3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2024

A bold embrace of technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to reconfigure their supply chains. According to the 2024 Trade in Transition study , a growing belief that technology will transform the efficiency and resilience of supply chains in tandem with agile trade strategies is the primary driver of optimism for 2024.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. This will have a tremendous impact on nature that, in turn, will affect businesses and the global economy. As with climate-related risks, nature-related risks need to be better understood and acted upon. Climate Change.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Glasgow Climate Pact made clear that the days of coal and fossil fuels are numbered, that carbon markets are here to stay, and that deforestation must come to an end. And as we head into 2022, climate change must be a top priority for companies around the world. With supply-chain emissions on average 11.4

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Such restrictions can create barriers and hinder economic growth, affecting supply chains and market access. This escalation of conflict has a profound impact on the global economy, with conflict estimated to have a 12.9 percent impact on global GDP.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

seeking to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, by halving per capita food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains. We will not tackle climate change if we don’t fix our broken food system, and not least food waste.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By: Emma Cutler, Senior Analyst, Verdantix News of climate change- and El Nino-driven drought slowing traffic in the Panama Canal hit headlines last week. Where the news will likely never appear, however, is firms’ own reporting, even for those that experience significant losses, at least not as a climate-related loss.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Similarly, nearly half (48%) of survey respondents said that they expect that climate change will cause the majority of operational disruptions over the next decade, and 61% reported that the lack of sustainable practices and processes will pose a long-term existential risk for their organizations. Click here to access the survey.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. Liz Morrison. Wed, 06/30/2021 - 02:00. The goal: eliminate the use of the combustion engine in personal vehicles and the trucking industry by 2050.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. In Taiwan, where I live and work, a large percentage of companies occupy an important position in the global economy as major suppliers of goods across the industrial spectrum. José Miguel Salazar. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Finance professionals make up a fraction of the global population but are positioned to make and incentivize decisions that can shape the trajectory of the global economy," observed Ogechukwu Anyene, energy consulting manager at PowerAdvocate, who was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at GreenBiz Group’s inaugural GreenFin event.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

Now, almost 2,900 are on track to reach the targets set by SBTi for how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent the worst effects of climate change. The Race Is On. I have witnessed how sustainability is top of mind not only in business engagements but also in my personal life.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As the world continued to experience the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including global supply chain disruptions, resource shortages, employment challenges and inflation – these have not been easy times. In 2021, 50 billion cartons, equivalent to 1.2

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We have a global responsibility to solve the climate crisis together. We see the growth of an increasingly digital and global economy, keeping us connected through ecosystems of financial interdependence. Developing nations who often contribute the least to climate change bear the brunt of its impact.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping.

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3BL Media

APRIL 9, 2024

There has been a documented 69% decrease in monitored global wildlife populations since 1970, and factors like habitat loss, overexploitation of nature, invasive species, disease and climate change are all drivers for biodiversity loss worldwide.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

But the quality of the disclosures is critical in meeting the existential challenge of climate change. There are, of course, two sides of climate action that must be addressed: mitigation (usually by emissions reductions) and adaptation. Climate Change. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2024

A growing body of research warns that the financial sector is underestimating the risks of Earth’s system tipping points – how should it respond? The gap between the science of climate change and the emerging tools aimed at helping the financial sector manage concomitant risks is the subject of intensifying debate.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2024

Among the factors that could cause our actual results and future actions to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements are: Adverse changes in the global or regional general business, political, and economic conditions, including the impact of continuing uncertainty and instability of certain countries, man-made or natural (..)

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By: Bruno Sarda, TMT Climate Change & Sustainability Services Leader, Ernst & Young LLP Leaders from across the globe recently reconvened for the World Economic Forum’s 53rd annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and covered everything from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, to the state of the global economy and more.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 12, 2023

However, the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also left no doubt that feasible, effective, and low-cost options exist to deeply reduce emissions now. As corporate customers face increasing scrutiny over their supply chain emissions, businesses of all sizes must become more transparent.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Originally published on about.bnef.com BloombergNEF (BNEF) announced the winners of its 2024 Pioneers award, recognizing 11 early-stage companies working to introduce technologies and products that will accelerate global decarbonization and halt climate change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Climate Action Summit and has become a global symbol of environmental activism. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here " by Hope Jahren.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

climate action and investments, as public and private sector leaders raise their ambition, deliver on commitments, implement policies to capitalize on the opportunities in the necessary transition to a zero emissions future, and ensure public finance to support adaptation and resilience for developing nations. November 3, 2022 /3BL Media/ -

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2022

For businesses, that includes our direct operations, and it also includes Scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions that result from a company’s supply chains and use of its products), which are an order of magnitude larger. If the answer is no, we need to make it yes everywhere we have influence. What is the right speed?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nature underpins societal wellbeing by providing basic life support services and material goods such as soil, air, water, food, fuel, and fibre 1 , so the impacts of nature loss are wide-reaching and threaten the foundations of our global economies, livelihoods, and food systems 2,3.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. While investments in nature-based solutions cannot be a substitute for deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy, they can contribute to the required pace and scale of climate change mitigation and adaptation, concludes the report.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A court forced Shell to reduce emissions, an activist investor forced ExxonMobil to replace three board members better suited to fight climate change, and Chevron shareholders voted against their board to achieve faster-cut carbon emissions. Complex Supply Chains designed to run efficiently failed under the pandemic.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the coming two weeks, business, government, and civil society will convene in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for the COP27 Climate Summit, to align on climate policies and actions needed to decarbonize the global economy. Governments and corporations must reform policy and support to prevent small businesses from suffering.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2023

We need to halve emissions by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C C and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Decarbonizing supply chains alone will not be enough to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Ahead of COP28, over 125 businesses from across industries and regions call on national governments to address the primary cause of climate change: burning fossil fuels. I urge other companies to sign and show governments and heads of government going to COP28 that they support immediate and decisive climate action.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Ben McEwen, C limate A nalyst at Sarasin & Partners , outlines how capital markets continue to misprice climate -related risks due to the uncertainty involved in climate change analysis. Governments are increasingly waking up to what is at stake, making policy responses that force change a near inevitability.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A lack of infrastructure and inadequate funding have been identified as the biggest barriers to using green hydrogen as an enabler of the energy transition and the decarbonization of the global economy. The three companies seek to use clean hydrogen to achieve their 2050 carbon-neutral targets, as well as help fight climate change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. Climate Change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—the world is not on track to meet its climate goals. The frequency of catastrophic heatwaves, flooding and droughts continues to have an increasingly deadly and devastating impact on all parts of society—including the global economy. The latest National Climate Assessment found the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To increase the role played by offshore wind energy in mitigating climate change, deployment needs to ramp up across the globe. A new roadmap launched by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the UN Global Compact aims to achieve that goal. Read more: A supply chain is born: Can the U.S.

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