ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Investee companies will span sectors ranging from circular economy, renewable energies, and energy storage and efficiency, to transport and mobility, smart buildings, cities and grid, and hydrogen. Innovation is critical to helping achieve net zero by 2050.

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ESG Today

JULY 21, 2022

Real estate technology-focused venture capital firm Fifth Wall announced today the $500 million close of its inaugural Climate Fund, aimed at investing in solutions to decarbonize the global real estate industry.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we emerge, we are learning how to build the capability to truly understand, qualitatively and quantitatively, our communities’ vulnerabilities against a much broader set of scenarios. In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. Devan Tracy (2018).

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ESG Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Last year, SBTi tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will soon only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C C warming ambition, as required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 26, 2023

million in loans it gave to 15 startups focused on climate change. JLL Foundation has issued its first-annual report, discussing the $2.6

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 21, 2022

Sessions held at the DesignBUILD Theatre, the Design Construction Week Theatre and The Smart Buildings Theatre will be held for free at the MCEC from 10–12 May. How to make existing buildings fit for the future : This session proposes a fitness regime for buildings for a climate-changed future.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Now more than ever, there is a pressing urgency to truly understand the very real effects of climate change, engage in current dialogues , and take steps to slow it. These efforts have helped T-Mobile earn an A- for our 2021 CDP Climate Change Disclosures , and JUST Capital once again named us the #1 company in U.S.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Understanding the interoperability of a building’s systems allows for energy-optimized and sustainable outcomes at scale. Back at Penn1, Cisco’s Smart Buildings Studio, team lead Bob Cicero lays out a strategy to converge lights, shades, blinds, HVAC, and more to PoE to drive massive energy savings by sharing data.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 14, 2023

Delaying decarbonisation Respondents further cite concerns that energy pricing and insecurity could delay progress on climate change, with meeting carbon reduction commitments currently considered less of a priority than reducing energy costs. To find out more about ABB and its solutions, visit Sustainability in Electrification.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 26, 2022

Understanding the interoperability of a building’s systems allows for energy-optimized and sustainable outcomes at scale. Back at Penn1, Cisco’s Smart Buildings Studio, team lead Bob Cicero lays out a strategy to converge lights, shades, blinds, HVAC, and more to PoE to drive massive energy savings by sharing data.

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Cisco CSR

JUNE 9, 2022

Sustainability in Smart Buildings. With the New York City legislation Local Law 97 that requires an 80% carbon reduction by 2050, it is important that we stay ahead-of-the-curve and provide models that can be replicated as we work together to fight climate change.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead of billions of data points, we are dealing with billions of emissions sources and billions of humans impacted by climate change. Scaling up climate-smart buildings was only possible because of the collaborative relationships fostered by GBPN. Knowledge exchange must be reciprocal.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

of Energy is backing 10 energy efficiency pilot p rojects that aim to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into resilient smart buildings. DOE is providing $61 million for the "Connected Communities" program, which will equip buildings with smart controls, sensors, and analytics to reduce energy use, costs, and emissions.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And while it will take seeing a level of decline of this magnitude every year if we are to make good on our mandate to mitigate climate change, we can’t continue to shutter the economy as a strategy to achieve this goal. The space constantly evaluates and optimizes indoor air flow by using more than 1,600 air quality sensors.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

The cohort consists of sustainable agriculture companies focused on mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change on global food systems. "In Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced today it selected seven startups to participate in the program’s 12th cohort.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 20, 2023

. — Co-authored by Marisol Palmero, Esther Roure Vila , and Snezana Mitrovic Co-author Esther Roure Vila , Sustainability Lead, Cisco CX EMEA Sustainability is broadly recognized as not just an urgent need to combat climate change and protect the environment but also a business driver and digital transformation accelerator.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

Businesses around the world are continuing to focus on sustainability in the race to net zero carbon emissions, and building construction and operations are critical areas where Australia can make significant contributions.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of ‘a rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.’ working together, the Telco industry is driving positive change when it comes to tackling the biggest climate challenges – like supporting the increase in availability of renewable energy.By

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

On top of that is the profound, existential threat of climate change. . Climate change impacts including extreme heat and flooding also disproportionately affect people of color. . Businesses play a critical role in addressing the converging crises of climate change, public health and widening economic disparities. .

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2022

It’s a concept that turns electric vehicles from consumers of electricity to suppliers as well, by enabling them to give power back to the grid, or even to a smart building. Smart buildings or business parks, with their own microgrids driven by renewable sources like wind or solar, could be another important application.

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Cisco CSR

MAY 16, 2022

The focus has been on areas where we believe we can make the most significant impact on the environment: addressing climate change, driving a circular economy, and being responsible stewards of the planet’s limited resources. We have been nurturing the foundational technology behind our smart building solution for over ten years.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2022

The European Union spent decades negotiating decarbonization strategies that were aggressive by international standards but still mild and equivocal compared to what the science of climate change demands. But the world has changed fundamentally, and Canada can no longer expect to thrive if we’re still partying like it’s 1922. .

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 13, 2022

If even 1/3 of that loss is eliminated with this solution, it could help drought-stricken regions mitigate the impacts of climate change. 1 st Place – Energy efficiency in smart buildings. About 40% of the world’s CO2 emission comes from buildings and more than 30% of the energy is wasted in buildings.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In spring 2021, The Alliance Center installed Fermata Energy’s V2X vehicle charging system at its historic building in Denver’s Lower Downtown (LoDo) neighborhood to connect EVs, grid electrification, and smart building technologies.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The GSA announced the award of the $117 million Utility Energy Service Contract, which is part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Climate Smart Buildings Initiative. The improvements are expected to enhance building performance and efficiency, while reducing operating costs by approximately 45%.

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Cisco CSR

JUNE 6, 2022

And in 2008, Al Gore set a moonshot on climate change – a challenge to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other renewable energy sources within 10 years. Please also look for sustainability-themed blogs from different Cisco organizations who build compute, cloud, collaboration, and networking solutions.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our mission is to shine a light on the heroes of the battle against climate change,” notes report co-author Toby Heaps, CEO of Corporate Knights. The ranking excludes firms involved in industries such as fossil fuels, deforestation, prisons, weapons and tobacco – as well as companies that engage in blocking climate policies.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

Fifteen of the Future 50 companies produce sustainable consumer and business products – including seven companies involved in plant-based foods and three building electric vehicles domestically. Then she launched a climate consulting firm, which she later turned into tech startup Manifest Climate.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

The Climate Change Agreement, under which businesses receive a discount on their energy bills if efficiency targets are met, has been renewed until 2025. Of the more than 18,500 companies disclosing to CDP in 2022, roughly 7,000 said that they engaged their suppliers on climate change issues. million homes. .

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The global fight against climate change is gradually gaining momentum, with countries like Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, and the EU reaffirming commitment to the Paris Agreement, and more than 80 mayors in the US confirming that they will continue with agreed guidelines.

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