3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2022

Latest innovation in hi-tech and sustainable glass manufacturing. The production facility is also expected to set new standards in sustainable glass manufacturing. This new facility in Warren County will create great job opportunities for our residents and bring innovative new technology to Kentucky’s manufacturing sector.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Carbon Tracker surveyed companies from the fossil fuel, mining, manufacturing, automotive and technology sectors that are targeted for engagement by the investor-led Climate Action 100+ initiative. She added: “Investors may choose not to divest. Start penalising auditors”. They have to make that decision themselves.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Divestment from Russian investments was a complex affair and an incomplete one. New research finds that many major firms are sending mixed messages on their withdrawal, while reports elsewhere suggest firms including weapons manufacturers continue to evade sanctions.

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Negative Screening Supply Chains Supply Chain Divestment 52

3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

Process emissions produced by manufacturing or production. Coca-Cola HBC Industry: Beverage manufacturing Headquarters: Switzerland. Mobile emissions from company fleet vehicles. Stationary emissions from on-site heating fuels. Fugitive emissions like leaking refrigeration or air conditioning units. Electricity.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Electric shock – 2024 looks set to be a competitive and challenging one for Tesla, the pioneering electric vehicle manufacturer, led by Elon Musk, who now also splits his time between social media and space transport and communications interests.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

This included goods made outside the EU using forced labour, as well as products manufactured in the EU containing parts from forced labour abroad. More than six million people in forced labour engaged in industrial sectors, including mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and utilities. million in 2016.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. A moral imperative. Our future can be coal-free.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The transaction includes the divestment of Bayer’s West Sacramento Biologics Research & Development site, and its internal discovery and lead optimization platform. Ginkgo has also actively supported a number of COVID-19 response efforts, including K-12 pooled testing, vaccine manufacturing optimization and therapeutics discovery.

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Development Divestment Manufacturing 130

Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

This included goods made outside the EU using forced labour, as well as products manufactured in the EU containing parts from forced labour abroad. More than 6 million people in forced labour engaged in industry sector activities, including mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and utilities. million in 2016.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Divestment Manufacturing 59

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It contrasted the negative performance against benchmarks resulting from divestment from fossil fuel firms with the positive relative returns achieved by funds not exposed to the sector in Q1 2020. How to exercise greater positive influence. A third possible pitfall is described as “undermining climate objectives”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2023

The fashion industry alone represents 4% of global freshwater extraction as the resource is required for each step of its manufacturing from growing cotton for clothes, to dyeing fabrics, and treating the final product. The complex and potentially deadly nature of the world’s water crisis is being worsened by industry.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

In the US, the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (TSCA) came into effect at the beginning of 2012 and applies to retail sellers and manufacturers that do business in the state of California and whose annual gross revenue exceeds US$100 million.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Manufacturing Corporate Social Responsibility 98

Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

Progress and limitations For some focus list companies, the failure to heed engagement efforts by investors to make good on their net zero commitments leaves them open to the threat of divestment.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” Although they underperformed the MSCI ACWI broad market index, which grew 114.4%, the Clean200 trounced the key index of global fossil fuel companies (the MSCI ACWI/Energy Index), which gained only 64.5%

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Manufacturing Negative Screening Divestment Smart Buildings 308

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Asset owners are increasingly aware that decarbonsing their portfolios through divestment does not necessarily reduce CO2 emissions in the real world, meaning that many are open to extending or escalating engagement even when progress is frustratingly slow. Impact through stewardship.

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Furniture manufacturer and retailer IKEA has launched several resale pilots in the last few years. These regulations help ensure that the manufacturer of a product is responsible for its ultimate recycling, reuse, or disposal. Rental, repair, and resale models are also gaining ground in the retail industry. Taking Responsibility.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Along with the publication of the 50-state plans in 2015 was an additional paper that documented how the 100% WWS model could be applied to keep the electric grid stable when all energy needs (not just electricity generation), including transportation, heating and cooling, manufacturing and power storage, were powered by WWS.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In addition, the Clean200 excludes weapons companies, including major military arms manufacturers found on the SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services list, as well as cluster munitions, nuclear weapons, and civilian firearm manufacturers screened on As You Sow ’s Weapon Free Funds. Source: CK) 1. Source: CK) 1.

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Net Zero Negative Screening Divestment Manufacturing 360

Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It has completely divested the fast fashion sector over its poor record on sustainability and the payment of decent wages but maintains engagement through PLWF. “We speak through the platform to several supply chain actors,” says Schmidt.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Banking Manufacturing 98

Renewable Energy World

JULY 7, 2021

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) instructing ports of entry to detain shipments containing “silica-based materials” that are “derived from or produced using” product manufactured by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. or provide evidence demonstrating that the goods were not manufactured with forced labor.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Manufacturing Divestment 90

Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Oil and gas major Shell is under increasing pressure ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) on 23 May, with asset owners like PGGM and the Church of England Pensions Board announcing their support for a shareholder proposal calling for the company to align its Scope 3 emissions target with the Paris Agreement. Car manufacturer Toyota is facing (..)

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In Vayres, the heat is used to pre-heat recycled glass – an important raw material in glass manufacturing – which in turn reduces energy consumption manufacturing process. The heat recovered from the Reims plant is used in domestic homes in the local community. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Decarbonize Divestment 147

ESG Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The proposals were voted down by the Wyoming House of Representatives Appropriation Committee, which unanimously recommended not passing both bills. The post Wyoming Joins List of States Rejecting Anti-ESG Measures appeared first on ESG Today.

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Divestment Banking Manufacturing 125

3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The divestment movement will wane. The US is poised for a breakout year due to the combination of new EV manufacturing capacity and a refreshed federal tax credit but will still lag Europe and China. Leaders will seek ways finance can really affect the transition, not just associate with the positive. Energy Storage – Pricey Metals.

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3BL Media

APRIL 7, 2022

Value chains are global and as such, investors have the unique power to hold companies accountable for child labor practices, environmental degradation and poor governance through divestment or the funding of competitors.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

Take two car manufacturers, one making its own tyres while the other outsources to a tyre manufacturer. Martindale adds: “That would give us the confidence in investing in a product that seeks to achieve positive change rather than simply divesting from high polluting companies.”.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This can be far easier at the commodities level than at the company level, which often degenerates into a complex jurisdictional or commodity divestment discussion that shuts doors rather than opens them. Divestment hasn’t worked as a theory of change and for large investors never could work once Scope 3 emissions were accounted for.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And the mayors of 12 cities — representing 36 million residents — announced their plans to divest from fossil fuels. The RE100 , which represents more than 260 companies committed to using 100 percent renewable power, added new signatories including Intel , ASICS (the apparel company), pharma firm Sanofi and manufacturers SKF and VELUX. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. Finding herself the only Black person in the student divestment group, everything clicked. "I

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sectoral sanctions could be expanded to cover additional transactions within these three sectors or they could target other industries, such as commodities (beyond oil and gas) or manufacturing. These sanctions could also be deployed in tandem with list-based sanctions. Sovereign Debt Restrictions U.S.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Wiener notes how members of California’s Assembly claimed to calculate Scope 3, a supermarket like US’ Target, which sells grills, would have to call the grill manufacturer and get a list of everyone who bought it from their stores, call them up, and find out how often they’re using the grill.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

In November 2022, Dutch pension funds resisted a call to increase investments in weapons manufacturers. Many investors also have weapons-focused exclusions enshrined in their investment policies. Europe’s defence industry has also lobbied hard to persuade officials to consider weapons investment as a sustainable economic activity.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 3, 2022

Opinion | Republicans Can Stop ESG Political Bias In Pence’s MAGA view of the world, “leftists” have “manufactured” this whole ESG thing, somehow convincing the world’s largest asset managers to go along, “to destroy public companies from within.” “A Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy? —?—?—?—?—

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Steven Mintz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Some lawmakers bought stock in remote-work technology, telemedicine companies, pharmaceutical makers currently developing potential vaccines, car manufacturers that have shifted to making ventilators for coronavirus patients, and alcohol producers that started making hand sanitizer during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Divestment Manufacturing Development 98

Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As I write this, Tesla stock has soared for the second day straight to over $900. Even as someone who has become more bullish on the stock thanks to my research, I'll be the first to tell you that I can't honestly say that I understand why this movement is happening all at once and so suddenly, nor does it seem that anyone else does.

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