Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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Case study: How Prologis is turning the sustainability regulatory squeeze into opportunity

GreenBiz

Prologis, a logistics real estate company, is integrating ESG into its business strategy and decision-making by prioritizing team collaboration and investment in data systems.

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Shifting Priorities: How Sustainability and Decarbonization are Driving Modern Supply Chains

3BL Media

Supply chain operators have narrowed their focus on sustainability and decarbonization thanks to increasing market and regulatory pressures. According to Deloitte , “One of the hottest of the hot buttons for investors, customers, and regulators is better performance and disclosure related to a company’s climate impact.” Deloitte’s view is supported by a recent survey-driven report that DP World conducted in partnership with Supply Chain Dive’s studioID.

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Break Through the Noise: Investor and Media Perspectives on Crafting a Compelling Story

GreenBiz

Having a hard time getting investor and media attention? As more companies focus on climate tech, it’s becoming harder to stand out from the crowd. Hear expert advice from climate investors and journalists on how you can help your startup break through the noise. We’ll cover best practices for reaching out to media and investors with a pitch that will get attention.

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Research Reveals Technology and Digitalization Are Key to Leading a Sustainable Lifestyle to More Than Two-Thirds of Consumers

3BL Media

More than half of online shoppers use digital marketplaces dedicated to sustainable products, especially from Asian emerging markets One third of the respondents desire an app to get informed of sustainable lifestyles HANGZHOU, China, September 8, 2023 /3BL/ - More than two-third (71%) of consumers think technology and digitalization are key to enabling them to live a more sustainable lifestyle, while over a third (33%) desire apps to provide clearer information on how to live sustainably across

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Why circularity can’t be an exclusive club

GreenBiz

We need all voices to set the direction for the circular economy.

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Xfinity’s HBCU Fall Tour Opens Doors for the Next Generation of Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Creators

3BL Media

This year's tour will visit 11 HBCU campuses in communities Comcast serves, inspiring the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators. The event will connect students to career resources and tools and Black small business owners and entrepreneurs. It will also provide a platform to showcase stories about the positive impact HBCUs have had on higher education.

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Duke Energy Florida’s New Renewable Energy Certificates Program Offers Customers, Businesses More Options To Reach Their Sustainability Goals

3BL Media

Provides an easy way for Duke Energy customers to purchase renewable energy certificates (RECs) from local Florida generation Aims to reduce rates for all customers by generating revenue through the sale of the RECs ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., September 8, 2023 /3BL/ - Duke Energy Florida announced Clean Energy Impact , its newest renewable energy certificates (RECs) program, is now available to customers looking to achieve their sustainability goals and support local, renewable energy.

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Study reveals human destruction of global floodplains

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

A hydrologist's study provides a global estimate of human destruction of natural floodplains. The study can help guide future development in a way that can restore and conserve vital floodplain habitats that are critical to wildlife, water quality and reducing flood risk for people.

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Navigating Global ESG Reporting Standards

3BL Media

For the second installment in our Climate Week series, Mandi McReynolds is joined by global experts Eelco van der Enden, CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative, and Anna Nefedova, global ESG reporting leader at Deloitte. They walk us through the various global reporting standards and how they benefit the organizations that use them. Listen Now Looking for more?

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The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Utopia now. Burners are a resilient bunch. As they trickled back into normie life this week, many already. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Project Lemonade Receives $35,000 Grant from KeyBank

3BL Media

PORTLAND, Ore., September 8, 2023 /3BL/ — KeyBank has awarded a $35,000 grant to Project Lemonade’s L+EARN internship program, which provides foster youth with career and financial coaching, ongoing mentorship and connections to future job opportunities. The challenge of employment and financial stability impacts foster youth’s ability to feel safe, stable, and secure.

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New technologies for nuclear waste disposal: UK-Japan research collaboration kicks off

Envirotec Magazine

The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night. Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license ). A new research collaboration brings together researchers and industrialists from the UK and Japan to explore novel ways to detect and dispose of radioactive nuclear debris.

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Trombonist Turned Banker Finds Parallels Connecting With Audiences and Customers

3BL Media

Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog Before Mark Salatino was analyzing deposit trends and products for U.S. Bank , he was playing the trombone with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Rochester, New York. “I got involved in negotiating orchestra contracts and that made me realize maybe I wanted to do something more analytical in my life,” Salatino said, explaining his career shift after 14-years as a professional musician.

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IKEA Parent Ingka Launches its First Battery Storage Project to Support Clean Energy Goals

ESG Today

IKEA parent Ingka Group’s investment arm, Ingka Investments, announced the launch of Cameron Storage, its first-ever battery storage project, in partnership with renewable energy company Apex Clean Storage. According to the companies, the 16.4 MW project, co-located with Ingka’s 165 MW Cameron Wind Farm in Cameron County, Texas, will support the Texas power grid with increased reliability amid energy supply and demand fluctuations.

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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Viatris 2022 Sustainability Report: Building Foundations To Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

3BL Media

The Chief Human Relations Officer oversees DEI and reports to the CEO. The function provides quarterly updates to the Viatris Board of Directors. While our colleagues represent a multitude of geographies, experiences and cultures, we recognize we are early in our DEI journey. In 2022, we focused on identifying initial actions, building our strategy and setting in place the essential building blocks to advance DEI at Viatris.

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Earth’s Balance Sheet

Chris Hall

Natural capital accounting is critical to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources, says ex-Invesco strategy head Dr Henning Stein. Natural capital refers to the stock of renewable and non-renewable natural resources and ecosystems that provide various benefits to humans and the planet. It encompasses all the Earth’s natural assets, which not only have intrinsic value, but also play a vital role in supporting human well-being and economic activity.

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FedEx Matches Collin Morikawa’s Donation to World Central Kitchen

3BL Media

Every birdie that Collin Morikawa made during the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields benefitted relief efforts following the devastating wildfires in Maui. FedEx agreed to match Morikawa’s donation of $1,000 to World Central Kitchen for every birdie he made during the FedExCup Playoff event outside of Chicago. Collin has a personal connection to Maui and the Lahaina community as his grandparents previously owned a restaurant in Lahaina.

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Government support called for as single-use vape disposal quadruples to over 5 million per week

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Zeynep Demir Aslim / Shutterstock.com. The number of disposable single-use vapes thrown away has soared from 1.3 million to nearly 5 million per week, according to new research from not-for-profit group Material Focus. This is equivalent to 8 per second being thrown away – almost four times the number since the research was first conducted last year.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose and Tata Consultancy Services: Skills Development for the AI Era

3BL Media

NEW YORK, September 8, 2023 /3BL/ - There is huge growth in the creation and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but there is also a global shortage of workers with the skills and experience using the technology in order to be competitive. And while many believe that AI can automate tasks and increase efficiency in both education and business, youth and adults alike need to “own” the type of critical thinking that supports adapting to this important new technology.

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H2’s $1.6 billion raise signals growing investor and customer demand for green steel

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 8 – In one of the largest climate tech deals of the year, Sweden’s H2 Green Steel pulled in €1.5 billion. The post H2’s $1.6 billion raise signals growing investor and customer demand for green steel appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Commissioner Franz, Pano AI and T-Mobile Provide Update on How AI Tech and 5G Are Helping DNR Fight Wildfires

3BL Media

OLYMPIA and BELLEVUE, Wash., September 8, 2023 /3BL/ - Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz gave an update on how the Department of Natural Resources is using advanced AI technology that provides actionable intelligence to attack wildfires as soon as they start. Technology and cameras from Pano AI leveraging the T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) 5G network have enabled early detection and monitoring that has provided richer data on wildfires as they emerge.

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Driving Kenya's Future: The Roadmap to Electric Vehicle Adoption and Sustainable Urban Mobility

Energy Central

The new enthusiasm around EV in Kenya is a welcome move. However, the government should come up with regulations, legislations, and a policy framework that will incentivize EV use. The person nurturing this dream should think about the entire value chain and should have empirical data that will show how many jobs the initiative will create. Take, for example, the UK's mature regulatory.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Apple Backs California’s Proposed Emissions Reporting Rules

ESG Today

Tech giant Apple has expressed its support for proposed legislation in California that would require most large U.S. companies to disclose their full value chain greenhouse gas emissions, according to a letter the company sent to state Senator Scott Wiener. The legislation, California Senate Bill 253 (SB 253), introduced by Wiener earlier this year, would require companies with revenues greater than $1 billion that do business in California to report annually on their emissions from all scopes,

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Living with wildfire: How to protect more homes as fire risk rises in a warming climate

Environmental News Bits

by Justin Angle, University of Montana Humans have learned to fear wildfire. It can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities with toxic smoke. Wildfire is scary for good reason, and over a century of fire suppression efforts has conditioned people to expect wildland firefighters to snuff it out.

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Table salt could be the secret ingredient for better chemical recycling

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Researchers have shown that table salt outperforms other expensive catalysts being explored for the chemical recycling of polyolefin polymers, which account for 60% of plastic waste. The research shows that sodium chloride could provide a safe, inexpensive and reusable way to make plastics more recyclable. The team also showed that table salt and other catalysts could be used in the recycling of metallized plastic films -- like those used in potato chip bags -- which are currently not recyclable

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Invasive species cause billions of dollars in damage worldwide: 4 essential reads

Environmental News Bits

by Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation Invasive species – including plants, animals and fish – cause heavy damage to crops, wildlife and human health worldwide. Some prey on native species; other out-compete them for space and food or spread disease.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Euronext Launches New Sustainable Investment Tools, Publishes Issuer ESG Profiles on Website

ESG Today

European market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the launch of a series of ESG tools and sustainable finance-focused initiatives, including making issuers’ non-financial data available on its website. According to Euronext, the new initiatives will support its “Fit for 1.5°” climate commitment, which is based on the development of products and services that would help the company, its partners and clients, and the European economy curb the increase in global temperatures, and its “Grow

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The New Normal is Here with Secure Firewall 4200 Series and Threat Defense 7.4

Cisco CSR

What Time Is It? It’s been a minute since my last update on our network security strategy , but we have been busy building some awesome capabilities to enable true new-normal firewalling.

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North American mobility retail balances old and new for future success

McKinsey Sustainabilty

With the growth of e-mobility and younger consumers seeking high-tech convenience, nimble North American mobility-retail players are combining old and new offerings to stay competitive.

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Investing in the world’s poorest country

Financial Times: Moral Money

Also in today’s newsletter, Singapore’s central bank head calls for action on carbon pricing and blended finance

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.