GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Output of wind and solar smashes previous records in main grid, as renewable output hits new peaks in South Australia and Victoria, and gas posts a record low. The post Large scale wind and solar smash output records on main grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Caroline Vanderlip, founder and CEO of Re:Dish, dishes about corporate adoption of reusable food containers and what's next for the New York startup.

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Utiliity Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Security firm Dragos is now tracking 20 hacking groups targeting operational technology and industrial control systems, with a growing number focused on energy infrastructure.

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Greenwashing is accelerating in the auto industry. Here’s one way to slow it down.

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Impakter

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Impakter The Petrodollar Decouple: A Geopolitical Domino Effect Major energy and political shifts are reshaping the geopolitical landscape. The United States’ push in recent years to domesticate and increase its own oil production has engendered its natural corollary: US imports of oil from Saudi Arabia have been drying up. And China has stepped up to fill the position.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Currently, the company has around 150 hectares established in Southern Portugal to grow bamboo, which will then be sold as a low-footprint material for use across the textile, paper, construction, composite, and food sectors. The post Hive Energy Acquires Bamboo Plantation for Sustainable Packaging appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Cisco CSR

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When we think about today’s enterprise infrastructures, at their core, they comprise a few elements: multiple public clouds (primarily, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle C… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Ground floor. Investors like to inflate their importance. But they’d be nowhere without the often-irrational optimism of the. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Founders appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Scientists have demonstrated that the bacterium Escherichia coli – often associated with contaminated food – can be used as part of a system to detect heavy metal contamination in water. E. coli exhibits a biochemical response in the presence of metal ions, a slight change that researchers – from the University of California, Irvine – say they were able to observe with chemically assembled gold nanoparticle optical sensors.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

[link] ImpactAlpha. Feb. 24 – “A labor market where workers have more opportunities and have more power and have more leverage is a. The post Policymaking for workers and communities in the Year of the ‘S’ (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Krisztina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, outlines three key areas that show great potential to improve outcomes at scale for people and the planet. 2022 was a landmark year for impact investing. For the first time, impact assets under management crossed the US$1 trillion threshold, according to data from the Global Impact Investing Network.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

On Feb. 23, Bridgestone announced significant progress in its efforts to incorporate more sustainable and bio-circular materials into the 2023 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season. The post IndyCar Goes Green with Bridgestone’s Sustainable Firehawk Race Tires appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Utiliity Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

State leaders say diverse priorities have prompted them to coordinate with the Biden administration to accelerate the deployment of floating offshore wind projects in the U.S.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Typical high efficiency particulate air filters, such as as HEPA filters, can capture the small particles but aren’t able to capture gas molecules. An air filter made out of corn protein instead of petroleum products can concurrently capture small particulates as well as toxic chemicals like formaldehyde that current air filters can’t, according to the group behind it.

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Impakter

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Impakter Shattering Consensus? James Webb Telescope Discovers Galaxies Science Says Shouldn’t Exist Astronomers at the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered potentially “Universe Breaking” ancient galaxies, which, until now, widely accepted science said couldn’t exist. The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist [link] pic.twitter.com/nE1kThLiyr — SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) February 22, 2023 Six galaxies estimated to have been present b

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Expanded capabilities will improve traditional clinical waste hierarchy positions and can lower the carbon emissions by around 70% compared to existing services Veolia says it has expanded its medical waste management capabilities with the aim of addressing key issues for the healthcare sector and the NHS. The services will help organisations to make further progress on their net-zero ambitions through compliant optimised handling, management and treatment of waste streams that fall under the or

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Iancu Damarus, Responsible Investment Associate, Fulcrum Asset Management, highlights ongoing shifts in the nature of resolutions and voting by investors. Companies’ general meetings have in recent years seen a sea-change in the breadth of issues investors are asked to opine on. Going beyond procedural problems such as appointing of auditors and the issuance of shares, topics such as ending fossil fuel financing, conducting a ‘racial equity audit’ or quantifying the monetary benefits of di

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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

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN urged the world’s most developed nations last week to increase their financial support by $500 billion each year. The post UN Calls for SDG Stimulus For Climate Action in Developing Countries appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE Group, the world’s largest manager of commercial buildings, announced the appointment of Robert Bernard as Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President, Client Sustainability Solutions. In his new role, Bernard will be responsible for driving enterprise-wide strategies strengthening CBRE’s suite of sustainability services for clients, and for strategies enabling the firm to achieve its carbon reduction and sustainability goals.

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Alternative Energy Mag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dragonfly IntelLigence™ technology will provide Battle Born Batteries with reliable communication capabilities via unique mesh network connectivity, enabling accurate remote monitoring for entire lithium battery banks via the Dragonfly Energy Mobile App. Customers can ensure they will have power when they need it, with full visibility into the status of their power system based on the ability to monitor voltage, temperature, current load, battery health, system balance and more.

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Utiliity Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

American Electric Power expects to make a decision before July on whether it will sell AEP Energy, its competitive retail energy business, company officials said Thursday.

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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.

ESG Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Proposed rules on the use of ESG or sustainability-related terms in the names of investment funds unveiled by EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will not fulfil their primary objective of protecting investors from greenwashing risk, according to Europe’s central investment industry trade association, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the fourth episode of The Quarterly Interview: Provocations to Ponder, Ann Harrison, dean of the Haas School of Business, talks about what it takes to develop leaders for the modern era, and what makes for a great business education today.

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Utiliity Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Demonstration projects could be built at two coal-fired power plants, two gas-fired plants and two industrial facilities.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A boom in adoption of new technologies could help fuel innovation and cost reduction, but the industry must navigate several issues to deliver on the full promise of xRAN.

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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.

Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA) has published guidance on legal documentation for US sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), including comments on 'sleeping' SLLs and guidance on the role of a sustainability coordinator.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has remained a mystery, but new research suggests it evolved in nonavian dinosaurs. The finding comes from statistical analyses of arm joints preserved in fossils and helps fill some gaps in knowledge about the origin of bird flight.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The need for board-level strategic conversations on geopolitical risk is urgent.

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Alternative Energy Mag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As per Precedence Research, the global hydrogen generation market will reach at USD 219.2 billion by 2030 and registering growth at a CAGR of 5.4% from 2022 to 2030.

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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.