GreenBiz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

With the new year here, it’s time for businesses to step out of their comfort zones and embrace bold, even audacious, goals. The future demands leaders who are willing to reimagine not only what they do, but also how they do it. Setting Massive Goals The first step is setting goals that may seem beyond […] The post New Year, New Aspirations: Embracing Bold Changes for a Sustainable Future appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 2, 2024

New statewide EV infrastructure incentives will give New York City's charging capacity a significant boost.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

Combined Organization will Establish a New International NGO to Continue to Advance Sustainability through its Corporate Members with Innovative Solutions, Collaborations and Thought Leadership New NGO will Deliver Meaningful Private Sector Contributions – from Operations to the C-Suite – Through Science-based Approaches in Nature, Water, Climate Resilience and Social Impact WASHINGTON, January 2, 2024 /3BL/ - Two of the leading NGOs working with business on sustainability and nature programming

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Stacy Kauk argues it’s worth paying more for credits based on emissions removal than emissions avoidance.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

New NGO will Deliver Meaningful Private Sector Contributions – from Operations to the C-Suite – Through Science-based Approaches in Nature, Water, Climate Resilience and Social Impact WASHINGTON, January 2, 2024 /3BL/ – Two of the leading NGOs working with business on sustainability and nature programming, the World Environment Center (WEC) and the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) have entered into a memorandum of intent (MOI) to combine the two organizations.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lenovo announced it has received its highest score in the annual Workplace Pride Global Benchmark, a comprehensive assessment of international employers’ LGBTIQ+ policies and practices. Lenovo scored 51.55%, marking a Year-on-Year improvement of 7.5%. Launched in 2014, the Global Benchmark provides participants with concrete and tangible actions to ensure their workplaces are fully inclusive for LGBTIQ+ people.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

I am often asked about the most significant challenge GPM faces when explaining the value of sustainable project management. This question frequently comes from CFOs who have yet to embrace the benefits of sustainable practices beyond mere compliance with regulatory or stakeholder demands. In this post, I aim at a favorite antagonist from a bygone […] The post Balancing Value: From Friedman’s Metrics to Purpose-Driven Impact appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sensi Graves has made a splash in the swimwear industry, not just for her innovative swimwear but for her commitment to empowering women to embrace their own journey of self-belief. Sensi Graves Swim sells sustainable swimwear that women can actually be active in. While her business started in 2012, Graves' ambition to own a business was cultivated from a young age.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Human culture has evolved to allow humans to extract resources and helped us expand to dominate the biosphere. But the same evolutionary processes may counteract efforts to solve new global environmental threats like climate change, according to a new study. Tackling the climate crisis will require worldwide regulatory, technical and economic systems supported by strong global cooperation.

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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.

3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

This month, American Airlines partnered with the Gary Sinise Foundation for the annual Snowball Express event that honors those who have lost a loved one while serving in our nation’s military. This year for the first time, the event was held over the course of two weeks, expanding the participants to include families of fallen first responders. American donated charter aircraft and tickets on already-scheduled flights to fly almost 3,000 participants from all over the world to Orlando, Florida,

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Promoting climate-friendly behaviors will be more successful in societies where everyone has the capacity: financially, physically, and time-wise, to make changes.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

​The latest episode of The Sustainable Finance Podcast is now live. This is the sixth instalment in a series of episodes sponsored by Acre. If you’re not yet familiar with Paul Ellis and The Sustainable Finance Podcast, it boasts a series of interviews with sustainable finance experts from top companies and global organizations like Schroders, FTSE Russel, The London Stock Exchange Group, Gitterman Wealth Management, and many more.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 2, 2024

Making an effective exit from leadership is critical both to the organization’s future and the CEO’s legacy. Here is how the world’s best CEOs approach that transition.

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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

It will be a beautiful building for beautiful people. Located in the heart of Edmonton, Alberta, an abandoned building will be transformed into King Thunderbird Centre , a state-of-the-art, climate-resilient facility to support people experiencing poverty and homelessness in the city’s downtown core. “When people are exhausted, when they’re hungry or they're living on the streets, the design of a facility can have a significant impact on their ability to get the services they need,” says Laurel

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

In Hawaii and across much of Oceania, Pacific Islanders celebrate the connections between their islands and the ocean that surrounds them.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

Every year, the technology industry flock to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where they unveil their breakthrough innovation and explore the challenges, opportunities, and policies shaping the future of tech. As the automotive and technology industries become more entwined, it is no surprise that some of the most exciting technologies unleashed during this four-day event are coming out of the auto space.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) announced the acquisition of Greece-based renewable energy company Enel Green Power Hellas from Enel Group for a total equity consideration of approximately €250 million. Launched by Enel Group in 2008, Enel Green Power Hellas develops and operates renewable energy projects in Greece, with a portfolio in of 482 MW of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower projects in operation, and another 84 MW of solar projects under construction.

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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

3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the ever-evolving business landscape, the state of purpose has faced significant challenges over the past year, many that have led to troubling ramifications. The politicization of the term “ESG” has caused some companies to scale back their sustainability investments. An increasing number of DEI commitments and positions have also been reduced. And tensions between countries and political groups around the world continue to grow.

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Caux Round Table

JANUARY 2, 2024

Happy New Year! Here’s the December issue of Pegasus. In this edition, we include an article by guest author Richard D. Van Scotter on college sports and the demise of the academy. Next, Michael Hartoonian asks what do we mean by justice? We also include some cartoons for your viewing pleasure. Lastly, we briefly introduce an upcoming special issue of Pegasus on American dysphoria, which will be out in early 2024.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

India-based renewable energy developer and operator Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) announced the completion of a joint venture with French energy giant TotalEnergies, including a $300 million investment by TotalEnergies for a 50% stake in a portfolio of more than 1 GW of solar and wind projects. Initially announced in September 2023, the new JV comes as India continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy, following a series of 2030 climate commitments set by the government in 2022

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year -- a decline at the ocean's edge that well outpaces global sea level rise, confirms new research. Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid 'subsidence,' or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations,

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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.

Chris Hall

JANUARY 2, 2024

Efforts to increase UK social infrastructure investment in 2024 require more detail from the government and more knowledge among investors. The UK faces a significant underspend across education, housing and healthcare, which could leave society and individual citizens “unsafe” and vulnerable to “extremely worrying” disparities in health and wellbeing.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chemists found a way to use electricity to boost a type of chemical reaction often used in synthesizing new candidates for pharmaceutical drugs. The research is an advance in the field of electrochemistry and shows a path forward to designing and controlling reactions -- and making them more sustainable.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 2, 2024

When analysts show you charts of the energy transition over time, such as percentages of renewable energy, EV sales, or peak oil production, have you notice how future years are a smooth curve while past years are a zigzag? Do you really think this will happen? An industry transition is never smooth. It’s like riding a rickety roller coaster in the dark, with heart-stopping drops.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa need to diversify away from growing maize and switch to crops that are resilient to climate change and supply enough key micronutrients for the population, according to a major research study. Maize is a staple crop across the region -- where it is grown and consumed in vast quantities.

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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.

McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

Wildfires create compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are formed in the combustion process at high temperatures. These compounds are highly toxic. New research examined how long harmful chemicals found in wildfire smoke can persist and the most effective ways to remove them with everyday household cleaners.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 2, 2024

The World Resource Institute is like a dog with a bone. In this case the bone is the notion that global warming can still be limited to 1.5 degrees C. We can only hope that going beyond that limit doesn’t permanently damage the environment, because beyond it we will go. The State of Climate Action 2023 report offers 42 progress benchmarks. Sadly, only one benchmark is on track: the.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2024

A recent study assessed the perspectives of 76 diverse South Florida climate adaptation professionals. A new study explores the expectations and concerns of practitioners from the private sector, community-based organizations, and government agencies about the region's ability to adapt in the face of increasing sea level rise and diverse consequences for where people live and move, also known as climate mobility.

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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.