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Will 2025 plastic packaging commitments ring hollow?

GreenBiz

In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.

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Cleantech Startup Clearflame Raises $30 Million for Heavy Duty Engine Decarbonization Solution

ESG Today

Cleantech startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced today that it has raised $30 million, with proceeds aimed at helping the company bring to market solutions to power heavy-duty engines with renewable fuels. Founded in 2016, Chicago-based ClearFlame’s patented technology enables heavy duty diesel engines to run on cleaner burning renewable liquid fuels.

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Episode 354: Dark anniversaries, risky business

GreenBiz

This week's episode features an interview with David Carlin, head of climate risk and TCFD for the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative.

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Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers

McKinsey Sustainabilty

In the modern workplace, middle managers face many challenges. A new survey finds three areas where organizations can better support their managers and help them accomplish more.

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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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In the kitchen: Innovations in residential food waste

GreenBiz

A relatively new entrant among those selling home gadgets for food waste, Mill keeps food in the system by feeding animals.

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Entrepreneur First CEO Matt Clifford on early stage talent investing

McKinsey Sustainabilty

One of Europe’s top talent investors talks about his unique approach to backing companies before they exist and how to find the “edge” in a potential founder.

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Biden proposed budget boosts funding for clean energy, permitting, efficiency programs

Utiliity Dive

The budget released Thursday includes $11.9 billion for Department of Energy climate and clean energy research, development, demonstration and deployment, a 20% hike over the FY 23 enacted amount.

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IoT news of the week for March 10, 2023

Stacey Higginbotham

Want to build a DIY Matter device? SparkFun has released a Thing Plus Matter board that has a Matter-certified module from Silicon Labs and includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread/Zigbee connectivity. The board will sell for $24.95 and is designed for prototyping future Matter products, but if you’re OK with building one for personal use and bypassing the notifications you’ll get about not having an authenticated device, then maybe this is also for you. ( SparkFun ) Z-Wave… it&#

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Morgan Stanley to Strengthen Deforestation Policies for Clients

ESG Today

Morgan Stanley has committed to strengthening its deforestation policies for clients in several agriculture and land-use sectors, according to environment and social-focused investor Green Century Funds, who had filed a proposal for the financial services firm’s 2023 AGM. Green Century said that it withdrew its proposal following the commitment from Morgan Stanley.

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ESG’s Fab Five

Chris Hall

Rajiv Jalim, Director of Solutions Engineering at FigBytes, highlights five essential ESG metrics to help investors track sustainability progress at portfolio companies. One of the most common questions I hear when I talk to private equity, venture capital firms and other ESG-centered investors is pretty basic: Where do I start?There are a puzzling array of hundreds of metrics these investors can use as key measuring sticks.

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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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EU Regulators to Conduct Financial System-Wide Climate Stress Test

ESG Today

“Go beyond the usual climate stress tests” The EU’s financial regulators will carry out a comprehensive system-wide analysis of the financial sector’s resilience to climate-related risks, and its ability to facilitate financing for Europe’s green transition under stress scenarios, according to a letter by European Commission Financial Stability, Financial Services, and the Capital Markets Union Director General John Berrigan.

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Evergy’s Minnesota Power Plant Produces 10MW of New Solar Energy

Environment + Energy Leader

Evergy has announced that its Hawthorn power plant is now home to 10 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy. The post Evergy’s Minnesota Power Plant Produces 10MW of New Solar Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Gender+

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Through the looking glass. Sometimes a lens isn’t wide enough to take in the entire landscape. On this. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Gender+ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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‘Welcome to ERCOT.’ Regulators approve city of Lubbock, Texas, shift to retail competition

Utiliity Dive

The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday authorized the move after a last-minute agreement was struck regarding the allocation of termination fee proceeds.

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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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Dig In to NetDevOps at Automation Developer Days, May 9-11

Cisco CSR

Secure your seat at Automation Developer Days in Stockholm – May 9-11 We are happy to announce that you can now register for Automation Developer Days !

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How digital tools could boost efficiency in African health systems

McKinsey Sustainabilty

By expanding their use of digital health tools, African health systems could realize up to 15 percent efficiency gains by 2030 and reinvest the savings to improve access and outcomes.

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EPA, DOE issue framework for maintaining grid reliability during energy transition

Utiliity Dive

The agencies will consider “short-term interventions” to address emerging reliability risks, according to the agreement released Thursday.

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Do Formal Savings Accounts Lead to Better Results for Low-Income Users?: Lessons from Two Customer-Centric Research Studies in Africa

James Militzer

The Savings Learning Lab was a six-year initiative that supported learning among Mastercard Foundation’s savings-focused financial inclusion programs across Africa. At the initiative’s close-out event last September, program partners Savings at the Frontier (SatF) and Scale2Save discussed two ways they researched the impact of formal savings accounts on the lives of low-income people.

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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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Existential threats to the iconic Nile River Delta

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Decades of poor environmental and water management turned the Nile River Delta from a unique ecological habitat in the Sahara to one of the largest polluted areas on the planet, with tens of millions of people and migrating birds at risk of exposure to water-borne contaminants.

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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 10, 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include a major industrial decarbonization project in Germany and carbon-capturing tequila in Mexico. Net Zero Economy In Canada this week, the financial industry regulator published a set of guidelines for banks, insurance companies and other regulated firms that will help them assess and disclose climate risks.

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Rutgers scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

A team of scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism -- a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth -- has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life.

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Community outreach and investment can help meet renewable industry’s worker demand, say labor experts

Utiliity Dive

“It's gone from a critical issue to ‘the business doesn't work unless we get this right,’” said one panelist during the American Council on Renewable Energy’s public policy forum.

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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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#StopWillow: Can the TikTok Campaign Stop the New Alaskan Oil Project?

Impakter

Impakter #StopWillow: Can the TikTok Campaign Stop the New Alaskan Oil Project? Climate activists are using TikTok to try to stop US President Joe Biden from approving the Willow Project, a decision expected in the coming days, and their posts are going viral. While the project would create thousands of new jobs, it would also unleash around 287 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and […] The post #StopWillow: Can the TikTok Campaign Stop the New Alaskan Oil Project?

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The Batteries You Are Familiar With Are Not The Ones Some Energy Providers Are Building

Energy Central

What is a kinetic battery? It is a technology that puts water, air, and masses of material in motion to make turbines turn and generators produce electricity. In this article, we look at four different kinetic battery technologies.

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Can utility regulators adopt Silicon Valley’s ‘fail fast’ approach? A new Connecticut program may tell

Utiliity Dive

While the pace of electric system transformation and technological innovation has increased rapidly over the last 15 years, regulatory structures have struggled to keep pace.

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Author Talks: IBM’s Ginni Rometty on leading with ‘good power’

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Ginni Rometty shares her strategies for managing conflict, finding growth in discomfort, and remaining grounded in ambition to make you proud of not only what you do, but how you do it.

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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.

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Gain Deeper Insights into your Cisco SD-WAN Deployments with NWPI

Cisco CSR

Imagine that you’ve built a house and invested time, money, and effort into it for a long time.

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Northern and southern resident orcas hunt differently, which may help explain the decline of southern orcas

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

In the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, southern resident orcas have experienced no net population growth since the 1970s, with just 73 left at the most recent count. But northern resident orcas, which have a similar diet, territory and social structure, have grown steadily, now numbering more than 300. A new study may help explain why: The two populations differ in how they hunt for salmon, their primary and preferred food source, a key difference that conservationists will have to take

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Gourmet food for the final frontier | Phnam Bagley

TEDxInnovations

What does an in-flight meal look like when you're traveling to Mars? Designer Phnam Bagley envisions a future where astronauts have nourishing, flavorful food reminiscent of home -- a giant leap from their current staple of "goop-in-a-bag." Learn more about her team's gourmet creations for galactic travel and how these innovations can improve life here on Earth.

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Surprising similarities in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Researchers have discovered artefacts produced by old world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools, which historically have been identified as intentionally made by early hominins. Until now, sharp-edged stone tools were thought to represent the onset of intentional stone tool production, one of the defining and unique characteristics of hominin evolution.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis