GreenBiz

JANUARY 5, 2024

H&M will co-invest in a project it hopes will supply 40% of the country’s power.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and coal power fell. The post Drop in coal power sends German emissions to lowest level in 70 years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

To mark its annual Season of Giving program, AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, provided relief to families across Southern California by serving more than a thousand meals and supporting over 30 local non-profit organizations. Throughout the months of November and December, nearly 600 AEG employees volunteered their time to serve meals to local families and collected toys and other goods to help families in need.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ? The Call: Compensating impact fund managers for… impact. To explore the hows and whys (and. The post The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

INSPIRE is the perfect word to describe Safeway Store Director Rob Jones. Rob has been with Albertsons Companies for 41 years and is a champion for his community in Lake Stevens, WA. He was recently spotlighted in Providence General Foundation ’s INSPIRE magazine for his phenomenal fundraising work through Pink the Rink for breast cancer patients. “The cancer word is super scary.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 5, 2024

A new perspective on how technology, transformation efforts, and other changes have affected payers, health systems, healthcare services and technology, and pharmacy services.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 5, 2024

Animal ecologists developed an analytical approach to better understand one of the latest threats to feathered creatures: the rise of wind and solar energy facilities.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

On National Bird Day, International Paper (IP) and longtime partner National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) are seeing the direct effects of forest habitat restoration and sustainable forest management to bird populations within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, where 40% of North America’s waterfowl and 60% of all U.S. migratory bird species return each year.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

COP28 drew much-needed attention to the need for urgent methane action in the food sector, says Meryl Richards, Program Director, Food and Forests at Ceres. It was hard not to notice at the largest ever Conference of the Parties (COP) that food was everywhere. There was the first themed day on food, agriculture, and water, countless food companies promoting their climate leadership, organisations touting climate-smart agriculture solutions, and some US$7.8 billion in financial pledges aimed at t

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., January 5, 2024 /3BL/ - Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park, a popular destination with one of the most pristine stretches of beaches in Naples, is getting a much-needed mangrove makeover to restore portions of its shoreline affected by Hurricane Ian. More than 25 volunteers from Duke Energy Florida, Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) Florida, as well as special help from Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC), teamed up to lead the restoration by planting 500 red and black

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 5, 2024

McKinsey’s 2023 global executive survey on autonomous driving reveals that despite recent uncertainties, the autonomous-vehicle industry is beginning to take shape.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, host Mark Ross interviews Baker Tilly’s Chief Diversity Officer, Shane Lloyd. Together, Mark and Shane discuss the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the healthcare sector and ways organizations can successfully implement DEI strategies. Specific topics of discussion included: Certain statistics related to diversity in the US and in the healthcare sector.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Batteries, green steel and hydrogen were among the bright spots for climate tech investment in 2023, even as overall. The post Dealflow spotlight: Climate tech looks to shake off its doldrums in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 5, 2024

The pathogenic potential of inhaling the inert fibrous nanomaterials used in thermal insulation (such as asbestos or fiberglass) is actually connected not to their chemical composition, but instead to their geometrical characteristics and size. This was revealed by a study conducted on glass nanofibers.

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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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ESG Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

International asset manager Robeco announced the introduction of ocean sustainability and phasing out hazardous chemicals as two new focus themes that it will be discussing with companies in its 2024 engagements, in addition to stepping up pressure on high carbon companies to align with climate goals, and engaging with fashion companies to address key sustainability issues in the sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Example of a karst system in the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia: Karst groundwater aquifers are major and important habitats (image credit: © Robert Reinecke). An international study classifies groundwater as a keystone ecosystem and proposes ways to improve its protection to preserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change Water is the basis of all life on Earth.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 5, 2024

The largest analysis yet of African savannah elephant populations shows that conservationists have successfully protected elephants in southern Africa for the last 25 years. However, the pattern varies regionally, with some elephant populations soaring and others still facing large declines. The key to long-term stability appears to be connecting large core areas with neighboring buffer zones, as opposed to well-protected but isolated protected areas known as 'fortress conservation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Anjali Viswamohanan, Director of Policy at the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, says governments should work closely with stakeholders on resilience and adaptation measures. In the final hours of COP28 , much attention was paid to the wording of the governments’ response to the Global Stocktake, particularly the collective agreement on “transitioning away” from fossil fuel use in energy systems.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 5, 2024

Impact investors are on the hunt for interns and other impact talent in the US and abroad to start the year. Just this. The post The Week’s Impact Jobs: January 5, 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

The first week of 2024 gave a few glimpses of the challenges and opportunities to come for policymakers, companies and investors. New year, new targets – Asset owners might reasonably start 2024 looking for signs of policymakers implementing headline commitments from COP28 , specifically accelerating their transition away from fossil fuel use in energy systems, tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency improvements.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

We do seem to be missing out on broader community engagement for this energy transition– I want to change that. I don’t think we are making it the collaborative endeavour it needs to be. I wrote my final energy post for 2023 asking, “Can we change accepted practices in any energy transition?“ I opened that post by posing a question and pointing towards this.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified electrical properties within gypsum nanomaterials – a development said to offer a promising avenue to developing sustainable habitation on Mars, where there is an abundance of the mineral. Using resources and techniques currently applied on the International Space Station and by NASA, the work investigates the potential of nanomaterials for clean energy production and building materials on Mars.

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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.

Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

Co-Authored with Zach Simon. Russia has delivered the first drop of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its heavily sanctioned flagship project, Arctic LNG-2. Moscow will hail the achievement as a victory over Western boycotts and proof that its domestic LNG industry is in rude health. In reality, however, the plant is likely to operate at severely reduced capacity and might never.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Melville Rodrigues, Head of Real Assets Advisory at Apex Group, welcomes the UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and calls for UK-EU coherence on fund regulation. The growing popularity of sustainable real estate funds means that UK fund managers will need to embrace the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) issued by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 28 November 2023.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

Identify & analyse the Policy Problem The Gulf Region is confronted with a significant policy dilemma about its energy market rules and regulations. Throughout history, the area has been significantly dependent on its enormous deposits of oil and natural gas. However, there is an increasing acknowledgment of the need to broaden the range of energy sources and foster sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Agreement marked by compromise rather than high ambition still provides stability for climate-focused stewardship, according to Lindsey Stewart, Director of Investment Stewardship Research, Morningstar. The COP28 climate conference in Dubai highlighted all that we need to worry about regarding the growing urgency of climate action and revealed very little that we didn’t already know.

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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.

Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

In his speech given at COP28, Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto reiterated the commitment his government made at the Africa Climate Summit to supply vast amounts of cheap and clean electricity to the Kenyan people. The very ambitious set target to reach about 100 GW by 2050 revealed an awareness by his government about the dire situation in Kenya and most Sub-Saharan African countries where.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 5, 2024

In a groundbreaking collaboration, SDSN Pakistan (SDSN-PK), the Institute for Global Health and Development at Aga Khan University (IGHD-AKU), and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), recently convened a transformative conference on November 26 & 27, 2023, entitled "Climate Change, Health, and Environment: Opportunities for Change" in the city of Karachi, Pakistan.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 5, 2024

Every week, I host 'The KJ Show,' which offers a mix of breaking news and practical advice on how the energy industry affects the consumer. During this fast-paced show, I combine weekly energy updates with conversations with leaders in the energy efficiency community. After each show, I'll share it here with the Energy Central Community in case you were unable to join me live.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Norwegian pension fund says labour reforms in the Gulf have not assuaged concerns; also excludes Saudi Aramco over energy transition. Concerns about migrant workers’ rights and systematic surveillance have led Norway-based pension fund KLP to exclude 11 firms in the Middle East, and also Saudi Aramco over energy transition concerns and its dominant state ownership.

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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.