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Don’t snail-scale climate tech

GreenBiz

Slow and steady won’t win this race. Getting across the finish line may require FIRE.

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Fossil giants tipped funds into major parties, but then the climate movement fought back

Renew Economy

While data shows the fossil fuel industry yet again pouring money into Australia's major parties, the 2022 federal election changed the political donations game. The post Fossil giants tipped funds into major parties, but then the climate movement fought back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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What to expect from a sustainability career in Europe?

GreenBiz

Young Americans are flocking to Europe for a green career. How do sustainability careers in Europe differ?

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Indonesia turns focus to floating solar with new 100MW tender

Renew Economy

Indonesia utility launches tender for another 100MW of floating solar as the archipelago seeks to grow its renewables supply. The post Indonesia turns focus to floating solar with new 100MW tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Public charging: The Achilles’ heel for EVs

GreenBiz

Will automotive companies and public EV charging providers ever catch up to Tesla’s Supercharger experience?

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Very big solar sets record year of growth in 2022, as developers focus on size

Renew Economy

Australia notched up the largest annual volume of 200MW-plus solar PV projects commissioned to date in 2022, new data shows. The post Very big solar sets record year of growth in 2022, as developers focus on size appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Carbon Hunters Episode 4: How GHGSat tracks methane from space

Corporate Knights

Early last year, a microwave-oven-sized satellite hurtling along at more than seven kilometres per second detected a massive methane leak from a coal mine in southwest Siberia. The owner of that satellite was GHGSat, a Montreal-based company that works at the intersection of space and climate change. While carbon dioxide gets most of the attention when it comes to greenhouse gases, GHGSat focuses on methane – an extremely potent gas that has been responsible for an estimated 30% of the world’s w

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Biggest solar contractor suffers from crunched margins, but says costs are falling

Renew Economy

Biggest solar contractor in Australia reveals more losses, and crunched margins, as it struggles to make any money out of its international portfolio. The post Biggest solar contractor suffers from crunched margins, but says costs are falling appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Smart buttons benefit business, too

Stacey Higginbotham

For the last two years, Shortcut Labs , the Swedish company behind the Flic buttons, has seen its sales to enterprises spike. Dirk Lüders, the head of partnerships at Shortcut Labs, told me that about half of the company’s revenue now comes from business clients even though it’s never marketed to them. These clients range from a car company that uses the button to physically open an app on a user’s phone to access the vehicle’s software features to a company called MiS

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One of Australia’s oldest and most richly rewarded solar farms sold after debt dispute

Renew Economy

One of Australia's first solar farms - and one of the most richly rewarded - has been sold by administrators. The post One of Australia’s oldest and most richly rewarded solar farms sold after debt dispute appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Cisco Compute and Operations Innovations on Display at Cisco Live Amsterdam

Cisco CSR

I can’t believe it’s been three years since we’ve had an in-person Cisco Live event in Europe. The data center team and I are really excited about sharing all the innovations we’ve been working on. This will be our first opportunity to share with you our groundbreaking UCS X-Series design and how it can improve your sustainability posture. And talking about sustainability, this will be a key area of focus for the event.

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How Fair Food Network is reshaping investment norms to fight wealth inequity

Impact Alpha

Despite the good intentions and creative strategies of impact investors, extreme wealth inequity persists. The climate crisis will only deepen the divide, unless. The post How Fair Food Network is reshaping investment norms to fight wealth inequity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Attend Cisco Live: Build Unified Experiences Using Simplicity And Data Intelligence

Cisco CSR

I’m excited to pack my bags to attend Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam next week! After a three-year hiatus, two words come to mind that represent my excitement: impactful connections! First, there are human connections – meeting with our customers, partners, and fellow Cisco colleagues from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Europe is where I grew up and where I started my journey with Cisco back in 2000.

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Rising Sea Levels Could Cover Twice as Much Land by End of Century Than Previously Estimated

Impakter

Impakter Rising Sea Levels Could Cover Twice as Much Land by End of Century Than Previously Estimated Melting ice caps around the globe are causing sea levels to rise at an unprecedented rate, and although we knew the situation was bad, it turns out it’s even worse than we thought. Not the best of starting points, but unfortunately, this is the matter at hand.

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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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Seeding a More Just Future

Stanford Social Innovation

By Carmen Rojas We are living in messy times. The impact of a frail democracy and fissured economy is that day-to-day living for far too many people in the United States is desperate and dire, while a handful of plutocrats, willing to game these political and economic systems, are lining their pockets to consolidate wealth, power, and political influence.

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AI firm aims to help maximise gains from solar installation

Envirotec Magazine

An AI technology company based in Southampton says it is making it easier for businesses and homeowners to install solar panels and get the best energy savings possible. Absolar is a spin out company from the University of Southampton based on the University’s Science Park in Chilworth – and says it is using unique AI-based remote sensing and GIS technology to carry out remote solar surveys for any of the UK’s buildings, property portfolios and cities.

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Renewables are Growing but is it Enough to Stop Climate Change?

Richard Matthews

Renewable energy continues to grow at a prodigious rate, but are the tremendous advances we are seeing enough to keep us from exceeding the upper-temperature threshold limits? Green energy has been steadily growing and in 2022, it grew even faster. According to the IEA, global renewable electricity generation increased by 295 gigawatts in 2021 and added another […] The post Renewables are Growing but is it Enough to Stop Climate Change?

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Activest’s FIRE strategy seeks to bend the arc of municipal finance toward ‘fiscal justice’

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 31 – It’s distressingly easy to find places where city finances are distorted by systemic racism or outright bigotry. It’s harder. The post Activest’s FIRE strategy seeks to bend the arc of municipal finance toward ‘fiscal justice’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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The Impact of Climate Change on the US Healthcare System

Environment + Energy Leader

In the past decade alone, there have been more than 300,000 deaths from natural disasters caused by climate change — and those numbers are likely to increase in coming years. The post The Impact of Climate Change on the US Healthcare System appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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ABB invests in OKTO GRID to digitalise the energy grid

Sustainability Matters

ABB is investing in Danish startup OKTO GRID to advance the development of technology that will digitalise and extend the useful life of aging electrical assets in order to meet the growing demand for reliable and stable power. OKTO GRID has developed a pilot solution that digitalises electrical infrastructure to enable real-time, remote condition and performance monitoring to prolong working life by another 40 years.

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Revalyu Resources Expands rPET Facility in Georgia

Environment + Energy Leader

Statesboro, Georgia will be home to the 43-acre facility rPET Facility. Groundbreaking will take place in the first half of 2023, and commissioning is planned for 2024. The post Revalyu Resources Expands rPET Facility in Georgia appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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The JUST Report: Walmart Helps Its Workers Live a Little Better

Just Capital

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Walmart , a JUST 100 company for the second time, did a just thing this week. It announced it was raising its minimum wage to at least $14 an hour for all its store workers. That will bring its U.S. average hourly wage up to $17.50, and beginning in March that hourly wage range will rise to $14-19. The move represents a roughly 17% jump in pay for the workers who stock shelves and look after customers, and is part of a wider package of investments the company is making in

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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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EU to Speed Up the Development of Clean Energy Technologies

Environment + Energy Leader

The initiative, which is still subject to change before its adoption on Wednesday, would ease state-aid rules in order to compete with the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and other new spending measures that include roughly $500 billion in tax breaks over a decade. The post EU to Speed Up the Development of Clean Energy Technologies appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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NEWS RELEASE: Canada added 1.8 GW of wind and solar in 2022 

CREA

CanREA’s new industry data shows that Canada is just starting to take advantage of its wind, solar and energy storage potential Ottawa, January 31, 2023— The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) today announced the industry’s year-end data, reporting that Canada’s wind and solar energy sectors grew significantly in 2022. “I am happy to see that, across Canada, the sector grew by an impressive 10.5% this year,” said Phil McKay, CanREA’s Senior Director, Technical and Utility Affairs.

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A responsible supply chain and circular economy for batteries will be critical for EVs and electric utilities

Utiliity Dive

Whether it’s advanced batteries for EVs or for energy storage to meet peak grid demand, foreign pressures on strategic resources and the global supply chain are directly at odds with our domestic energy policies and ambitions.

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With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt?

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

As deserts expanded their range over the past 5-7 million years, many plants invaded the new biome and rapidly diversified, producing amazing adaptations to drought and heat. Can plants continue to adapt to increasing aridity caused by climate change? A new study that addressed the origins of desert adaptation concluded that one group of desert plants, rock daisies, came preadapted to aridity, likely helping them survive desert conditions.

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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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Top ten observations from 2022 in life sciences digital and analytics

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Life sciences companies are making progress in adopting and deploying digital and analytics. But they can go further and faster by heeding some lessons from the past few years.

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The Brief: Municipal finance for fiscal justice, financing restoration with future carbon credits, impact notes, green steel, community-led funds

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Muni Impact Activest’s FIRE strategy seeks to bend the arc of municipal finance toward ‘fiscal justice.’ It’s distressingly. The post The Brief: Municipal finance for fiscal justice, financing restoration with future carbon credits, impact notes, green steel, community-led funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Industry Professionals Kick Off Impact Reporting Season with Online Event

B the Change

B Corp vets (clockwise from top left) Alisa Herr, Russ Stoddard, and Polina Pinchevsky, who came together to launch Unit of Impact, hosted the event. Learn Best Practices and Trends in the Business of Creating and Reporting Social and Environmental Impact It’s impact reporting season, and impact professionals from around the world recently gathered online for a LinkedIn Live event to discuss best practices and trends in the business of creating and reporting social and environmental impact.

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European Regulators Slammed for Approach to Greenwashing Probe

Chris Hall

A lack of engagement with key stakeholders and timing of greenwashing investigation among criticisms levelled at European Supervisory Authorities. DWS whistle-blower Desiree Fixler has criticised European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) for not reaching out to her regarding their investigation into greenwashing in sustainable investment, while other consultation responses focused on ESG rating agencies, harmonisation, and definitional nuances of greenwashing.

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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