GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

If we don’t know what greenwashing is, how can we avoid it or fight it?

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

Illustration by Michael Byers. 2023 Global 100. 100 most sustainable companies of 2023 still flourishing in tumultuous times. Meet the latest Global 100 companies driving the transition to a low-carbon, circular economy . View top company profile. view previous rankings ». Skip to ranking. BY. Mike Scott. January 18, 2023. With Russia’s war in Ukraine driving energy prices up to record levels and the world experiencing unprecedented climate disasters, it has never been more important for co

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Insights about CES 2023 participants Candela, Zoox and VinFast.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 17, 2023

US-based developer enters Australian market with eyes on wind, solar and storage projects. The post Bluestar enters Australian wind, solar and storage market after $US100m capital raise appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

At VERGE 2022, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fossil-fuel induced energy crisis of 2022 has sparked the biggest ever jump in new construction starts for wind, solar and storage projects. The post Fossil fuel crisis prompts biggest ever switch to renewables and storage in 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 17, 2023

Some solar farms are losing half of their output due to grid congestion, as renewable cop the brunt of curtailment and markets fail to provide correct signals to storage. The post Solar farm output cut by half as renewables cop brunt of grid congestion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sponsored: COP15 concluded with new targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Reaching them requires that we verify the desired benefits are truly taking place.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 17, 2023

CEO of one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers believes that turbines are big enough and that the main challenge is to increase output. The post Wind energy CEO says turbines are big enough for now appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

The first year in a new role can be daunting. Here are lessons from one sustainability professional's first year in the role.

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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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

It began in 1906 as a one-man scrap metal business in Portland, Oregon, called Alaska Junk Company. More than a century later, Schnitzer Steel has been named the world’s most sustainable corporation of 2023. Steel is one of the world’s most carbon-intensive products (accounting for roughly 7% of human-produced CO2 emissions, the International Energy Agency’s Iron and Steel Technology Roadmap says), so having a corporation that makes steel products top Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

The tide is turning against ships that pollute both sea and air with the noxious fumes given off by bunker fuel. First movers are leading the way with solutions.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

There is no such thing as guilt-free flying. Neste, a Finnish biofuels maker, is trying to change that. Passenger jets have voracious appetites. A Boeing 747 will burn about four litres of fuel every second. Assuming the tanks are topped up, the fuel alone weighs almost as much as the empty plane. A single transatlantic round trip produces the equivalent of one tonne of carbon dioxide per passenger, according to the British oil company BP.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Australian government has named a former boss of NZ utility Contact Energy and long time executive at Origin Energy to lead its crisis-hit Snowy Hydro. The post Bowen announces new CEO of crisis-hit Snowy Hydro appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the energy transition kicks into full swing and we electrify much of our lives, the demand on electricity grids is expected to swell. And observers say o ff-grid solutions will play a big role in taking strain off the traditional grid and keeping electricity affordable. . In Episode 2 of Carbon Hunters , Diana Fox Carney speaks to Miriam Tuerk , the CEO and co-founder of Clear Blue Technologies, a Toronto-based company that uses smart off-grid technology (and renewable energy) to monitor and

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 17, 2023

McKinsey analyzed 14 new trends in its latest report on the most significant emerging technologies. Here are three for leaders to focus on right now.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 17, 2023

The role of technology is more important in your business than ever to ensure that critical services are always running. Keeping pace with changing priorities in a dynamic environment is not easy, especially with a complex software landscape. Technology teams often must manage multiple contracts, which can be a complex activity. Cisco is helping alleviate this complexity with our Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA), a multi-year contract with unified terms and conditions that helps you buy, consume,

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 17, 2023

Resilience is the ability to not only recover quickly from a crisis but to bounce back better—and even thrive.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 17, 2023

Gartner defines communication service providers (CSPs) as those who offer telecommunications services, media, information, content, entertainment, and applications services over networks. We know them as our telecommunications companies, our cable service provider, our satellite broadcast operators, and our cloud communications providers. CSPs are arguably the most important players to enable an accessible, affordable, secure, trustworthy, sustainable, and inclusive internet.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 17, 2023

As part of its commitment to procuring renewable energy, Verizon has signed four new long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for up to 410MW of renewable energy capacity. The post Verizon Signs PPA for 410MW of Renewable Energy Capacity appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 17, 2023

This blog is the second in a series on public cloud optimization. Also see “ Reduce Public Cloud Spend with Intersight Workload Optimizer ,” and stay tuned for the third blog in the series on how to simplify multi-cloud operations in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Recently I sat down with Mohit Vaswani , technical solutions architect for Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO), to talk about how organizations can achieve cost benefits offered by the public cloud through effective cloud migration plannin

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Utiliity Dive

JANUARY 17, 2023

The projects are the result of solicitations conducted after the California Public Utilities Commission approved an 11.5-GW procurement package in 2021.

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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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Impakter

JANUARY 17, 2023

Impakter. Political Intransigence and Your Inner Elephant. In both American and European political life, we have separated ourselves into stubborn tribal enclaves. Having set up positions from which we refuse to budge, we are deadlocked into animosity against each other – just like a stubborn elephant. This puts at risk the democratic process that requires allowing the majority view to prevail.

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Utiliity Dive

JANUARY 17, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions in solar last year were the most numerous since 2010, but other types of corporate finance, including debt financing and public market financing, declined.

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Stacey Higginbotham

JANUARY 17, 2023

For many connected devices, intermittent connectivity is a fact of life. Whether a device is connected to a satellite network or trying to communicate over a spotty Wi-Fi connection in a factory, there are plenty of use cases where a sensor has data to share, but must wait to share it. That’s why I was intrigued by Ditto , a four-year-old startup in San Francisco that makes software designed to share data over intermittent connections.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 17, 2023

Private investors have snapped up data centers in recent years, but plenty of other potential investment opportunities in the sector’s value chain may be going unnoticed.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

The World Economic Forum announced today the launch of Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA), a new program aimed at unlocking $3 trillion per year of financing for initiatives to achieve net zero, nature loss reversal and biodiversity restoration by 2050. Launched together with more than 45* philanthropic, public and private sector partners, the new initiative is focused on funding and growing new public, private and philanthropic partnerships (PPPPs) to help address the “slow and inadequate” s

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 17, 2023

With only a small percentage of plastics recycled, determining the best way to recycle and reuse these materials may enable higher adoption of plastics recycling and reduce plastic waste pollution. Researchers examined the benefits and trade-offs of current and emerging technologies for recycling certain types of plastics to determine the most appropriate options.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

S&P Global Sustainable1 and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today the launch of Nature Risk Profile, a new methodology aimed at enabling companies and investors to assess and analyze companies’ nature-related risks, including impacts and dependencies on biodiversity. The new methodology comes as businesses and financial institutions increasingly focus on nature and biodiversity risk, and as global efforts to address nature-related issues begin to pick up pace.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 17, 2023

Iberdrola aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040 in all areas of its operations: Scopes 1,2, and 3. The post Iberdrola Goes Big on Renewables — Even Wind Energy Where It Dominates appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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