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

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

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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

When junior employees see “pls fix” in an email, they know to drop what they’re working on and jump on the latest, probably time-intensive request from the boss. Those requests are never quick, easy, or convenient. (“Pls fix” wouldn’t inspire memes if they were!) When it comes to the plastic waste crisis and our world’s recycling system, the tables are turned.

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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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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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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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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

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

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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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.

GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Insights about CES 2023 participants Candela, Zoox and VinFast.

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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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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: 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 CSR

JANUARY 17, 2023

Join the Cisco DevOps Community . Lately, I’ve been trying to get a better understanding of the DevOps job role and the different directions this role has taken across the technology spectrum. The concept of DevOps has spread to several different areas, and each has its own distinct implementation. What is DevOps? In its most basic form, DevOps is the combination of development and operations to build a faster, more flexible, and more automated set of processes for software development.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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.

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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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 17, 2023

The joint venture will develop and run both recycling facilities as greenfield projects. Under the new structure, ACE will own 51% of the recycling facilities and Tabono will own 49%. The post ACE Green Recycling and Tabono Investments Sign Partnership to Promote Circularity appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Impakter

JANUARY 17, 2023

Impakter. Could Sweden’s Discovery of Rare Earth Minerals Solve Europe’s Supply Problems? Last Thursday, Swedish mining company LKAB announced it had discovered Europe’s largest known deposit of rare earth minerals. The deposit is located in the far north of Swedish Lapland and, according to LKAB, contains over one million metric tons of rare earth oxides.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 17, 2023

During the projected period, North America is anticipated to hold a market share of 27.6% due to the presence of several utility analytics companies and industries in the region. The post Utility and Energy Analytics Market Expected to Reach $9.8B by 2032 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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.

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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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 17, 2023

Verdane, Equinor, and Södra announce Njord Carbon, an international initiative aiming to sustainably remove and permanently store biogenic carbon emissions. . The post Verdane, Equinor and Södra Announce Joint Initiative to Remove and Permanently Store Biogenic Carbon Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Utiliity Dive

JANUARY 17, 2023

ISO-New England says storage as a transmission-only asset could step in and provide power in the rare situation when one transmission line is overloaded and others go down in a storm, threatening an outage.

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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.