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Paper, plastic or neither? Inside the collaboration to reinvent the shopping bag. Tali Zuckerman. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:45. Replacing the single-use shopping bag may be one of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time. At GreenBiz’s Circularity 20 virtual conference last week, sustainability leaders from Target, Walmart and CVS came together to discuss how they are planning to do just that, and why working together despite being competitors is critical to achieving success.
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 14, 2020 –– Milton Friedman’s 1970 essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” turned 50 this week. It has not aged well. Corporate and business voices assembled across the media landscape to bury Friedman’s doctrine of “shareholder primacy” and champion the advent of “stakeholder capitalism” responsible to workers, communities, The post Fifty years later, resetting capitalism from shareholders to stakeholders appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Newhaven waste incinerator, East Sussex. A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme – the replacement for the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to come into effect after the UK leaves the EU. The application for judicial review, by environmental campaigner Georgia Elliott-Smith, also includes a challenge to the Government’s decision to roll forward carbon emissions allowances to future year
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I have been busier than ever, talking with C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies to small start-ups and mom-and-pop shops, all with the same question: What do we do now? A global pandemic and an economic downturn have left many without work, while several businesses are closing their doors after decades, all seemingly overnight.
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
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Why agtech is critical for regenerative agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/17/2020 - 01:30. Early this month, McDonald’s made headlines when it teamed with Cargill, Target and The Nature Conservancy to put $8.5 million toward helping Nebraska farmers cultivate regenerative agriculture practices over the next five years. The initiative, like others emerging in the past several years from Cargill , General Mills, Danone and other big companies in the food system, is aimed at promoting natural ca
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ImpactAlpha, September 15 – Bridges Fund Management and AEA Investors filed to float a $400 public offering for AEA-Bridges Impact Corp., a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC, that will hunt for mid-cap private companies to take public. New York-based AEA, with $15 billion in assets under management, will tap Bridges’ impact investing experience to.
A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address the plastics crisis – the plastics industry, consumer brands and retailers have obstructed and undermined proven legislative solutions to the crisis for decades. Based on research and investigations in over 15 countries across five continents, Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions , according to the authors, exposes how t
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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
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The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills. Jim Giles. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 00:15. How about this for a series of maddening statistics? Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. The single largest input into U.S. landfills is food waste, yard trimmings and other organic matter.
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 11 – The co-founder and managing director of SJF Ventures still had half of the firm’s $125 million fourth fund when COVID shutdowns shut down business as usual. Kirkpatrick and team drew on two decades of relationships to identify companies offering solutions to people working remotely, shopping more consciously for food, seeking gainful.
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On September 23, 2020 alongside the UNGA, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center, SDSN Southeast Asia , and United in Diversity hosted the "Happiness Lab: People, Planet and Spirituality in Harmony" exclusive plenary as part of the RICH 70 Tsinghua SEA Cloud Forum, commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Indonesia (RI) and China (CH) bilateral relationship.
Producing CSR Report Integrated reporting is an innovation in corporate reporting, encouraging the inclusion of robust CSR/ sustainability metrics into traditional financial reporting. Combining the analysis of financial and non-financial performance provides organizations with an additional layer of information for confident decision-making, and provides investors with a broader perspective on risk in the long and [.].
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To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. Peter Boyd. Mon, 09/28/2020 - 01:30. Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. But any chief sustainability officer will fall short of their responsibility if they simply cite net-zero as a strategic goal. High ambition on its own may sound good.
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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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter. Charles Orgbon. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:45. Long before corporations acknowledged Black Lives Matter, they championed the plights of specific endangered species. Corporate conservation campaigns used phrases such as "Save the [insert your favorite animal]," which have been catchy, effective and oddly similar to the language we’re now using to educate people about the status of Black life in America.
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A corporate water strategy manifesto: We can and will do better. Will Sarni. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. We have decided to craft this brief manifesto to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, solve wicked water problems and achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.".
Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business. Erin Billman. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. It has been encouraging to see company and government commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions coming thick and fast in recent months, even despite the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes announcements from corporate giants Facebook , Uber and Amazon.
Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. Skyven CEO Arun Gupta said the idea came when he applied the thinking behind his Ph.D. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change.
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