GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In a year marked by crisis and uncertainty, corporate America is at a crossroads. The choices companies make today will have consequences on gender equality for decades to come.

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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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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The first Volta Trucks customer is Drinks Cubed. Volta Trucks recently unveiled the Volta Zero, a fully battery electric delivery vehicle or bus for urban areas. Out of the many good electric delivery vehicles out there, this one looks like one of the absolute coolest. The design is slick, sleek, and futuristic.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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.".

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Heather Clancy. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02. Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 billion company’s new commitment to achieve net-zero status for its own operations by the end of this decade. .

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects. Jesse Klein. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:00. It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. Corporations have used that to their advantage to become an important part of the tree planting business.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. Maria Mendiluce. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 01:00. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. Most weeks bring fresh headlines of wildfires, droughts and rapidly melting ice caps. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The How2Recycle label needs a massive campaign. Brands should make it happen. Suzanne Shelton. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 01:00. I hope you’ve downloaded our latest free report, "Engaging Middle America in Recycling Solutions.". We conducted that research because we were curious about whether Americans were aware of what was happening with our recycling system — that most Asian countries no longer will take our plastics off our hands, many municipal curbside programs are shutting down and many plastics w

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Walmart drives toward zero-emission goal for its entire fleet by 2040. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:50. If you needed any more evidence that America's vehicle fleets are driving toward zero-emission status, it's this: Walmart just announced that it will electrify and zero out emissions from all Walmart vehicles, including long haul trucks, by 2040. .

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is the moment to reimagine public transportation. Amanda Eaken. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 00:21. Back in April, the city of Seattle temporarily closed off nearly 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic in order to let residents bike, walk, jog and skate at a safe social distance during the height of the city’s COVID-19 pandemic. Seattle’s Stay Healthy Streets program was designed to encourage people to travel to essential services and small local businesses — or just to get outside for exerci

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts. Bryn Baker. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 01:00. On Aug. 14 and 15, the California electric grid operator made the incredibly rare decision to proactively shut off parts of the electricity grid, resulting in limited rolling blackouts affecting businesses and homes throughout the state.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – UBS said today that it will make sustainable investments “the preferred solution” for clients of its 2.6 trillion global wealth management business. “We believe sustainable investments will prove to be one of the most exciting and durable opportunities for private clients in the years and decades ahead, says UBS’ Iqbal Khan.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Public equity markets have historically been overlooked in the impact investing space, traditionally a domain for credit and private market financing. We see public equities playing a growing and indispensable role in the impact ecosystem. A common question in the industry is: how exactly can investing in public equities create impact? At BlackRock, our Active.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Investors often meet skepticism when they say that they can make money while doing good. A new analysis of every equity investment International Finance Corporation has ever made validates this notion, especially when capital is scarce. IFC, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is one of the longest-standing equity investors in emerging markets.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 2 – Two impact investors sounded off in ImpactAlpha this week about the importance of securing the fairness of the November U.S. election (see, “How impact investors can help ensure racial justice includes electoral justice,” and “Impact investors have a role to play in preventing worst-case election scenarios”). Now comes the Facebook founder.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 24 – DWS Group, the $869 billion wealth manager spun out of Deutsche Bank two years ago, has cut back its New York-based sustainable investing team and shelved impact funds targeting microfinance institutions and renewable energy in sub-Saharan energy. Team members sent farewell notes to colleagues a week ago. Asad Mahmood, who led.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The upending of this school year has made almost every parent, willingly or not, a participant in the radical transformation of education. Some of the most far-reaching proposals for reinventing elementary, middle and high schools run into a well-founded objection: while all that might be fine for relatively affluent, largely white families, what about lower-income.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 10 – Berkeley, Calif.-based software company Terabase helps monitor and automate utility-scale solar projects. The company is pushing to lower the cost of solar power below $0.01 per kilowatt-hour in the next five years. (A recent Terabase project in Qatar will sell power for $0.01449/kWh). The company has raised a $6 million Series.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 3 – Indonesian insurance tech company PasarPolis partners with large insurance firms to develop health, vehicle and life insurance products for lower-income customers. The five-year-old company expanded into Vietnam and Thailand last year. LeapFrog invested in the company’s $54 million Series B round. The impact investor was joined by ride-hailing company Gojek’s venture.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 1 – The Local Initiatives Support Corp.’s launched its Black Economic Development Fund to invest in Black-owned banks and minority businesses, along with charter schools, affordable housing projects and athletic facilities in Black communities. Costco’s $25 million commitment to matches $25 million from Netflix. LISC is targeting $100 million for the fund.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 1 – D.C.-based nonprofit Halcyon recently launched an angel network for residents of the D.C. metro area to invest in impact startups. The network’s first two investments are a $400,000 commitment to MajorClarity, an edtech startup focused on remote learning, and $230,000 for community solar startup Solstice. Halcyon has been incubating D.C.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – The race is on to get to zero emissions. Joining the list of corporations pledging to reach net-zero emissions by 2050: Morgan Stanley, Walmart and Facebook. As Climate Week begins, such pledges have doubled from last year, according to Data-Driven EnviroLab and NewClimate Institute, to more than 1,500 companies globally with.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 9, 2020 –– Business and finance reporting will never be the same. The pandemic, the protests and the climate emergency have made sustainable finance, impact investing and “ESG” the fastest-growing categories of financial services. And that means a media battle for that audience is brewing as well. ImpactAlpha, the purpose-built impact investing media.

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