GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription.This week, I want to talk about one of the most exciting options we have for reforming our food systems and tackling climate change: regenerative agriculture.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 19 – Asset allocators inside pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign funds overwhelmingly select white and male-owned firms to manage their money. Women and minority-owned firms manage just 1.3% of the industry’s $69.1 trillion in assets. That homogeneity may be crimping returns, with data suggesting outperformance by gender and racially diverse teams, and.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The Lowry Hotel in Manchester is among the first in the UK to sign up to a new toiletries recycling scheme. Clean the World, a global leader in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and sustainability, recycles discarded soap and empty toiletry bottles from hotel rooms and distribute them to those in need, preventing millions of hygiene-related illnesses and deaths every year.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Updated annually, our Private Markets Review offers the best of our research and insight into private equity, private real estate, and other private markets. Explore the findings from our most recent report and scroll for past years’ reports.
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.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Amazon, TJ Maxx and Tyson are among well-known U.S. companies with no publicly stated deforestation strategy. Is your organization complicit?
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Impact can drive alpha—but market-beating returns are hard to come by in short-term investments. An impact portfolio that’s not under regular review is probably losing its impact. Assessing true impact at the community level grows more challenging as impact investments scale. RSF Social Finance learned all these things from the impact portfolio created for the.
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Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
An integral part of anticipation and becoming anticipatory in your organization oftentimes has to do with catching an opportunity that everyone is either missing or perhaps even ignoring due to the belief that it is not profitable. One way to accomplish this is to simply look where no one else is looking. But how and where you look helps broaden both you and your organization’s anticipatory abilities, and is integral in successfully identifying the Hard Trends shaping your industry, both from th
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
With companies’ environmental, social and governance initiatives largely focused on mitigation and adaptation, the lines are blurring between corporate sustainability and philanthropy.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 21 – Cost curves for renewables are falling fast and everything needs to be rebuilt. Welcome to the resource revolution that Scott Jacobs and Jigar Shah spotted years ago. Jacobs and Shah founded Generate in 2014 and this month closed on $1 billion in financing. The capital will be invested in long-term sustainable-infrastructure-as-a-service.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The “Innovation Wagon” at a previous OWL Roadshow. An initiative with a brief to help drive up safety and compliance standards in the transport sector (including in relation to air quality and emissions from vehicles) is returning to Scotland in March. The OWL (Optimised Waste & Logistics) Roadshow is offering “a thought-provoking programme” that the organisers say delivers practical solutions for the air quality crisis, as well as new intelligence about electric RCV
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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.
Sustainable Development Network
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
From Wednesday, February 19th, to Friday, February 21st, the SDSN Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems hosted an online, virtual conference on recovering nutrients from sanitation for use in agriculture. Why Nutrient Recovery from Sanitation? Our global food system has created a number of challenges at the nexus of agriculture, sanitation, and water quality.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The U.S. appetite for renewable energy is creating opportunity across the Lone Star state in places such as Brownsville, Houston, Corpus Christi and Galveston.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week’s Agents of Impact Agents of Impact: Scott Jacobs and Jigar Shah, Generate Capital. Cost curves for renewables are falling fast and everything needs to be rebuilt. Welcome to the resource revolution that Scott Jacobs and Jigar Shah spotted years ago. Jacobs and Shah founded Generate in 2014 and this month. The post The Week in impact investing: Latin American solutions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. Anaerobic digestion and biogas can deliver a 6% reduction in UK annual greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade, 30% of the UK’s legally binding carbon budget for 2030. The industry can also help reduce the carbon footprint of hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as heat, transport, waste management and agriculture.
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
Sustainable Development Network
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
On February 14, 2020, SDSN staff visited the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES) to attend the 5th Annual Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event explored current trends in innovation, agriculture, foreign affairs, trade, and climate-induced human migration. This year’s theme was Latin America at Home and Abroad: People, Capital, and Natural Resources.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Tracking technologies could provide information throughout a product's journey, from the start all the way through to its use at the consumer level, and ultimately to its disposal or reuse in the future.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
One of the first acts of new Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf when he joined the bank last October was to sign onto the new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation promoted by the Business Roundtable. A few months earlier, more than 180 CEOs had declared a new era in which they would pay. The post Wells Fargo’s move to block shareholder vote undermines ‘stakeholder’ commitments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
HERU founder Nik Spencer with the Hybrid Water Heating System. In what seems a major step of recognition for the HERU energy-from-waste domestic heating system – a widely lauded British Greentech innovation – the firm has announced a new partnership with Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, Siemens. The partnership will see Siemens support the production phase of the HERU Hybrid Water Heating System through sharing valuable knowledge and best practices currently used wi
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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
Sense and Sustainability
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The new decade opened with a joint drill between the navies of Pakistan and China. The drill between the “ iron brothers ” was cause of concern and speculation for India since it was conducted in the Arabian Sea near India’s western coast, which hosts its major ports. Called “Sea Guardians 2020,” the exercise signified Pakistan’s posture in finally developing a concrete Indian Ocean policy.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The airline plans to invest in aircraft renewal, sustainable jet fuel, weight reduction, and CO2 offsetting and sequestration projects.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Greetings, Agent of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Latin America’s impact investors lead the way at the Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto. More than 600 impact investing doers and shapers are convening in Mérida, Mexico this week for the tenth Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto, the biggest impact investing gathering in Latin America.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Virtual Trial Hole Assistant (VTA) provides information about current and planned streetworks across the UK, along with data in relation to things like lane rental scheme networks, and Section 58 restrictions. Utility service provider Morrison Utility Services (MUS) is undertaking a 12-month trial of Virtual Trial Hole Assistant (VTA), a software tool that the firm believes could revolutionise the process of planning and executing underground excavation work, and which was recently recognised wi
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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.
Sense and Sustainability
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The increasing release of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere is prompting considerable interest in the role that natural sinks have in the uptake of carbon. Soils are the third largest sink of the five global carbon pools. The other four reservoirs are the ocean, the biosphere, the atmosphere, and the earth’s crust (sedimentary rock deposits and fossil fuels).
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
If we are to make any significant progress on critical issues such as ending poverty and climate change, as set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals, we will need everyone at the table.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 20 – Migration and displacement are unfortunate growth sectors in Latin America. Migrants continue to flee the troubled ‘northern triangle’ of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. With U.S. border policies stopping many Central American migrants at the border, Mexico is grappling with its own influx of refugees and immigrants. Further south, more than.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists and linkages between crises. Part of a new report, Our Future on Earth, 2020, in which experts distill latest peer-reviewed, state-of-the-planet research and its interconnected complexities. The greatest threat to humanity hides in the potential cascading of impacts of five highly-related, highly-likely risks — a collision that can amplify these effects catastrophically, according to a new survey of 222 leading scientists from 52 countries.
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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.
Eco-Business
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
With the United Kingdom due to host this year’s round of crucial UN climate talks in November, a new study shows the island country currently has no chance of meeting its own legally binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to nothing within 30 years.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Around the world, communities are using "Rights of Nature" laws to defend waterways, species and more from human threats.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Few would dispute that for many of the 840 million people without access to electricity globally, off-grid solutions will be essential to improving livelihoods for many of the poorest and most remote households and enterprises. That said, as impact-first investors, we should not be content with a headline and a picture of a satisfied rural. The post Listen to customers, not hypesters, about the impact of energy access appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Manmade chemicals at levels below the toxic threshold for marine animals are now linked to a rise in the number of porpoises killed by disease. Europe banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 1987 because of their believed toxicity to people and wildlife. These chemicals have a history of use in electrical equipment, coatings and paints. But the chemicals, often still found in electrical products and likely to be in landfills, still enter the environment and foodchain carried in water.
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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.
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