GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Holly Secon. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A £3.4m investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute began on 31 August. The improvement work will help tackle the issue of sewer flooding by increasing the capacity of the local sewer network. It will involve the upsizing of almost 350 metres of sewer pipe, with large diameter sewers being installed along Barmore Road, Harbour Street, and on a short section of School Road.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

SDSN Afghanistan started the pilot the project of the "Our University and SDGs - A Capacity Building Program for Universities" at its host institution, Kateb University. The core objective of this program is to strengthen the position of universities and their contribution in the development process of Afghanistan using the Global Agenda which will be implemented in three phases as following: Rapid Self-Assessment for Learning : In this phase, policies, strategies, programs, curriculum, research

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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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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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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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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 31, 2020

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On August 27, 2020, the SDSN, Foresight4Food, IFAD, and APRA co-hosted the second in a series of eDialogues on the future of small-scale farming. The goal of the series is to present the latest thinking of experts working on the front lines to support small-scale agriculture, and this second session looked at the challenges smallholders face and opportunities for improvement in yields and standards of living at the local level.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Small business relief funding efforts are bogged down in Washington. But a growing network of state governments and private funders are backing community-based lenders to provide critical capital for small businesses trying to recover from the COVID crisis. The California Rebuilding Fund, greenlighted by state officials last week, boosts the lending.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Battery-less control and monitoring units will be able to draw energy from electrical cabling. Two French firms have developed an innovative energy harvesting platform that is based on induction. The technology – the fruit of a collaboration between e-peas, an energy harvesting specialist, and magnetic components manufacturer TCT – is being positioned for an important role within building automation and smart-grid deployments.

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EMG CSR

AUGUST 31, 2020

EMG Group, the international advisory firm for sustainable development, has announced the opening of a Saudi Arabian office in Riyadh. This is to back the realization of Vision 2030 and to facilitate support to the private sector in its efforts to strategically navigate present economic realities. European roots, world-class accreditation Founded in 2004, the award-winning [.].

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Scaling circular fashion in North America: Part 1. What could a circular fashion industry look like in 2050? The need for urgent action is clear: While the lifespan of individual garments dwindles, the environmental footprint of the apparel industry continues to grow. But where there’s inefficiency, there’s often opportunity. From renewable and recycled inputs to new business models such as repair, rental and recommerce to end of life management and more — like enabling technologies, policies an

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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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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on AACSB. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. The more we can apply lessons from pandemic-era teaching to the programs we develop now, the better we can innovate for tomorrow’s online education. By mid-March, 79 percent of AACSB-surveyed business schools had converted face-to-face classes to online after the COVID-19 health crisis caused colleges and universities around the world to close their doors.

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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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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The world’s 100 most significant timber and pulp companies score just 22.6 per cent, on average, when assessed across 175 environmental, social, and governance indicators, according to a study by the Zoological Society of London.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The open source movement takes on climate data. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:15. As GreenBiz co-founder and Executive Editor Joel Makower wrote earlier this week, many companies are moving to disclose " climate risk ," although far fewer are moving to actually minimize it. And as those tasked with preparing those reports can attest, the process of gathering the data for them is frustrating and complex, especially as the level of detail desired and required by investors becomes deeper.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Hedgehog (photo credit: Ben Andrew). The government is approaching a “fork in the road” that could “change the course of the future for nature” as it plans to shake up the country’s planning system, conservation experts have warned. On 3 September the RSPB was asking people to speak up for nature and ensure wildlife in their local area is protected and make sure the wildlife that brought us so much solace during lockdown is not endangered by proposals for a radically different planning system.

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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

Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

An extensive biodiversity survey in Kon Plong, a district in Vietnam’s central highlands, has revealed the presence of endangered endemic species such as the gray-shanked douc langur in forests that are not currently protected.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Instead of selling and trading credits related to nature-based solutions, its exchange features industrial businesses that store carbon dioxide in products such as biochar, timber construction and other building materials.

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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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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Editor’s note : This article was first published on the Global Solutions blog. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. This is the first of two articles published in the last week examining important links between environmental conditions and public health as well as how nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations and national governments can help address these issues.

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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.

Eco-Business

AUGUST 31, 2020

Climate risks pose a potential threat to the creditworthiness of many debt issuers. Scenario analysis based on standardised climate models can help to clarify the impact of global warming on credit risks and investors’ confidence.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:30. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. As the market for electric vehicles takes off, that means eventually hundreds of millions of EV batteries will be in use and then face end of life.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 1 – Here’s a solid example of a 10x response: Total impact investments by clients of San Francisco-based ImpactAssets increased tenfold to $170 million in the first six months of 2020. In the first half of last year, ImpactAssets clients deployed about $17.5 million in private mission-driven businesses and impact funds. “Our clients.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Today the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Parliamentarians for the Global Goals (PFGG), and Gabriela Cuevas, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), organized a high-level dialogue on alternative development metrics, such as subjective well-being, and their role in tracking progress on building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2020

Mauritius is a biodiversity hotspot and much of the island’s unique wildlife depends on intricate connections between the reefs, lagoons, seagrass meadows and mangroves, so pollution in one habitat will have devastating ripple effects.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Aligning Action with Ambition: How Leadership Companies Approach Audacious Sustainability Goals. The pressure is on when it comes to sustainability in the private sector. No longer is it sufficient to announce new ambitions. Now, driven by new reporting requirements in the form of TCFD, new regulatory regimes being enacted by the EU, increasing shareholder and consumer pressure around the pace of climate change, companies are being asked to not only set goals – but to share detailed plans about

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Blue Like an Orange, a $200 million structured debt fund, extended BRL 30 million (about $5.5 million) to Placi Cuidados Extensivos, which is developing the market for “transitional” health care in Brazil. Placi offers an alternative between acute hospital care and homecare, a new concept in Brazil, for patients needing rehabilitation.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Yandex will increase its stake in new self-driving vehicle company (Yandex SDG) to 73% and invest an additional $150 million in its future development.

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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.