Financial Times: Moral Money

DECEMBER 26, 2023

France’s stipulation for its sustainable ISR label could lead to billions of euros of divestments by pan-European vehicles

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The deal with Chestnut Carbon covers the removal of 2.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over 15 years to support Microsoft's climate ambitions.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Energized by Edison Staying committed to New Year’s resolutions may be difficult, but what if your actions can help create a better tomorrow? Consider these resolutions to make a lasting impact for a greener and cleaner new year for you and your community. To contribute to a clean energy future, you can take small steps or giant leaps to help reduce your carbon footprint.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By SSIR Editors The end of the year is often a time for reflection and looking back, but when you examine the list of SSIR ’s most-read articles of 2023, you’ll find they’re focused on shaping the future: Improving the practice of design thinking to solve social problems, preparing organizations to adopt AI responsibly, telling better stories for transformational social change, coordinating impact investing so communities thrive, achieving equity and justice for all, and more.

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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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Joan Michelson

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Governments & business leaders see climate change is "a threat multiplier,” and now are seizing addressing it as “an opportunity multiplier" Here are 7 wins in 2023.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The high-temperature processes needed to make steel can be powered by electricity, and hydrogen produced using renewable energy would cut emissions significantly.

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Caux Round Table

DECEMBER 26, 2023

According to ChatGPT, moral capitalism is alive and well! As colleagues have been consulting ChatGPT and sending me its thoughts, I wondered if moral capitalism might have standing in its universe of words. I asked ChatGPT “What is moral capitalism?” and was pleasantly surprised at the almost immediate response, which is here: “Moral capitalism” refers to an approach to economic and business activities that seeks to integrate ethical considerations and moral values into the capitalist system.

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Joan Michelson

DECEMBER 26, 2023

America’s infrastructure has gotten a D every year since 1998 in ASCE's report card. It's grade went up in 2023 & will rise significantly with upgrades started in 2023.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The company is testing a circular, closed-loop system for delivering liquor with ecoSPIRITS.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Schneider Electric This is the final part of a three-blog series on how prosumers are disrupting the energy landscape. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. As we’ve seen in the first two posts in this blog series, prosumers are shaking up the energy world. From homes to businesses and even factories, those who produce as well as consume energy are helping to define the energy landscape of the future.

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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.

ESG Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The government of Canada announced the publication of its completed new standard on the availability of electric vehicles, mandating annual increases in the proportion of sales of new zero emissions light duty vehicles, including passenger cars, SUVs, and light trucks, with a target to reach 100% zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035. The new standard was initially announced in draft form in 2022, following the release earlier in the year of the government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, o

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Some climate solutions don’t deserve the spotlight, while others deserve more attention.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2023

National interdisciplinary design firm, HGA, set out to understand how employees experience, perceive, and define workplace equity. Much of the literature on workplace equity focuses on its significance to business success rather than on the individual employee experience. Researchers from HGA’s Design Insight Group (DIG) interviewed 19 participants from diverse groups, including BIPOC, hourly employees, and those hired after March 2020.

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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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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 25, 2023

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact. That’s the tagline we’ve used for the dozens of Agents of Impact we profiled. The post Holiday List No. 1: A dozen Agents of Impact to watch in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Renewable energy infrastructure developer and operator Pattern Energy announced today that it has secured $11 billion in financing, consisting of a $8.8 billion in green loans and a $2.25 billion tax equity term loan facility, and that it has initiated construction on the SunZia Wind and Transmission projects, which the company described as “the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It could take years for states to address the loss of federal standards — if they do at all.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In a time of rapidly evolving technological change, it’s more important than ever that we accelerate our work to close the digital divide. Recently, Comcast brought together hundreds of nonprofit and local leaders from across the nation for our Project UP Summit – leaders who are empowering communities to leverage technology to shape their lives. It was an inspiring two days at our headquarters in Philadelphia, and the perfect way to also celebrate Comcast’s founding 60 years ago.

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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

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Barley seedlings grow on average 50% more when their root system is stimulated electrically through a new cultivation substrate. Researchers have now developed an electrically conductive 'soil' for soil-less cultivation, known as hydroponics.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 27, 2023

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 27 – Impact investing funds are sitting on some $200 billion in dry powder, according to Pitchbook. To get a sense. The post Holiday List No. 2: Ten impact investing trends to track in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2023

More states are pursuing cap-and-trade, but closely watching a likely ballot measure on repeal in Washington.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This ESG Talk mini-series highlights two episodes featuring Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Part one introduces CSB’s innovative Return on Sustainability Investment—or ROSI—model. In part two, Tensie and Mandi McReynolds are joined by Kelly Fisher, head of corporate sustainability at HSBC Bank USA, and share stories of companies driving financial performance with ESG.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Amid the threat of dramatic sea level rise, coastal communities face unprecedented dangers, but a new study reveals that as flooding intensifies, disadvantaged populations will be the ones to experience some of the most severe burdens of climate change.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 29, 2023

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 29 – “Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors told David Bank of ImpactAlpha. The post Holiday List No. 3: Eight ImpactAlpha podcasts to ring in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Most cotton garments end up as landfill. Seattle’s Evrnu says it can recycle those items.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Southern Company EPRI and Southern Company recently announced the plenary speakers for the Electrification International Conference & Exposition, scheduled for March 12-14, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. Kicking off the event will be EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor, and Southern Company President and CEO Chris Womack. EPRI’s Electrification conference is the only event that brings together the entire ecosystem of electric technologies and stakeholders to collaborate around e-mobility (consumer

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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.

John Englart

DECEMBER 23, 2023

So on the Friday before Christmas both the Federal Labor Government and New South Wales Labor Government have approved new Fossil Fuel Projects. It is called putting out the trash. To try and limit scrutiny and media coverage of these actions. To release them when the public are focussed on christmas and holidays.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Forests on the west slope of Oregon's Cascade Range experienced fire much more often between 1500 and 1895 than had been previously thought.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Currently Electric Vehicles (EVs) are ramping up production very rapidly. Ditto Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), mostly used in conjunction with renewable energy production from Wind and Solar-Power. The primary chemistries used in conjunction with the batteries in both of the products is Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) Batteries. Although other non-lithium chemistries have been proposed, Li-Ion is.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog U.S. Bank and the Veterans Business Outreach Center of the Dakotas are coming together to support veteran business owners, most recently through their first first U.S. Bank-sponsored event in Fargo, North Dakota. “Many active duty military dentists, optometrists and medical doctors want to pursue their dream of owning their own practice,” said event participant Jeramie Eimers, who is based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and is a business developm

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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.