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The shift to a low-carbon economy highlights overlap between ESG and finance

GreenBiz

Supermajors are acknowledging write-downs, which pose threats to investors — but new standards could help them get on the same page.

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Celebrate 18 fellow ‘Agents of Impact’ you met on ImpactAlpha

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Before Greta Thunberg was TIME’s Person of Year, the young Swedish activist was an ImpactAlpha Agent of Impact for jumpstarting global climate strikes that have put business and political leaders on notice. Each week, ImpactAlpha highlights Agents of Impact who are making things happen, have something to say and whom other agents will want to know.

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Research partnership aims to put mattress waste to bed

Envirotec Magazine

A new partnership is aiming to forge a more sustainable approach to mattress design and disposal, tackling the estimated 600,000 mattresses disposed of in Scotland each year. Zero Waste Scotland, Scotland’s circular economy experts, and the National Bed Federation (NBF) are to work together on a three-year research project to increase mattress recycling and encourage more sustainable design.

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Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Ayala's Vickie Tan, SDG advocator

Eco-Business

In this interview with Eco-Business, Vickie talks about how sustainability can be integrated into one of the most unsustainable places—shopping malls—and shares her one unsustainable guilty pleasure.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Thrift-store shoppers, hand-me-down wearers and 8 scrappy startups making reuse possible

GreenBiz

Today’s burgeoning recommerce and online rental markets offer high-end gadgets and swanky fashion.

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Travis Scott Squads Up In The Tesla Cybertruck & ATV — New Music Video

CleanTechnica

Travis Scott has a new music video out and guess what's in it? You probably already know thanks to Viv* sharing the clip with everyone on Twitter. Tesla's Cybertruck and ATV as well as The Boring Company's "Not a flame thrower" make an appearance.

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2030 goals: Mattel aims for 100% recycled and recyclable toys

GreenBiz

Firm behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price plans to launch first toy made from and packaged in green materials in early 2020.

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It will take more than EV promises from car companies to limit climate change damage

GreenBiz

This next decade is crucial for the transition away from gasoline, and electric vehicle makers and climate-minded politicians are not going far enough.

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Corporate sustainability leaders share excitements, fears for 2020

GreenBiz

Companies across industries put the impetus on ESG action in the New Year.

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Closing the loop on 2019

GreenBiz

Bringing you the five biggest stories of the circular economy from this past year, and some predictions for the next.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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.

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An ode to the sustainability profession

GreenBiz

Sustainability, it turns out, has both rhyme and reason.

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The 2019 sustainability year in review, in haiku

GreenBiz

A baker's dozen of developments.

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Best of 2019 Video Vault: 5 videos that kept us thinking in 2019

GreenBiz

Equity and plastic and leadership — oh my!

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Strengthening health systems to end deadly epidemics

Eco-Business

If the world is to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030, national governments and international development institutions must work together to build stronger health systems.

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

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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The coolest sustainability innovations of 2019

Eco-Business

From river trash shepherds to food waste-fighting cockroaches, here are 19 of our favourite sustainability innovations of 2019.

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The Sensor Show

Eco-Business

In partnership with automatica, The Sensor Show is proud to connect the global sensor ecosystem with emerging technologies and IoT for the manufacturing, automotive and transportation industries.

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6 sustainability trends that GreenBiz readers engaged with most in 2019

GreenBiz

Our most popular stories of 2019 covered everything from single use-plastic to the built environment.

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Electric Vehicle Ownership: Purchasing vs. Leasing

CleanTechnica

For our new report, Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams (2019), we investigated whether EV drivers bought their cars new, bought them used, or leased them. The split was interesting. We then dug in deeper as well, for the first time ever, to learn a bit more about the cars they replaced, and why they went electric.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

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

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Charging Automation: Charging Startup ROCSYS Finishes Seed Investment Round

CleanTechnica

I am always saying how easy charging is. Well, in the Netherlands, ROCSYS, a charging automation company, just made it even simpler.

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Piaggio Launches Electric Ape w/ Battery Swap Tech

CleanTechnica

The Piaggio Ape (that's "app-eh," not "ape") E-City will feature a long flat battery mounted low in the chassis. That design will help the three-wheeler to maximize interior cargo volume while also aiding in dynamic handling. That's because the heavy battery will help naturally lower the E-City's center of gravity.

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Tesla Romance Mode Shenanigans

CleanTechnica

In a recent Scent Wedge product ad, Tesla Romance Mode is featured, and it's pretty adorable.

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Volkswagen Unveils Automatic EV Chargers For Parking Garages

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen is working on an automated EV charging system for parking garages to solve the conundrum of where to charge your electric car when you have no access to a charger of your own.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

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.

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How Would Warren & Sanders Pay For A Green New Deal?

CleanTechnica

Clean, renewable energy means big changes for the way that the US funds the energy sector.

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Turkey Jumps Into The EV Market

CleanTechnica

Turkey jumps into the EV market by unveiling its first "fully" domestically made electric vehicle, with goals of producing up to 175,000 EVs a year. This will cost around $3.7 billion over the next 13 years. This is refreshing to see — another country getting more serious about electric vehicles.

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Industry Analysts Expect EV Sales To Soar In UK & EU Beginning In 2020

CleanTechnica

Analysts in Europe and the UK say 2020 will be the "Year Of The Electric Car" as sales grow following the introduction of several new models.

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UK Renewables Outperform Gas For First Quarter Ever

CleanTechnica

New figures from the UK Government published just before Christmas showed that renewable energy generation across the country generated a record quarterly amount of electricity between July and September, outperforming natural gas for the first time ever. .

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

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.

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Cleaning Up Clean Meat: How Future Fields Is Replacing Fetal Bovine Serum

CleanTechnica

Future Fields is a startup working to produce a clean and affordable alternative to FBS, and wants to share it with the entire cellular agriculture industry. By focusing on the growth media, the company hopes to accelerate the growth and innovation of all clean meat startups. We spoke with Future Fields Co-Founder & Product Lead, Lejjy Gafour, to learn more about the company's work and its plans for the future.

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Rivian’s Tank Turn Is More Than A Silly Stunt

CleanTechnica

We awoke Christmas morning to a cool surprise from Rivian: its trucks and SUVs are going to be capable of tank turns! The short video was widely shared, but few people seemed to understand that it's actually a useful feature.

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FERC Sides With Fossil Fuels In Forcing Renewables To Match Prices

CleanTechnica

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a directive just a few days before Christmas which will require PJM Interconnection to raise prices of wind and solar power to be in line with the cost of fossil fuels.

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The Kazakh Tesla Guy Who Brought Tesla To Kazakhstan

CleanTechnica

Since its founding, Tesla has gradually expanded into more and more countries — the latest count is over 30. The newest frontier is Kazakhstan, where the company recently installed several Superchargers. To Americans, this Central Asian country may seem far from the beaten path, but in fact it’s a logical addition to the Tesla empire. It’s a relatively affluent nation with a highly strategic location — if you want to drive from Europe (or Russia) to China, you’ll almost certainly pass through Ka

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

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.