Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Governments are being called on to put some regulatory muscle behind corporate net-zero pledges to ensure they don’t amount to mere greenwashing. . That’s a key recommendation from a United Nations expert panel led by former federal environment minister Catherine McKenna and comprising 17 business and government leaders from around the world. . “We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing,” said UN Secretary-General Ant ó nio Guterres at the launch of a report by the panel , which he

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Circular economy strategies can complement decarbonization measures and support scaling the clean energy transition.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Rooftop PV and large scale solar producer nearly 60 per cent of generation for first time, sending grid demand to record low and eating further into coal's lunch. The post Solar nears 60pct of grid generation for first time, taking biggest bite yet out of coal’s lunch appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

How our colleagues are collaborating with organizations to improve global vaccination rates. SOURCE: Merck & Co., Inc. DESCRIPTION: Providing vaccines to some of the hardest-to-reach places around the world. We’re steadfast and dedicated to discovering, developing, supplying and delivering vaccines to help prevent diseases around the world. However, we alone can’t achieve the broadest possible access and distribution to our vaccines.

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Just a few years ago, much of the business community viewed climate advocates with indifference or skepticism. Today, companies representing 40% of the stock market have committed to science-based targets around reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. . These companies are not run by wide-eyed idealists. In many cases, these businesses are already making billions of dollars supplying climate solutions to the market.

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Cisco CSR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The word is out! Cisco Secure Endpoint’s effectiveness is off the charts in protecting your enterprise environment. This is not just a baseless opinion; however, the facts are rooted in actual test results from the annual AV-Comparative EPR Test Report published in October 2022. Not only did Secure Endpoint knock it out of the park in enterprise protection; but Cisco Secure Endpoint obtained the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) per agent at $587 over 5 years.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

SOURCE: JetBlue Airways. DESCRIPTION: Now flying is JetBlue's newly redesigned Vets in Blue plane, making its Veterans Day debut. JetBlue is proud to support our U.S. active duty military, retired military and veterans, National Guard and Reserve, and their families year-round, offering several different military discounts and benefits for travel throughout the airline's network.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At business schools worldwide, topics on sustainability, climate risk and income inequality are popping up in MBA programs, with new content, certificates and research. Laudable, say youth activists, sustainable business leaders and those tracking school performance, but still not good enough to equip tomorrow’s corporate leaders for purpose beyond profit.

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Cisco CSR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Lots of exciting things happening at Cisco, and for our customers, all to help them better prepare for what’s next. Case in point, we just returned from a very successful Cisco Partner Summit where the spotlight shined on cyber security. When our executives were on stage talking about solutions, the attendees heard a very catchy phrase; “if it’s connected, it’s protected.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The world’s first commercial offshore floating solar plant has been commissioned off the east of China, integrated with offshore wind. The post Offshore floating solar plant linked with offshore wind in world first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On Sunday, November 13th at 7:30 pm ET, Pete Rodriguez will discuss ek? Solutions’ modular housing offerings. SOURCE: Land Betterment Corporation. DESCRIPTION: FISHERS, Ind., November 10, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”), an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, is pleased to share that Peter Rodriguez is a guest speaker o

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. A risk-management class, once strictly concerned with fiscal threats to corporate profits, now assesses climate impacts on bottom-line decisions. These are just a couple of the upgrades that have made Australia’s Griffith Business School the most sustainable MBA program in the world, according to Corporate Knights, for the third year in a row.

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Cisco CSR

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cisco’s DNA Center (DNAC) is a powerful network controller and management platform that enables secure access to networks and applications. Cisco DNA Center focuses on simplifying customer IT operations in Enterprise and Campus networks through visibility, insights, automation, programmability, and security (see Figure 1). Cisco’s CX Success Portfolio is a set of services that accelerate customers’ time to value through the technology lifecycle journey, focused on integrating experts, insights,

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Neoen's Blythe battery marks the latest in a series of ground-breaking projects pushing the boundaries of the technology and challenging how we think about the grid. The post Neoen finds another game changing use and a new frontier for a very big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

TOGETHER, WE MAKE AN IMPACT! SOURCE: DICK'S Sporting Goods. DESCRIPTION: We're excited to bring you the first edition of our quarterly giving series from The DICK'S Sporting Goods Foundation. Each quarter, we’ll highlight the great work being done in support of the Foundation by teammates across the company. Throughout the second quarter, we: Went back to school and continued our lasting partnership with UNITED at Twin Rivers school.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The 27th UN climate summit, COP27, which got underway in Egypt on Sunday, seems to have been pre-ordained as a modest contribution to the increasingly fraught fight against climate change. . Seen as an occasion for developing nations to express their mounting frustrations with the lack of action and resources from the Global North, COP27 has been marred by low expectations and the absence of some national leaders (including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose government is surely aware of poll

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Impakter. Did Elon Musk Buy Twitter to Flirt With China and the Far-Right? Elon Musk – enigmatic entrepreneur, triple-CEO, and free speech absolutist – is the planet’s richest man in a world where money unfortunately but undeniably equals power. In the ultimate flex on April 14 of this year, Musk bid a $44 bn chunk of that power on the internet’s de facto front-page, worldwide stage, and proxy […].

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

AGL Energy kicks off construction of ARENA-backed Broken Hill battery, a 50MW/50MWh lithium-ion BESS in the far west of New South Wales. The post AGL breaks ground on Broken Hill big battery as AGM looms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A new video demonstrates how West Virginia University and Rockwell Automation together devised a solution for cleaning up acid mine draining at the watershed level. SOURCE: Rockwell Automation. DESCRIPTION: Acid mine drainage (AMD) from abandoned coal mines is preventing life from thriving in rivers and streams. A new video (above) demonstrates how West Virginia University (WVU) and Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) together devised a solution for cleaning up this pollutant at the watershed level.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In a major step towards the establishment of a new sustainability reporting system in Europe, the European Parliament adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on Thursday, in a 525 to 60 vote (with 28 abstentions). The vote sets the stage for a dramatic overhaul and expansion of corporate sustainability reporting in the EU to be implemented by the beginning of 2024.

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Utiliity Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law in August significantly improves the economics for large-scale battery storage projects in the U.S. For the first time, standalone storage systems will be eligible for a 30 percent investment tax credit (ITC) — and up to 70 percent with additional incentives.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

ACEN Australia hits go on construction of Stubbo solar farm, with approvals for a big battery, after securing a connection to the grid. The post Construction begins on 400MW solar farm in central-west NSW, with battery to follow appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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.

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

SOURCE: Northern Trust. DESCRIPTION: As school districts face a growing teacher shortage, Northern Trust is partnering with the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) to help fund a first-of-its-kind Pay for Success teacher residency program. A lead investor for an innovative Denver, Colo.-based project, Northern Trust, along with other private organizations—including The Gates Family Foundation and The Denver Foundation—is investing $1.4 million to help the PEBC scale its teacher resi

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Stacey Higginbotham

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This week’s show kicks off with a discussion of the lawsuit between Arm and Qualcomm amid accusations that Arm is changing its licensing model. We cover what has been said, and what it might mean for the IoT before heading into some industrial news. Arduino has announced a programmable logic controller (PLC) in conjunction with Finder called the Arduino Opta.

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Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Other topics include fighting greenwashing and supporting climate regulations. The post UN Net-Zero Guidance Calls for End of Fossil Fuels Financial Support appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

First batch of wind turbine blades for the $3bn Andrew Forrest-backed Clarke Creek renewable energy precinct set sail for port of Gladstone. The post “Massive pieces of kit:” Wind blades set sail for Andrew Forrest’s huge hybrid project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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.

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Company to Partner in Asphalt Shingle Recycling Pilot. SOURCE: Owens Corning. DESCRIPTION: Owens Corning has taken an important step toward reaching its circular economy aspiration with the announcement of enhanced shingle recycling efforts. By 2030, the company intends to recycle two million tons of shingles per year in the U.S. . “Owens Corning has a strong sustainability foundation and has set ambitious goals.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Biden administration announced today its new proposed Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, requiring federal government suppliers to disclose emissions and climate-related financial risk data, and to set science-based emissions reduction targets. The new initiative forms part of the administration’s Federal Sustainability Plan, launched by President Biden in December, which outlines a series of goals and initiatives for the U.S. federal government to achieve net zero emissions

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Stacey Higginbotham

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) held a launch event for the Matter home interoperability specification on Thursday, and amid the flurry of self-congratulations there was a bit of Matter news and a ton of release information detailing when devices would get updated to Matter and how. Most notably, new releases will come out twice a year and the organization already has working groups in place for eight new device types: security cameras, robot vacuums, big appliances, energy management

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Cisco CSR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Presence of mind. Jabber is so last decades. Webex and its competition are the best modern means of messaging. But Cisco IM&P , a companion server to Cisco Call Manager, is still the best way to subscribe to user presence updates. Suppose you have a group of employees to whom you assign tasks as they come in. If you can watch the presence of that group, you’ll know who is available, who is away, who is on the phone, etc.

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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.