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Why Unilever’s downshift on sustainability is good news

GreenBiz

Environmental and social commitments are aligning more closely with tangible financial goals, a sign of sustainability’s maturity in business.

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Indonesia’s solar goes to water with opening of region’s biggest floating PV facility

Renew Economy

The third-largest floating PV plant in the world has been launched in Indonesia, with plans in the works to add an extra 500MW of additional capacity. The post Indonesia’s solar goes to water with opening of region’s biggest floating PV facility appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Rita Steele had planned a West Coast summer road trip as a respite from the demands of her sustainability work at Simon Fraser University. The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. “Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says.

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Truist Foundation Announces Support for UnidosUS To Expand Signature Workforce Development Program

3BL Media

TAMPA, Fla., November 9, 2023 /3BL/ - Today, Truist Foundation announced a $250,000 grant to UnidosUS , the nation's largest Latine civil rights organization, to support its workforce development goal of transforming the workforce ecosystem to ensure Latines have access to quality jobs with clear pathways to prosperity. UnidosUS will use the grant funding to help expand its Latinx in Business program to three new sites in the Tampa Bay area; Phoenix, Ariz. and Durham, N.C.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Unilever CEO signals radical shift in sustainability agenda

GreenBiz

Under new Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher, sustainability will become part of a composite score by which brand managers will evaluate performance.

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Gas industry reached for tobacco playbook after science showed that gas stoves are harmful

Renew Economy

The gas industry was told by science in the 1970s that gas stoves were harmful to health, so it reached into the tobacco industry's playbook of denial. The post Gas industry reached for tobacco playbook after science showed that gas stoves are harmful appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Designing cities for 21st-century weather

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations' exposures to weather extremes under climate conditions at the end of the 21st century. They used a data-driven model to predict how urban areas across the country will grow by 2100, and found that how a city is laid out or organized spatially has the potential to reduce population exposures to future weather extremes.

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Filling this 'forgotten element' of the energy transition is critical to net zero

GreenBiz

The pipeline of investable renewable energy and low carbon infrastructure projects in developing nations needs to be up to nine times larger, warns the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

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ARENA reports “unprecedented” interest in community batteries

Renew Economy

ARENA receives applications request for $1.3 billion of community battery proposals, more than 10 times the $120 million available under its funding program. The post ARENA reports “unprecedented” interest in community batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Publisher's Note: Slow and steady will not win the climate race

Corporate Knights

The chief executive of a large insurance company recently asked me what the best way would be to catalyze his sector to rise to the climate challenge (meaning align their insurance policies to support climate action as well as their general account investments). Would it be to lead by example – show a measured and steady path to net-zero by 2050 with meaningful interim targets, something the rest of the industry could relate to – or a more radical all-in approach that might be difficult for othe

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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How to develop geopolitical resilience

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Geopolitical tensions have been rising, creating significant risks for companies, especially those operating internationally. Here is how to plan ahead.

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Financing the end of plastic pollution

GreenBiz

Sponsored: The Global Plastics Treaty must include a financing plan that supports the countries most impacted by plastic pollution and least equipped to deal with it.

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Bowen says accelerating switch to renewables essential to “keep the lights on”

Renew Economy

In a speech in Adelaide, federal energy minister doubles down on 82% renewables target and hints at new policy initiatives to "amplify" efforts to reach it. The post Bowen says accelerating switch to renewables essential to “keep the lights on” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Green to the core? Top business schools are drilling sustainability into their core curricula

Corporate Knights

When Eban Goodstein earned his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 1989, sustainability had not yet entered the vocabulary of his field. When Stephanie Schleimer was a young aspiring academic, preparing to teach her first course on corporate strategy, she couldn’t find a single textbook that mentioned values, well-being or sustainability.

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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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Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60%, according to study by Columbia and Stanford researchers

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time.

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Master class: Planning your transition for later career and life

GreenBiz

Here's how late-career sustainability professionals can effectively navigate the transition and identify priorities and interests.

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Queensland grid hits a new solar peak – 71.2 per cent of state demand

Renew Economy

Queensland grid hits a new solar peak of 71.2 per cent, relegating coal to a minor role in the middle of the day. The post Queensland grid hits a new solar peak – 71.2 per cent of state demand appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Succession: Climate edition

Corporate Knights

In the early 2000s, Sylvie Trottier found herself trying to convince her father that climate change was real and dangerous. As an environmental studies student at McGill University at a time when the climate crisis was far from a household name, she knew much more about it than her father, Lorne Trottier. The difference between him and the next skeptical early-aughts dad, though, was that he had the means to do something about it.

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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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Resilience during uncertainty: What industrial leaders must know

McKinsey Sustainabilty

McKinsey’s Global Resilience Survey reveals how leaders in advanced industries view the current landscape and highlights the challenges ahead as they manage uncertainty.

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Listen up, utilities: The EV industry is telling you what it needs

GreenBiz

Utility queuing challenges, standardizing charging equipment and improving financing mechanisms are driving the conversation on EVs.

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Ørsted blames lack of ships for New Jersey offshore wind failure and massive write downs

Renew Economy

World's biggest offshore wind developer blames a ship shortage for the decision to dump its US Ocean Winds project. There are lessons for Australia's nascent offshore wind industry too. The post Ørsted blames lack of ships for New Jersey offshore wind failure and massive write downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Are MBA programs teaching social purpose?

Corporate Knights

In partnership with Coast Capital and the Canadian Purpose Economy Project In 2022, Corporate Knights published The Social Purpose Transition Pathway , a report that graded companies on how well they were implementing their social purpose. This year, we have carried the social purpose theme to the educational realm. A social purpose business model goes beyond focusing on profit and considers the value that is being generated for society.

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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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Ten key requirements for a systemic approach to climate adaptation

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Civilization has been built on a foundation of climate stability that no longer exists. Adaptation is now as important as mitigation, and so is understanding its interrelated requirements.

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Digitizing the path to decarbonization

GreenBiz

Sponsored: To drive climate action, we must move fast and move together — and we can do so by combining the real and the digital worlds.

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“Nobody is safe:” Burning of fossil fuels send global temperatures to hottest on record

Renew Economy

"People know that things are weird, but they don't they don't necessarily know why it's weird. They don't connect back to the fact that we're still burning coal, oil and natural gas." The post “Nobody is safe:” Burning of fossil fuels send global temperatures to hottest on record appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Queensland announces cash grants for new gas exploration, new coal mine extension, to ramp up ocean warming destruction of Great Barrier Reef

John Englart

Cash grants for gas exploration in Queensland announced by the Queensland Labor Government, Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Cameron Dick, and Minister for Resources Scott Stewart.

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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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Untapped opportunities for health system pharmacies

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Two McKinsey surveys of health system pharmacy leaders reveal that pharmacies could do more to manage margins, improve patient access, and position themselves as strategic sources of growth.

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How Unilever uses AI to cut petrochemicals out of laundry soap

GreenBiz

Unilever used AI to identify replacement ingredients for its laundry and cleaning products five times faster than previously possible.

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Sun Cable eyes Tasmania for multi-billion dollar factory for sub-sea cables

Renew Economy

Sun Cable may build a multi-billion dollar facility in Tasmania to make high voltage sub-sea cables for its ambitious renewable energy export plans. The post Sun Cable eyes Tasmania for multi-billion dollar factory for sub-sea cables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Buffers

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Thriving in turbulence. As we’ve seen in past moments of volatility, commitments to positive impact are again helping. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Buffers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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.