GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Joel Makower. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 02:11. The chickens are coming home to roost. Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S. became a summertime flood zone, even before an annual hurricane season so bad that the government is running out of names to attach to them, even before Colorado saw a 100°F heatwave swan dive into a 12?
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 14, 2020 –– Milton Friedman’s 1970 essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” turned 50 this week. It has not aged well. Corporate and business voices assembled across the media landscape to bury Friedman’s doctrine of “shareholder primacy” and champion the advent of “stakeholder capitalism” responsible to workers, communities, The post Fifty years later, resetting capitalism from shareholders to stakeholders appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
A new analysis released on 15 September by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, appears to show that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards. In the week preceding the study’s announcement, average congestion on roads outside the central London Congestion Charging zone was 18% higher than last year.
Sustainable Development Network
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Over 280 participants from research institutions, businesses, NGO and the public sector took part in the workshops entitled “Transitioning towards a sustainable economy”. Believing that transformational change is required to reach the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), between June 16 and July 9 2020, SDSN Switzerland and the National Research Programme (NRP 73) organised a series of thought provoking online workshops on sustainable construction and housing; digital innovation for sustaina
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.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Why agtech is critical for regenerative agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/17/2020 - 01:30. Early this month, McDonald’s made headlines when it teamed with Cargill, Target and The Nature Conservancy to put $8.5 million toward helping Nebraska farmers cultivate regenerative agriculture practices over the next five years. The initiative, like others emerging in the past several years from Cargill , General Mills, Danone and other big companies in the food system, is aimed at promoting natural ca
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 15 – Bridges Fund Management and AEA Investors filed to float a $400 public offering for AEA-Bridges Impact Corp., a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC, that will hunt for mid-cap private companies to take public. New York-based AEA, with $15 billion in assets under management, will tap Bridges’ impact investing experience to.
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Tobias Webb
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Innovation Forum held an online workshop on this difficult yet vitally important topic, over three hours, on September 9 th 2020. Some bullet point notes, unattributed, are below. We must thank the following individuals for their remarks on the topic and general contributions. Speakers included: Rod Taylor, global director, forests program, WRI. Mansuetus Darto, secretary-general, Oil Palm Smallholders Union, Indonesia.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. Skyven CEO Arun Gupta said the idea came when he applied the thinking behind his Ph.D. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 16 – Mexico has issued a $890 million Sustainable Development Goal bond. Proceeds from the seven-year bond will target vulnerable populations across Mexico, with a city-level focus, covering SDGs for hunger, health, education, work and infrastructure. The issuance is the first sovereign SDG bond, according to the U.N. United Nations Development Programme.
Sustainable Development Network
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
A Road to Bern event of SDSN Switzerland in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, significant progress was made with regards to analyzing the progress of its implementation. A formal system has been put in place under the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) to which UN member states are regularly invited to submit voluntary national reviews.
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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.
MSCI
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Five years ago, the United Nations adopted 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an effort to end extreme poverty, reduce inequity and protect the planet by 2030. Using a new tool, we examine whether companies are walking the walk.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Sustainable Innovation in the Textile Industry. As global apparel consumption continues to rise—an expected increase of 60% by 2030—that growth could have a dangerous impact on the environment. Currently, 87% of textiles are landfilled or incinerated and 10% of GHG emissions come from fashion industry. As Earth’s resources become more and more constrained, the global fashion industry is looking toward innovative materials and strategies to reduce its environmental impact and carbon footprint.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 15 – Netherlands-based Lumos sells solar systems to West African businesses and households that lack reliable access to energy. Lumos sells 80-watt and 160-watt systems on a pay-as-you-go basis through partnerships with mobile operators like MTN. An investment from the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. aims to help Lumos produce and sell 160,000.
Sustainable Development Network
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission has released their first official statement , to mark the occasion of the opening of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly on Sept 15, 2020. The Statement highlights ten priority actions for the coming months: 1. Track down the origins of the virus in an open, scientific, and unbiased way not influenced by geopolitical agendas. 2.
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
Tobias Webb
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Here’s an insightful blog post from the excellent Chain Reaction research team on what may lie ahead when it comes to policy measures around imported deforestation in European goods. Well worth a read, below, and also here. The Chain: European Lawmakers Propose Legislation to Reduce Deforestation in Supply Chains, Putting Them at Odds With Producer Countries.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Circular Electronics: Creating a Responsible Supply Chain, Part 1. Can we create a responsible circular supply chain for circular electronics? This more in-depth series of case studies will explore how electronics companies are designing waste out of products and offerings, including easily repairable and modular consumer electronics. This discussion explores deeper nuances of the circular economy approaches to recycling electronics.".
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 14 – The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium is tackling a glaring lack of investor and philanthropic attention. The Appalachian Community Fund, the Black Belt Community Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities and TruthSpeaks Consulting launched a fund to finance capacity building for local organizations serving Black women and girls and grants.
Eco-Business
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
While the amount of climate-friendly stimulus spending leaves much to be desired, some countries are making strides toward greening their economic recovery. How can countries expand their green recovery efforts?
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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
Sense and Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 15, 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 second 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.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Circular Electronics: Designing Out Waste. . Hold the phone! Can waste be designed out of consumer electronics? Building off of the established principles of the Responsible Business Alliance’s (RBA’s) previous session, this more in-depth series of case studies will explore how electronics companies are designing waste out of products and offerings, including easily repairable and modular consumer electronics.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Take a deep breath. For most of this week, the word was “emergency.” Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the air quality index hovered around 200, on the cusp of “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy,” while in parts of Oregon and Washington, it topped 400 – “hazardous.” Thousands are still displaced. The post The Week in impact investing: Breathe appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Eco-Business
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
A new report released by Friends of the Earth says that the 'big three' asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street — have voted against corporate shareholder resolutions to report on or prevent deforestation a total of 16 times.
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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.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address the plastics crisis – the plastics industry, consumer brands and retailers have obstructed and undermined proven legislative solutions to the crisis for decades. Based on research and investigations in over 15 countries across five continents, Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions , according to the authors, exposes how t
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Scaling Circular Fashion in North America: Part 2. What will it take to transition the fashion industry toward circularity at scale? 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.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Investors need to build a broader toolbox for advancing racial justice. To do that, we need to experiment with strategies that demonstrate what a total racial justice approach looks like. Since the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent demonstrations, many investors are considering the ways in which they can mitigate racial justice. However, they.
Eco-Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Global oil demand could soon fall rapidly in the face of stronger climate action by at least 10 per cent this decade and by as much as 50 per cent over the next 20 years, analysis of the latest energy outlook from oil major BP reveals.
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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.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The carbon emissions associated with Scotland’s waste in 2018 dropped 11% on the previous year to reach the lowest level since official recording began, according to the Scottish Government-funded circular economy expert Zero Waste Scotland. The publication, “The Carbon Footprint of Scotland’s Waste – Carbon Metric Report for 2017 and 2018”, tracks the impact of the country’s waste, from its creation to disposal, and data released today reveals 10.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide e
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Scaling the Market for Post-Consumer Recycled Content. What will it take to scale the domestic market for post-consumer recycled content? The demand for recycled plastics has skyrocketed — so much so that brands and packaging producers are experiencing limited supply. This is due, in part, to ambitious recycled content commitments by CPG giants across the nation and globe.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Can asset managers, RIAs and other fiduciaries act both as responsible fiduciaries as well as promote long-term societal good through their investment actions? This question has taken on increased significance in recent months as ESG investing has gained a broader foothold among institutional investors – at least in terms of awareness. Reporting made manifest earlier.
Eco-Business
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
With rising risks to pricing, sector profitability and coal asset values, Indonesian policymakers should let market forces run their course and allow weak coal miners to go bust, states a new report.
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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.
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