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Can crypto create the world’s first authentic global carbon marketplace?

GreenBiz

The World Bank is teaming up with Bram Cohen’s San Francisco startup to prove that cryptocurrency can be part of the solution, not a problem, for climate change.

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The 100 most sustainable corporations of 2022

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights’ 2022 ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations is based on a rigorous assessment of nearly 7,000 public companies with revenue over US$1 billion. 2022 G100 Rank 2021 G100 Rank Company Country Climate commitments Overall Score. 1 21 Vestas Wind Systems A/S Denmark 1.5°C, SBTi A+. 2 24 Chr Hansen Holding A/S Denmark 1.5°C, SBTi A. 3 43 Autodesk Inc United States of America SBTi A. 4 1 Schneider Electric SE France 1.5°C, SBTi A. 5 40 City Developments Ltd Singapore

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Solar and wind are cheaper than ever: So why the EU energy price crisis?

Renew Economy

If renewables are now so much cheaper, why can’t consumers buy electricity directly from them and avoid paying the gas and carbon costs? The post Solar and wind are cheaper than ever: So why the EU energy price crisis? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Relational Work of Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation

By Katherine Milligan , Juanita Zerda & John Kania. Sometimes we lose sight of a simple truth about systems: They are made up of people. Despite all of the frameworks and tools at our disposal and all of our learning as a field of practice, purely technical, rational approaches to systems change will not make much of a dent in shifting power or altering our most deeply held beliefs.

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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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New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis

GreenBiz

Sponsored: The new Sustainable Forestry Initiative 2022 standards will ensure healthy forests that lead to benefits such as avoiding deforestation and fighting climate change.

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Time for a fair phase out of fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Divestment from fossil fuels is accelerating around the world. But as forward-thinking investors move their money and fossil companies sell off their most polluting and criticized resources, companies looking to generate short-term gains are snapping them up. While this may shuffle assets off one company’s books, the world’s carbon emissions keep climbing, risking our safety, security and economic well-being.

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BlocPower secures $30 million from Microsoft to retrofit old city buildings

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 18 — Brooklyn-based BlocPower has worked with utilities, government agencies and property owners to retrofit more than 1,200 buildings for low-. The post BlocPower secures $30 million from Microsoft to retrofit old city buildings appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GM’s BrightDrop gears up to electrify massive delivery fleets of Walmart, FedEx

GreenBiz

Electric vehicle and last-mile delivery company BrightDrop, a subsidiary of General Motors, kicked off 2022 with splashy new deals with Walmart and FedEx.

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Global 100 companies prove sustainability is good for business

Corporate Knights

The global pandemic continued to highlight society’s inequalities in 2021, while heat waves, wildfires and floods reminded us of the urgency of the climate crisis. It was a year when environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues took centre stage in business, government and all walks of life. Approximately 90% of countries are now covered by some kind of net-zero target, as are hundreds of the largest publicly traded companies.

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Energy, ESG Issues Impacting Supply Chain Disruptions

Environment + Energy Leader

Several issues including high energy prices and demand and the increased priority of ESG objectives will continue to impact supply chains in 2022, according to a new report. The post Energy, ESG Issues Impacting Supply Chain Disruptions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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New utility-scale solar needs far less land than a decade ago, LBNL says

Renewable Energy World

Utility-scale solar energy deployments are not as land intensive as they were a decade ago, thanks to improved power and energy densities. As a result, developers and others who turn to older benchmarks for solar module power and energy density will “significantly overstate” land requirements. Those are the findings of a new study by researchers at the U.S.

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Embracing a wetter future, the Dutch turn to floating homes

GreenBiz

These communities are inspiring more ambitious projects in flood-prone nations as far-flung as French Polynesia and the Maldives.

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Wind giant sweeps into top spot of Global 100

Corporate Knights

Few companies can claim to be more at the heart of the energy transition than this year’s Corporate Knights Global 100 most sustainable company , Vestas Wind Systems. Although the Danish company has roots going back more than a century, the Vestas brand is a mere 75 years old. The firm was once a global leader in hydraulic cranes, but it is now the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, responsible for almost a fifth of global installed wind power capacity.

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Traceability Systems an Important Supply Chain Tool for Companies and Investors

Environment + Energy Leader

Supply Chain traceability systems are becoming more important for companies to track their production every step of the way for sustainability, accountability and financial benefits. The post Traceability Systems an Important Supply Chain Tool for Companies and Investors appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Three: Behaviour-Based Detections with Secure Network Analytics

Cisco CSR

In part one of this Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX series , we introduced the notion of risk-based extended detection with Cisco SecureX – the idea that a user can prioritise detections into incidents based on their idea of what constitutes risk in their environments and then extend those detections with enrichments from other products.

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Merchants Fleet goes fast and furious on electrification

GreenBiz

The fleet management company’s electrification guru believes EV adoption for fleet vehicles will take off in 2022, and the company is spending big to lead the charge.

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Fossil fuel expansion will be the litmus test for banks’ net-zero promises

Corporate Knights

Civil society organizations are gearing up to hold financial industry players accountable on the lofty commitments they made at COP26 in November. Many of the world’s biggest banks face the enormous challenge of realigning their entire loans and investment operations in the coming years to put themselves on a credible path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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GM Announces It Will Expand Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Beyond Vehicles

Environment + Energy Leader

In an effort to accelerate its growth as a platform innovator, GM will take HYDROTEC beyond its use in vehicles to mobile power generation. The post GM Announces It Will Expand Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Beyond Vehicles appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Copia Global secures $50 million to deliver goods to rural African consumers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 20 — African economies rely heavily on spending by the continent’s approximately 750 million low- to middle-income consumers. Kenya’s Copia Global, The post Copia Global secures $50 million to deliver goods to rural African consumers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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This Puerto Rican farm-to-fork app is creating a sustainable food system on the island

GreenBiz

Puerto Rico imports 85 percent of its food. This app helps people buy the other 15.

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Five ways corporations can close the ‘say–do’ gap on sustainability

Corporate Knights

The disparity between what many political leaders promise and their actions has been particularly stark when it comes to the climate crisis. . In recent years, this gap has widened. In order to be on track to deliver on their most recent climate pledges, G7 and BRICS countries needed to reduce their carbon emissions by 822 million tonnes in 2019, the most recent year for which countries have reported.

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Sustainability Targets a Priority for Businesses as Challenges Exist

Environment + Energy Leader

A new survey from Deloitte shows more business executives say they are concerned about climate impacts as they attempt to implement sustainability practices in their operations. The post Sustainability Targets a Priority for Businesses as Challenges Exist appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

By Charles F. Kutscher , University of Colorado Boulder and Jeffrey Logan , University of Colorado Boulder. In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Scientific meetings were held, voluminous reports were written, and national pledges were made, but because fossil fuels were comparatively cheap, little concrete action was taken to reduce carbon emissions.

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Get it together or keep it apart: Fleet charging and building management

GreenBiz

Owning fleets of even a few EVs requires senior management be prepared to make critical tradeoffs and decisions before the organization drives its first EV off the dealer’s lot.

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Investors demand more corporations conduct ‘racial audits’

Corporate Knights

Fasten your seat belt. Annual shareholder meeting season is coming up, and North America’s biggest companies can expect a bumpy ride. Activist shareholders are gearing up to challenge more corporations on how they manage diversity, equity and inclusion. What used to be a box-checking exercise has gained real urgency after two social upheavals – the unequal impacts of COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in the spring of 2020 – revealed the enduring hold of sy

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Harsco Environmental Relaunches SteelPhalt to Expand Sustainable Asphalt Operations

Environment + Energy Leader

By utilizing recycled materials such as steel slag, a waste byproduct of steel smelting, SteelPhalt reduces the carbon footprint of road-laying by 40%. The post Harsco Environmental Relaunches SteelPhalt to Expand Sustainable Asphalt Operations appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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.

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What if women literally built the world they want to see? | Emily Pilloton-Lam

TEDxInnovations

Only four percent of construction workers are female -- that's totally unacceptable, but it's also a huge opportunity both for women and for the trades, says youth educator and builder Emily Pilloton-Lam. She makes the case for putting power (and power tools) into the hands of young women and gender-expansive youth, dreaming of inclusive construction sites -- and daring to ask: What if women literally built the world they want to see?

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Carbon offset market faces uncertain long-term outlook

GreenBiz

Influential analyst firm argues prices for carbon offsets could reach as high as $120 a ton by 2050 or as low as $47 a ton.

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Six practical actions for building the cloud talent you need

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Despite a shortage of cloud talent, top companies are finding ways to get past table stakes and build the capabilities needed.

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Engine No. 1 backs Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Taipei-based Gogoro builds zero-emission and electric smartscooters with swappable batteries. It recently brought its battery swapping stations to mainland. The post Engine No. 1 backs Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis