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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. .

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What the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement means for investors

Impact Alpha

After years of signaling its intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the United States made the decision official. The post What the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement means for investors appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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New research highlights impacts of weedkiller on wildlife

Envirotec Magazine

Water flea (Moina macrocopa) under microscope view. Prolonged exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of the weedkiller Roundup causes significant harm to keystone species according to new research at the University of Birmingham. A team in the University’s School of Biosciences used waterfleas, or Daphnia , to test the effects prolonged exposure to concentrations of Roundup deemed safe by regulatory agencies.

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Being able to Pivot Helped Manufacturing Survive. What will it Take to Thrive?

Daniel Burrus

In the United States, manufacturing is a huge sector. Its importance to our national and global economy is evident in how many white- and blue-collar jobs are integral in each process. From plastic injection molding to hydraulic valve assembly, manufacturing is likely found in nearly every industry. With such an all-encompassing sector, it’s no surprise that disruptions run rampant, though even during COVID-19, many manufacturing businesses were deemed essential, keeping their doors open and emp

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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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5 circular economy questions for 2021

GreenBiz

5 circular economy questions for 2021. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 01:00. As I begin to think about the year of content and coverage ahead, I thought I’d start things off by sharing some big questions I’ll be asking in 2021 — plus some predictions on how they might be answered. . 1. Will companies align circular economy initiatives with climate goals, or continue to treat these as discrete initiatives?

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Medical Credit Fund blends $19.2 million to finance Africa’s frontline health clinics

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 13 – Small, privately-run clinics are often the only providers of essential health services in remote and low-income parts of Africa. The post Medical Credit Fund blends $19.2 million to finance Africa’s frontline health clinics appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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What Biden’s Climate Plan Means for US Utilities

MSCI

Joe Biden is targeting net-zero carbon emissions in the United States by 2050, but the target date for electricity generation would come 15 years sooner. Are the U.S. utilities sector and investors prepared for net-zero emissions by 2035?

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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

GreenBiz

How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy. Bob Kerr. Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. It has now proposed a new vision for a "toxic-free environment" and published a strategy for moving the EU towards that goal.

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Sustainability is the new new thing at the Consumer Electronics Show

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 14 – Last January, some 170,000 attendees and 4,400 exhibitors flocked to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The. The post Sustainability is the new new thing at the Consumer Electronics Show appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Using the Sustainable Development Goals to guide the Covid-19 recovery

Sustainable Development Network

It’s time to get the globe back on track It is now clear that Covid-19 presents a major setback for the SDGs. At the time of writing, the virus has claimed almost a million lives and disrupted the entire world, sparing no region. An estimated 71 million people are expected to be pushed back into extreme poverty this year and as many as an additional 132 million people may go hungry.

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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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Is England losing the battle for better water quality?

Envirotec Magazine

Efforts to improve the water quality of England’s rivers, lakes and waterways are faltering – and unless policymakers recommit to the hard work of regular testing and monitoring, they risk losing control of this battle completely. Instrumentation firm Elementar UK is calling for all of those responsible for looking after the purity of England’s surface water bodies to pay close attention to recent data trends, which show that water quality across the country is failing to meet the necessar

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5 radical visions for a 2050 food system

GreenBiz

5 radical visions for a 2050 food system. Jim Giles. Fri, 01/15/2021 - 01:30. Just over a year ago, the Rockefeller Foundation put out a global call for proposals for radical reform of our food systems. More than 1,300 teams from 119 countries responded. The pile of submissions was whittled down to 79 semifinalists and then, last week, to 10 "bold ideas for tackling some of the world’s most pressing food systems challenges.

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Indian agtech venture CropIn raises $20 million

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 11 – Bangalore-based CropIn helps farmers analyze crop yields and risks with satellites, sensors and weather data. The 10-year-old company says it. The post Indian agtech venture CropIn raises $20 million appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Dark side to Big Tobacco’s Covid-19 CSR activities?

Eco-Business

Donations of ventilators and supplies are part of a ‘classic tactic’ by the industry to get close to governments and try to undermine health policies, say public health advocates. Should tobacco firms’ CSR activities be allowed?

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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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Early COVID-19 lockdowns had less impact on urban air quality than first believed

Envirotec Magazine

The first COVID-19 lockdowns led to significant changes in urban air pollution levels around the world, but the changes were smaller than expected – a new study appears to reveal. After developing new corrections for the impact of weather and seasonal trends, such as reduced NO2 emissions from winter to summer, the researchers evaluated changes in ambient NO2, O3 and fine particle (PM2.5) concentrations arising from lockdown emission changes in 11 global cities: Beijing, Wuhan, Milan, Rome, Madr

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GM's electric delivery foray, plus other mobility trends headlining CES

GreenBiz

GM's electric delivery foray, plus other mobility trends headlining CES. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 01:30. For the first time in its 54-year history, the world's largest tech show — the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — kicked off this week as an all-virtual event, cramming a week of keynotes, press conferences and over 1,000 exhibitor booths onto the screens of our laptops and from the comfort of our homes. .

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Where to invest to support an inclusive business recovery in Latin America

Impact Alpha

Small and growing businesses are significant actors in economic production, employment, and growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the OECD, The post Where to invest to support an inclusive business recovery in Latin America appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Four things Asia’s energy sector must do in 2021 to meet climate goals

Eco-Business

Renewables could spur the post-pandemic recovery in Asia. But as this year’s climate change conference approaches, the region's energy planners have a lot of catching up to do.

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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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Knocking landfill on the head: Recycling scheme celebrates three years

Envirotec Magazine

The National Hard Hat Recycling Scheme recently celebrated three years in operation. It was introduced in November 2017, with the intention of providing a user-friendly method for old hard hats to bypass traditional waste disposal routes, thereby ensuring end-of-life hats could go directly into reprocessing. The group behind the scheme, Yes Recycling , initially launched it as a scheme for the construction industry.

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What’s in store for the future of commuting?

GreenBiz

What’s in store for the future of commuting? Marian Jones. Tue, 01/12/2021 - 01:00. Despite being in a global pandemic, essential low-wage workers, healthcare providers, knowledge workers and many others have continued to work. However, since the start of lockdowns in March 2020, some 42 percent of the U.S. workforce has been from working home full-time.

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Jigar Shah: Deployment, deployment, deployment are keywords for sustainable infrastructure in 2021 (podcast)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Jan 13 – First came solar and wind energy. Then batteries and storage. Now, a raft of better, cheaper and more sustainable. The post Jigar Shah: Deployment, deployment, deployment are keywords for sustainable infrastructure in 2021 (podcast) appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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People were more scared of climate change than catching Covid in 2020

Eco-Business

In a year plagued by a deadly pandemic, people were more worried about climate change than contracting the virus that has killed almost 2 million people, a global study by public relations firm Edelman has found.

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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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Experiences of One 2018 Young Global Changer

Sense and Sustainability

Editor’s note: This article was first published on the Global Solutions Initiative blog. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. With a background in International Management, German Young Global Changer (YGC) Sebastian Woller currently serves in the Task-Force of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union Council. His life path to date has been interesting, if not a little unusual.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up.

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Black-led real estate firm East Chop Capital closes $4 million fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 12 — Columbus, Ohio-based East Chop Capital, founded by a pair of Black real estate investors and developers, has rallied Black. The post Black-led real estate firm East Chop Capital closes $4 million fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Food fortification ‘a powerful tool’ to improve health and power economies

Eco-Business

With nearly 400 million people in Asia suffering from undernourishment, fortifying staple foods such as rice with micronutrients can be a powerful and sustainable way to improve public health.

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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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The SEC Undermined a Powerful Weapon Against White-Collar Crime

Michael Connor

Now the lawyer who wrote the rules that gave Wall Street insiders a big financial incentive to report crimes to the SEC is suing the government for changing them. by Lydia DePillis , ProPublica. After agonizing about the decision, the top financial adviser had finally gone to the Securities and Exchange Commission with proof of wrongdoing at his firm.

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Q4 2020: Amazon, AT&T, McDonald's and Starbucks lead the way as clean energy procurement matures

GreenBiz

Q4 2020: Amazon, AT&T, McDonald's and Starbucks lead the way as clean energy procurement matures. Sarah Golden. Thu, 01/14/2021 - 04:11. After a strange year, corporate renewable procurement deals ended on a high note, with corporations inking some of the biggest, most complex transactions to date. The result was a blockbuster fourth quarter, with more than 7.3 gigawatts of contracts inked — more than any other single quarter since the start of the GreenBiz deal tracker. .

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Coral Vita secures $2 million to help corals adapt to climate change

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 14 – Healthy coral reefs foster biodiversity and provide food, income and protection for more than 500 million people. But pollution and. The post Coral Vita secures $2 million to help corals adapt to climate change appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Singapore shipping company guilty of illegally dumping waste oil in US waters

Eco-Business

Pacific International Lines faces a fine of US$3 million and imprisonment for the engineers responsible for an act known as bilge dumping. It is the second Singapore shipping company to be charged for the pollution offence in two months.

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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