Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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Waste

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Manufacturing

ESG Today

JULY 31, 2022

Moody’s Expands ESG Credit Impact Scores to Cover Healthcare, Agriculture, Transport & Logistics Companies. ESG Investing. Amundi Expands “ESG Improvers” Investment Range with New Emerging Markets Fund. Schroders Launches Natural Capital Impact Investment Manager with Conservation International.

Chief Sustainability Officer

3BL Media

MAY 6, 2022

That’s why Cisco is focused on reducing emissions by optimizing resource efficiency through our designs, manufacturing and logistics, and reuse and recycling, as well as using our technology to help customers do the same. The remaining 45 percent relates to manufacturing and using products. Looking Forward.

Net Zero

Impact Alpha

MAY 8, 2024

The Agtech startup iProcure launched a decade ago to untangle supply-chain logistics for Africa’s hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers. Now the company. The post Kenya’s iProcure, used by a million farmers, is the latest African funding crunch casualty appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Supply Chains

3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Manufacturing Plant Efficiencies - Initiated investments in several of the Company’s European operations to expand state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and invest in newer technologies such as electric ovens to reduce natural gas use. Transition to Bioenergy - Substituted cleaner energy at some of the Company’s operations.

Net Zero

3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

We have a goal that 80% of Cisco component, manufacturing, and logistics suppliers by spend have a public, absolute GHG emissions reduction target by FY25. We aim to transform our business to extend the useful life of our products and provide ongoing services. Visit our ESG Reporting Hub for more details on our environmental initiatives. *

Regenerative

Cisco CSR

APRIL 28, 2022

That’s why Cisco is focused on reducing emissions by optimizing resource efficiency through our designs, manufacturing and logistics, and reuse and recycling, as well as using our technology to help customers do the same. The remaining 45 percent relates to manufacturing and using products. Looking Forward .

Net Zero

Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 29, 2025

I’ve found that the reasons people disengaged from services are often more social than logistical. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. They’re about what systems don’t see.

Impact Investing

James Militzer

JUNE 14, 2022

That’s the approach Beyond Capital Ventures took with the first investment in our new fund, which also highlighted the ways a lead investor can influence a company’s development. The investee, Viebeg Medical , is a fast-growth, AI-driven medical equipment and logistics player based in Rwanda, founded by Tobias Reiter and Alex Musyoka.

Development

James Militzer

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, Promethean and S4S are dealing with more operational complexity, as both companies are now managing last-mile logistics and schedules. However, this broader focus does bring some challenges. But the upside is that they are able to build long-term relationships with farmers, based on the value they are creating.

Development

James Militzer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These businesses have struggled with pandemic-driven logistics and supply chain issues, large fluctuations in supply and demand, and policy shifts — for example, export bans on certain crops — that have upended their business models.

Supply Chains

3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

By leveraging expertise and backing from leaders in fuels, soybean crushing, logistics, and crop sciences, CCI will be positioned to deliver on its full potential via a supply chain that understands its crop’s production, growth, processing, and delivery needs from the ground up.

Supply Chains

James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To scale volume without sacrificing quality, social enterprises need to improve a variety of operations, including customer delivery, accounting, financial planning, logistics and more. . #4: Improving operations to successfully deliver on bigger contracts.

Corporate Social Responsibility

James Militzer

AUGUST 6, 2024

Leveraging their expertise in logistics and project management, corporations can facilitate the implementation of water initiatives with greater efficiency. Additionally, larger businesses possess the capacity to extend the reach of water NGOs’ solutions and related awareness campaigns through their expansive commercial and media networks.

Waste

James Militzer

MAY 6, 2024

However, challenges like high upfront costs, lack of financing, transportation logistics and poor after-sales service hinder their adoption among vulnerable consumers. Beyond subsidies, implementers themselves can seek financing through nonprofit donors, impact investments, crowdfunding or bank loans.

Climate Change

ESG Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This week in ESG news: HSBC ends financing of new oil & gas projects; EU agrees to a carbon tax on imports; Australia to introduce mandatory climate reporting for companies; Dow Jones Sustainability annual index changes released; Barclays sets $1 trillion sustainable finance goal; Annual CDP environmental scores released; Biden invests $3.7

Chief Sustainability Officer

James Militzer

MAY 28, 2024

Impact investing and impact measurement are booming. Despite recent challenges, impact investors manage more than $1.1 Meanwhile, the impact measurement and management of ESG, sustainability and impact investing is growing rapidly, projected to expand from a $7.6 billion industry in 2020 to $31.2

Impact Investing

Just Capital

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What is viewed as “ESG investing” is sometimes confused with impact investing or socially responsible investing (SRI), which aim to create social or environmental impact alongside financial returns and may purposely sacrifice market-rate returns to achieve those goals.

Value Creation

ESG Today

MARCH 25, 2025

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced that it has raised 110 million (USD$119 million) for the Fidelity Real Estate Logistics Impact Climate Solutions (LOGICs) fund, dedicated to energy transition in the real estate sector, adding to the 200 million raised during its first close in March 2024.

Logistics

James Militzer

JUNE 16, 2025

In 2024, Ghanaian tech startups raised over $127 million in venture capital across 31 deals involving equity, debt and grants — a remarkable 95% increase in deal volume compared to 2023 — making the country one of Africa’s top five destinations for startup investment. We have already seen what this looks like in practice.

Development