Just Capital

JULY 7, 2023

corporations reference this) or a rise in legal challenges to DEI, companies will just have to work harder and smarter to achieve their goals. JUST AI Wired looks back at the deep learning boom of the 2010s and finds that many fewer jobs were eliminated by AI than expected. CBS News has the story. We will keep tracking it.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You used to have to hammer on people just to get them to listen to you about environmental issues,” he told us. One of the places to start is by having water authorities look beyond capital costs and plan for lifecycle costs. “A A more sustainable project doesn’t mean more costly,” Schlaman said.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. I think of these numbers as a barometer,” said lead author Eric Gimon at Energy Innovation. The costs of renewables just keep decreasing.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Just weeks earlier, approximately 19,000 people, including numerous British tourists, had to be evacuated when wildfires tore across the Greek islands of Rhodes and Corfu. The sheer volume of people overwhelms the island,” wrote Greek City News at the time.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MAY 27, 2022

Want this news summary in your inbox every Friday? this author’s vision includes people acting on the insights derived from complete digitization and AI that can help provide more context to humans on the floor — or up in their offices away from the plant. The Hacker News ). Get the newsletter. However, in Industry 5.0

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. I think of these numbers as a barometer,” said lead author Eric Gimon at Energy Innovation. The costs of renewables just keep decreasing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2022

The good news is - actionable roadmaps are now available to move well-being from efforts to effect. According to Lisa MacVicar, principal author of the white paper and a senior manager of the Real Estate Advisory at Deloitte Canada, commitment from top leadership is critical to creating an authentic culture of well-being.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2023

Gradually filling up again with people after the long pandemic hiatus, these towers are not just workplaces, but complicated architectural machines. “If You just have so many more opportunities to optimize.” However, stories like Ramadori’s suggest that the AI narrative isn’t all dystopian news. That’s a huge risk too.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

Beyond the host country, the summit was good news for the region, marking as it does the first gathering of Amazon nations in 14 years, and a welcome resumption of regional policymaking on their shared forestry resources. It was obviously good news for the world, which depends on the Amazon to meet its climate goals.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode, we’re breaking down why a truly sustainable future needs to be not only climate secure, but equitable and just for all. SOPHIA LI: We have entered a new climate cadence. DW NEWS CLIP: A typhoon has slammed into the eastern Philippines as authorities struggle to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oil and gas producers and consumers attracted just over $1 trillion in public support in 2022, with the remaining $250 billion going to fossil-fuel-fired power. At the same time, Bloomberg LP is providing the global financial community with data-driven insights, news, and analysis on climate-related issues.

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Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These are big numbers that strike at the heart of value creation,” the authors note. The JUST Team will be making the rounds – we hope to see you there! Ethan Rouen, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, to JUST Capital on the case for investing in workers. Get tickets here.

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Stacey Higginbotham

APRIL 8, 2022

They were Singapore-based UnaBiz, Actility, a French LoRaWAN provider; OTEIS France, and Greybull Capital, an English venture capital company. Ford Authority ). The post IoT news of the week for April 8, 2022 appeared first on Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis. Enterprise IoT Insights ).

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3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2022

During the meeting, SEAC members emphasized the importance of sharing best practices and learnings, as well as the role that private markets investors can and should play in advancing sustainability by mobilizing capital and bringing relevant expertise to investments. What are you most hopeful for?

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

Twenty years ago, Corporate Knights launched its quest for a more humane form of capitalism, placing people and planet ahead of profits, with the Best 50 Corporate Citizens sitting at the head of the roundtable to make business a force for good. 27 33 British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Power Generation $160,379.00 NZAM, NZBA.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 26, 2022

For many of us, it's one of those moments in life where we know exactly where we were when the news broke. The apartments and bungalows of the former Women’s Village have proved just as attractive to students. I myself followed the developments on television with incredulous horror. Urban planning. Around 221.5

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2024

Regular readers of the newspaper were likely already familiar with the development thanks to news articles that praised Morris Cafritz’s “vision and courage” and a constant stream of advertisements bringing his over 3,000 new units to market. One takeaway: Traditional practices of grantmaking are insufficient. As historian N.D.B.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Morgan Stanley IM, GMPF, Impax AM, Orchard Street IM and Nuveen. . Protecting biodiversity is therefore not just a means of saving nature, it is also one of the largest investment opportunities of our times.” .

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

She further implied that the Financial Conduct Authority had missed a trick in its plans to make UK listings more attractive by not including executive pay among a raft of measures already causing concern among asset owners due to their potential to erode shareholder voting rights. At least my pension might be safe for this coming year.”

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 27, 2023

During climate week in New York City just a few weeks ago, G&A Institute, along with Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business hosted the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for the launch event of the latest edition of the “Carrots and Sticks” research. While the U.S. Climate change is a salient example.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2023

But here's the good news: if we make efforts to adhere to these boundaries, we can maintain the stability and resilience of our planet's life-support systems. local communities, indigenous people and local authorities). Sounds scary, right? For the third step, targets are quantified and set.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 19, 2022

moved in to the new suburbs, rapidly replacing farms that dated back to Dutch settlement in the 1600s. That’s the good news we try to share. That was the Hempstead Plains.). Ah, to save the planet while still making progress – that’s the ambitious goal of so many now.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including GRI, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, CDP, Diginex, Esgaia and Normative. . engagement tracking, has received funding from Nordic venture capital firm Wellstreet’s US$40 million Fintech Fund 1. Investors can use?Esgaia’s

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

Broadcasting and streaming from Accra and New York City on ABC, ABC News Live, FX, Hulu, iHeartRadio, TimesLIVE, Twitter, YouTube and more. ABC News Live’s broadcast will air on Saturday, September 24, and a primetime special, Global Citizen Festival: Take Action NOW, will air on ABC on Sunday, September 25 at 7:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm CT.

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Martin Brown

MAY 3, 2021

Regen Notes , a fortnightly newsletter is released through substack, as an update of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by me, Martin Brown. Also noted in respect of new books is “Design Studio Vol. These newsletters will be also shared here for Patreon subscribers.

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ESG Today

MARCH 22, 2023

Instead, they could shift their focus to new value opportunities—working with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders to introduce new technologies and solutions that will lead to new products, services, and businesses. Such a shift in focus may require changes to capital allocation, operations, and performance management.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Just like us, female entrepreneurs in developing countries have ideas and drive. billion adults still lack access to formal financial services that can open the door to greater savings, access to capital, higher incomes and better lives. Most importantly, she lacks decision-making authority in household finances.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

Just as the US economy was overexposed to mortgage risk in 2008, so too is the economy to climate risk today, he warned. The good news is that a growing number of insurance firms are making public commitments to no longer cover new upstream oil and gas projects, including Munich Re , Swiss Re and SCOR.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

"The financer is basically betting that that set of controls and that technology is the same or similar across the portfolio, so they’re able to quantify and manage technology risk," said Isaac Maze-Rothstein, microgrid analyst at Wood Mackenzie and author of the report, in a phone conversation. the more common they will become. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

These subsidies , tax breaks and other measures not only skew the economics of the low-carbon transition by making fossil fuels seem more competitive, but they also give investors a false impression of the profit profile of existing carbon-intensive investments, resulting in the misallocation of capital. trillion in 2020 or about 6.8%

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In some good news, building on commitments made by Scotland and Wallonia (Belgium) and a group of philanthropies during COP26, Denmark announced in September 2022 a pledge of 100 million Danish Krone (approximately US$13 million) for loss and damage. billion to support a just transition to a low-emissions, climate-resilient economy.

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Just Capital

JULY 21, 2023

When it comes to wealth, the bottom 50% of Americans may hold just 3.3% For more on why companies should be listening to the people’s priorities, I highly recommend this new Harvard Business Review article by our board member Michael Weinstein and advisors Daniel J. of the nation’s total, but that’s up from 0.4% in mid-2011.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The road she had traversed just days before through Kelowna was now consumed by raging flames. Recent events have impacted my kin personally in Maui and Northwest Territories,” says the 25-year-old community organizer from Six Nations of the Grand River, who works as the just-transition lead at Sacred Earth Solar. “It

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Yet, grocer profits offer a murky field of view into the complexity of food prices, particularly the challenge of parsing out the origin of profit margins at these more-than-just-food mammoths. Jon Steinman is the author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants. Maybe the response should be too.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Authorities raided the offices of several ESG funds (e.g. The good news is that every recession eventually creates new opportunities, so continue reading about 2023 sustainability trends. 2022 Sustainability Summary. In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Do you want to know more?

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 16, 2022

In my eyes, the social sector had a fantastic opportunity to not just catch up to the for-profit uses of tech that were changing industries and disrupting the world, but to instead race ahead with its own vision of success. To be clear, I am a huge fan of the work of all the authors involved and support the conclusions of both articles.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On balance, this presents more good news than bad, but this development will prove highly disruptive as even fewer young people will finance the pensions of the retired. A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time. Innovation marches forward. Science is on the comeback trail.

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