B the Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

How to Ensure Your Company’s Sustainability Claims Are Accurate and Meaningful for the Planet By Noémi Nemes, Maya Fischhoff, and Abby Litchfield People don’t like bad news. That means avoiding “greenwashing,” or false communications about environmental action. But the truth is, we’re in danger here on Planet Earth.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Who's news. Stewart also launched and ran research and development at BSR.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Climate neutrality is the concept of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by balancing the emissions human sources release into the Earth’s atmosphere with the amount the planet naturally absorbs in emission “sinks,” like forests and oceans, via a process called sequestration. Its goal is to be climate neutral—not just carbon neutral—by 2050.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: METALLICA, CHARLIE PUTH, JONAS BROTHERS, MÅNESKIN, MARIAH CAREY, MICKEY GUYTON AND ROSALÍA SET TO PERFORM AT GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK. Tickets to the festivals are free and can be earned by downloading the Global Citizen app or visiting www.globalcitizen.org to take action on the campaign's issues.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis. C global leaders must find a way out of this sticky situation.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. That’s why I hope that after COVID-19 we will be more human and environmental-driven than money-driven. If our environmental is suffering, we will suffer at some point. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).

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Just Capital

JANUARY 12, 2024

The basic idea is that a private investment account seeded with up to $1,000 from the government is created every time a kid is born in the U.S. News & Global Report , Americans feel that good, honest, solutions-oriented leaders are in short supply, and 86% are “largely disappointed” by leaders in society. The chief of the U.S.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

DESCRIPTION: NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: [link]. Businesses, government, civic leaders, educators, school administers, teachers and parents play a critical role in helping to develop and nurture the next generation of skilled trade workers.

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3BL Media

APRIL 14, 2022

SUMMARY: Volunteers are now taking part in Work for Humankind, a bold initiative in partnership with Lenovo, Island Conservation, and the Robinson Crusoe community that allows them to work their own jobs remotely from one of the world’s most far-flung offices. France: Cynthia Mayer, a product manager and communications specialist.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Race to Zero’s new criteria was just one reminder of the need for scrutiny and ambition. The report also noted that a fifth of governments’ net zero targets “meet minimum procedural standards” set by Race to Zero, the UN-backed campaign which this week toughened its criteria.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The latter commitment is one touted by members of The Climate Pledge, orchestrated by Amazon and Global Optimism, although PepsiCo isn’t a member of that campaign as of this writing. The extension will see $6 million more invested through 2026, initially in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Guatemala. Photo courtesy of PepsiCo.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

And I’m not even talking about the onrush of net-zero commitments by companies, government and others, although they seem to be happening at an almost-daily clip — so much so that they are no longer news. I’m not necessarily talking about any breakthroughs in the U.N. I’m talking about markets, plain and simple. Carrots and sticks.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

Gordon Tveito-Duncan, Head of ESG Technology at GaiaLens, outlines the challenges for asset owners and managers in assessing their exposures and options. To divest or not to divest? This work demands forensic, real-time data collection, analysis and scoring against specific ESG criteria. We have seen some defence stocks rallying since late February.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

The reason we gather remains to celebrate conservation and ecological stewardship efforts — whether the completion of a nature restoration project, the success of a new pollinator meadow, adoption of a new corporate biodiversity ambition or interesting and uplifting engagements with communities around environmental education or STEM.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The recently signed Inflation Reduction Act injected $369 billion into climate solutions and environmental justice, a major milestone on America’s path to a 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. What Is Environmental Justice? A Short History of Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice News and Challenges.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The matter reached fever pitch this month when a UK House of Lords Committee urged the government to tackle misinformation about EVs to correct the industry’s flatlining growth. Automative industry’s links to oil and gas lobbying come under scrutiny, as misleading reports about EVs risk slowing down the low-carbon transition.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So now the question is, what is the role each of us can play in talking about the climate with our friends, and help bring more people into this movement? How can we debunk the myths and uplift the facts? How do we balance urgency with optimism? John Cook | Monash University Climate Change Communication Research Hub | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (Alex Wong/Getty Images) It’s interesting to take a just lens to the recent spate of CEO pay cuts at Alphabet , Apple , Goldman Sachs , Intel , and JPMorgan Chase. First, some context. In 1965, the ratio of CEO pay to the average worker was around 20:1. Typically, CEO pay is calibrated to the success of the business.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

Vega; president, North America; vice president, Government Affairs and Advocacy, #9. Louis is a member of Dow's President's Inclusion Council, sponsors and leads Dow's Social Justice Council, and serves as a member of the Company's Operations Team. DESCRIPTION: MIDLAND, Mich.,

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Starting now, any new appliance in a home should be electric. Each new gas car could be on the road for a decade or more. A new gas furnace creates 15-20 years of carbon emissions. News stories about the utility industry are more common as extreme weather events affect peoples’ lives.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis. The result: a power-packed list of companies whose products and services bring bold new ideas to the sustainability front – and raise hopes that we can win the climate war.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 23, 2022

Individuals and organizations working for social justice must mitigate technology’s grave harms, but also harness technology to strengthen their work. Governments and corporations abuse digital technology to surveil human rights defenders in Mexico , political dissidents in Argentina , and environmental activists in Brazil.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood. Zack Angelini, 29.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

From China’s stand to Walmart’s wish list: A Climate Week news cheat sheet. As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. .

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

All attending the roundtable dinner were more than a decade experienced in working to lead global companies in understanding and responding to the challenges created by human-caused climate and environmental breakdown. This plaque commemorates all those who suffered enslavement.”. The answer from every diner was a longer version of “no.” .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Over 750 companies from across the world are urging governments to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030 for developed countries and by 2040 for other countries. As we approach the critical final stages of COP26, the We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to take bold decisions to keep the 1.5°C

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s also a strong AI component at work , with Gawdat both signaling the social dangers of unregulated AI, but also seeing AI as a way to advance individual happiness. JUST IN THE NEWS JUST Capital publishes our latest review of quarterly stakeholder performance. It may seem like an odd question in times like these.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021. Good news stories do not have the sensationalistic allure of dramatic prophecies of doom, but once you get past the dire headlines, there is a litany of overlooked achievements that tangibly illustrate progress.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Governments around the world have condemned Russia and companies from automakers to tech firms are leaving the country in droves. International sports organizations and governing bodies are excluding Russia to prevent Putin from using athletics as an instrument of power that legitimizes his regime.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 30, 2022

Over the past two decades, social media has moved from a space of aspiration for people who study social change, to a space of profound anxiety. If we believe news headlines, social media is responsible for many of the major scourges of modern life. In reality, social media is complicated. By Ethan Zuckerman.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

20, in addition to domestic terrorism activities aimed at state and local governments and other institutions. It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. Good governance in donation practices. institutions.

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