3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

Teck’s approach to responsible mining is underpinned by a long-term sustainability strategy, which sets out goals in the areas of Health and Safety, Climate Change, Responsible Production, Our People, Water, Tailings Management, Communities and Indigenous Peoples, and Biodiversity and Reclamation. SOURCE: 3BL Alerts.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. They called it the Blue New Deal. Yes, provisions in the Green New Deal address fisheries and fishing communities, but that’s only a drop in the ocean, say blue-economy experts. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Its focus: an ocean-based blue economy.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, Invesco, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Janus Henderson and Mirova. . HSBC AM also announced it will be phasing out coal-fired power and thermal coal mining from its listed holdings.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Co-op utilities have by many measures lagged on clean energy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Actis, DWS, AXA IM Alts, iCapital, and NN IP. . Through the strategy, the firm will further actively engage with the companies most affected by the net zero transition.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Newly added to the official agenda, discussions on a loss & damage facilitated at COP27 led to breakthroughs, alongside related pledges of more than US$300 million by several European countries [1], including the establishment of a 24-country transitional committee to provide recommendations for operational modalities by COP28.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. Energy Harbor’s announced closing of the Sammis plant means solar projects in Ohio’s regulatory pipeline already exceed the coal power that will remain after 2028. By Kathiann M. The shift also is important for addressing climate change. Last year the figure was more than 90 million MWh.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

So long, soy – The grindingly slow pace of change on sustainability at the corporate level has been highlighted by new reports which also emphasised the importance of supply chain scrutiny in accurately understanding risks and impacts on the environment.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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. DW NEWS CLIP: A typhoon has slammed into the eastern Philippines as authorities struggle to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people. Transcript.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

In the past few years, energy economics have flipped to the point where renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. Tellingly, the 2023 list is dominated by renewable-energy players high in sustainable revenue. In fact, Innergex is the only pure-play renewable-energy company on the Best 50 (giving it 100% sustainable revenue).

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. It solidifies the necessity of my work in clean energy and climate justice. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. Covering both public and private companies, most of them recent start-ups, the Future 50 is a daring snapshot of the energy transition.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

One week later, the Global Carbon Project shared more discouraging news: that despite global pledges to reduce emissions, greenhouse gases from fossil fuels hit a record high again in 2023. As the climate crisis exacts a punishing toll around the globe, we’re also getting better at solving problems.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

This week in ESG news: Biden announces $6 billion in new climate project investments; nearly all investors say corporate sustainability reporting contains unsupported claims, PwC finds; BlackRock raises $1 billion for energy transition infrastructure fund; Bain survey finds gap between consumer willingness to pay for sustainable products and premiums (..)

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Here are the signals of change towards… A just transition from fossil fuels to clean solutions As we finalize this newsletter, the European Commission is set to propose a 2040 climate target. India’s Adani Group is constructing the world’s largest renewable energy park located in the Rann of Kutch.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Our objective was to identify outstanding Canadian entrepreneurs and companies that are gaining significant traction in the fight against carbon – with exciting new solutions that most of the world hasn’t discovered yet. Instead, they see our net-zero targets slipping away and they feel betrayed. In Squamish, B.C.,

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

– The world’s oceans are changing from blue to green due to climate change, according to a new report from Nature, with researchers deeply concerned that the changing pigmentation of our oceans suggests “we are affecting the ecosystem in a way that we haven’t seen before”. Watchman lived a life many can only dream of.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

We need to put people back to work in creating the clean energy future. Clean energy can be our bridge.". Navajo Power was co-founded by Isaac and his old friend Dan Rosen, a college dropout from New Jersey. The wealth of energy resources on Navajo land invited exploitation throughout the 20th century.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On the wooded hill above the Stan Terg lead and zinc mine in Kosovo, there is an old concrete diving platform looming over what was once an open-air swimming pool. I am with Peter*, an Albanian mine worker who used to come up here with his friends before the war began in 1998. And yet, we can’t live our modern lives without mining.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

The human cost of minerals is threatening the renewable energy transition, says Jessie Cato, Natural Resources Programme Manager at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. More frequently, warnings go unheeded, resulting in severe damage to the lives of mining employees and local communities before eventually being exposed.

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Gail Tverberg

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Growing economies require a growing supply of energy to keep up with a growing population. At some point, the energy supply and other resource needs cannot grow rapidly enough to keep up with population growth. In this post, I show evidence that the economy is reaching energy limits. Conflict of all kinds becomes more likely.

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ESG Today

JULY 17, 2022

This week in ESG news: BlackRock says net zero transition not yet priced into markets; Germany to transition to 80% renewable energy by 2030; Bloomberg survey finds financials still at early stages on managing climate risk; DOE allocates over $2.6 Billion in Clean Tech Decarbonization Projects. Energy Transition.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . Action this decade must drive sustainable economic growth, build resilience and solidarity, and create new jobs as part of a just transition. . READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE > NEWS: . The Pact and recent pledges keep 1.5°C

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

A controversial Illinois coal plant that has locked municipalities across the Midwest into financially crushing contracts could be forced to close within a decade under proposed state clean energy legislation. Relying on the market is a dangerous gamble,” Harre said. The contracts are difficult to break,” said J.C.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021.

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