3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We focus where we believe we can make the greatest difference and help tackle the most important issues to help foster security of supply, care for the environment, and support the people and communities that grow the key ingredients for our well-loved snacks. 2 100% Palm oil sourced from suppliers aligned to Palm Oil Action Plan (POAP).

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2024

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Building broad buy-in within institutions. Combining being responsive with being strategic, rather than seeing these approaches as opposing polarities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Plant-based and cultivated seafood companies raised $80 million in 2020, according to the nonprofit Good Food Institute (GFI), which counts 800 companies involved in the space. Nestlé's Garden Gourmet veggie burgers are well established in supermarkets, as are its vegetable-based sausages, chicken nuggets and lunch meats.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. While undoubtedly beneficial in theory, the pursuit of stakeholder capitalism comes with a number of practical challenges.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Ashiagbor said AFAC wanted to ensure that there was an African voice in the international discussions about ESG and sustainability standards. of global investors assets would be enough to bridge the annual US$108 billion infrastructure gap in the continent.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Cooperatives, including profitable ones, find it extremely difficult to build up accrued reserves, leaving their balance sheets perpetually weak and their businesses dangerously undercapitalized. The International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates that basic financial services reach only 10 percent of rural communities.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Counts has just come out with a new edition of “Small Loans, Big Dreams , offering reflections on the ongoing evolution of Grameen Bank and the broader microfinance sector, and responding to critics who have questioned the value of the Grameen model and the industry’s role in international development.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2024

It’s to make sure that we’re holding hands with other companies that are trying to do that as well.” NotCo’s secret weapon has been an artificial intelligence dubbed Giuseppe , after Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an Italian artist known for paintings of human faces using fruits and vegetables. Similar bans exist in Italy and several U.S.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Internally, our employees, we have 16,000 employees around the world, that are passionate about water issues, and so, we're able to engage them not only in our sustainability initiatives but interfacing with customers, being advocates for the industry as a whole and also participating in our community impact programming and giving back.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2024

It’s to make sure that we’re holding hands with other companies that are trying to do that as well.” NotCo’s secret weapon has been an artificial intelligence dubbed Giuseppe , after Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an Italian artist known for paintings of human faces using fruits and vegetables. Similar bans exist in Italy and several U.S.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Targeting transition The consultation also asked whether the current SFDR framework effectively captures transition asset investments, as well as proposing a category for products with a “transition focus”. It also identified two possible strategies for transitioning to a more precise product categorisation system.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The challenge of understanding and managing one’s financed greenhouse gas emissions is an ongoing one for all financial institutions, but getting to grips with risks, impacts and dependencies on nature is recognised as a task of a different magnitude. Finding investible projects can be a challenge.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It builds on a peer-reviewed and statistically audited methodology, and includes country profiles for the EU, its member states and European partner countries, including for the first time this year EU candidate countries (Albania, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Corporates and investors across Asia Pacific are well aware of the growing need to push beyond the current “nascent stage” of understanding the nature risks in their businesses and portfolios. The climate data challenge is one of definition as well as collection.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

They sparked uncomfortable conversations about diversity and discrimination, some pledging many millions of dollars to address lingering inequities internally and in society at large. LinkedIn | Company profile. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. Company profile.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

This comparison was how the market determined whether a company was performing well environmentally or socially. In practice, companies and financial institutions can use the EU taxonomy to assess the sustainability of their activities and investments. Over time, the criteria for inclusion also expanded.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 2021, Edison International published Mind the Gap with dozens of recommendations for policies to achieve 2030 emissions targets, based on the foundational Pathway 2045 analysis. In particular, changes in the profile and magnitude of system demand will drive an increased requirement for firm generation capacity.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 25, 2022

If we are to properly build infrastructure designed to withstand the challenges of the 21st century and beyond, we need an equally multidimensional framework for designing, funding, and governing it. PIT can only truly flourish if the next generation of civic changemakers is supported in their pursuit of building a better world.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 27, 2023

International Data Corporation forecasts that by 2025 the global datasphere will be 163 zettabytes , up from 16.1 International Data Corporation forecasts that by 2025 the global datasphere will be 163 zettabytes , up from 16.1 With that quantity of data being generated and collected, data privacy is increasingly important.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

The losses and damages from climate change in developing countries are also not comprehensively addressed by current financial, governance and institutional arrangements. To accelerate adaptation, the IPCC says building capacity and removing some barriers to accessing finance is “fundamental”. degree warming target.

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Just Capital

MARCH 2, 2023

Home Depot’s leadership also kick-starts a new feature for this newsletter, in which each week we shine the spotlight on top company performers across the multitude of issues and industries we cover, as well as other lists relevant to our mission. The first, the top five retail leaders from our 2023 Rankings, is below.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Swami Venkataraman, Associate Managing Director at Moody’s Investors Service, said the creation of a 400-strong global pipeline of projects that are “ credible, well-defined and structured to attract private investment ” would do much to accelerate the flow of adaptation finance to EMDEs. . Renewables transition.

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3BL Media

MARCH 16, 2022

It acknowledges excellence in engaging trading partners in sustainability initiatives and honors best-in-class examples of driving internal engagement to roll out global sustainable procurement programs. Read the full profiles of the expert jury members and details on the key attributes of these winning programs here. About EcoVadis.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The International Energy Agency ( IEA ) projects a required annual capital spending on clean energy in emerging and developing economies (excluding China) to expand by more than seven times, from under US$150 billion in 2020 to over US$1 trillion by 2030. Adapt to climate realities. The cost of achieving net zero alone by 2050 is huge.

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James Militzer

AUGUST 3, 2023

This accounts for its alignment with UN goals like universal health coverage, broader digital transformation, private sector engagement and the use of emerging technologies such as AI, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion — including an indicator to help countries address the widening gender digital divide. billion people globally.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

“We’re still putting the building blocks in place, but they look remarkably different from two or three years ago. Meanwhile, the UK pursued its climate-first approach, rolling out disclosure rules for financial institutions and corporates in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2022

The global hydrogen industry is on the brink of a sustained take-off, but there are risks for investors as well as opportunities. Green hydrogen is also growing internationally, with Scottish Power announcing plans to build a £150 million green hydrogen plant in Felixstowe, on the East coast of England.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 2, 2024

It has been almost eight years since Uber lost a high-profile labour rights case at a UK employment court which declared the firm could no longer describe drivers as self-employed. Fernandez says: “Institutional investors have a responsibility to respect human rights as formalised by the UN and OECD in 2011.

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James Militzer

MARCH 16, 2022

Even a well-designed product may miss the mark if the loan officer expects a woman client to take two hours to show up at the branch, leaving behind business and household responsibilities. These include products and services for their own personal use and needs (e.g.,

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Many of the world’s largest emitters have yet to align their policy action with their actual emission profiles and consider especially the need for shifts toward sustainable diets and consumption, and to address food loss and waste. Why tracking action on food and land use?

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It’s a big challenge for institutional investors to select frameworks and benchmarks for their climate strategies, particularly as we think of target-setting methodology, as well as capturing the data needed to measure progress. We build tools to better equip the investment team to think about risks and opportunities.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In this feature, we examine the case for large asset owners and institutional investors exploring the investment opportunities that sustainable aquaculture presents. The way in which companies use fish feed and care for animals largely determines their ESG risk profile, according to Mosnier. “In

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2023

We are already preparing for this today, and have laid down our vision for future wireless possibilities in our 6G white paper , as well as in other cross-sectoral initiatives such as Hexa-X. Moreover, technology must be anchored in society to be socially sustainable, meaning that the use of resources is well motivated and explained.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Taxonomy reporting is not easy, especially in private markets, but will increasingly be expected by European investors – who will be obliged to report under it themselves – so firms would do well to prepare for that. The CS3D is also significant and could also affect the fund itself, but is still under discussion by the EU institutions.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

So whilst the green finance revolution is well and truly underway, it risks leaving out emerging markets, including some of the world’s most vulnerable nations to climate change. After renewable energy, transport, followed by green buildings, waste, water, biodiversity conservation, and adaptation, comprise other areas for proceeds.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The latest edition of the annual Ecological Threat Report (ETR) – produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)* – pinpoints trouble hotspots and profiles sustainability challenges in 228 countries and territories worldwide. The world’s 40 least peaceful countries will increase their population by 1.3 Food stress.

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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 2015 and at US$5.2

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