3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

European countries have increased their reliance on energy imports from Russia for years. Before the invasion, Russia accounted for about a third of EU and UK natural gas imports, with Germany, Italy, Hungary and Poland most exposed to a cutoff of supplies. Energy and defense needs are galvanizing the region.

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Impakter

AUGUST 17, 2022

Much attention was focused lately on the idea that Ukraine could launch a victorious counter-offensive in the south intended to push Russian forces into retreat everywhere, including from the areas in the Donbas region that Russia presently controls: The Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia Provinces, or oblasts.

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3BL Media

MARCH 18, 2022

Christian is usually the one making calls and connecting with medical professionals for his role as 3M’s medical science liaison for the central Europe region. The message came from surgeons who were treating the wounded in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. They were asking for much-needed medical equipment and knew Christian worked for 3M.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2024

Every day, our medical facilities are subjected to targeted attacks by Russia,” said Viktor Liashko, Minister of Health of Ukraine. The initial 300 [electricity] storage systems received from Direct Relief will strengthen medical institutions in 20 regions of Ukraine. Each such attack endangers the lives of patients.

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3BL Media

MARCH 18, 2022

As the disturbing events in Ukraine continue to unfold, Gilead’s initial priority has been to safeguard our employees in the region. We are all alarmed by the far-reaching impact on innocent people in the region and like many of us watching from afar, we feel driven to do what we can to help.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 2, 2022

Russia’s attack on Ukraine represents a demand for a new world order that, over the long term, will support higher prices for fossil fuels, especially oil. Such an economy would probably be centered on Russia and China. Trade will be in the currency of the new Russia-China block.

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Just Capital

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia shocked the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine that has turned into a war for the country. For business, the crisis presents immediate challenges from protecting workers in the region, to supply chain disruptions, and spikes in energy, food, and commodity prices, among others. (Daro Sulakauri/Getty Images).

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 19, 2024

megatonnes; • Russia, 11.2 Global efforts to report emissions estimates consistently and transparently are strengthening, and studies suggest emissions are falling in some regions.” The biggest emitters were: • United States, 13.3 Mt; • Iran, 6.0 Mt; • Turkmenistan, 5.2 Mt; • Venezuela, 3.0 Mt; • China, 3.0 Mt; • Saudi Arabia, 2.4

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3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2022

As we strive to further grow our business in the EMEA region, we also continue our capacity increase and product development efforts at the mill to offer even more innovative and sustainable packaging solutions to customers.”. Moreover, the mill is 100% energy self-sufficient. We are headquartered in Memphis, Tenn.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Prioritizing the Saving Solutions in Iran’s Natural Gas Consumption Iran’s estimated proved natural gas reserves were 1,203 trillion cubic feet as of December 2021, second only to Russia. Currently, natural gas pipelines have been developed in most of the regions. The high energy intensity and the.

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Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Russia+ is Russia and its affiliates in CIS. The European Union is highest at 14%; Russia is lowest at 6.5%. [4] For this reason, my analysis groups together exports and imports into large regions where trade is most likely to take place. This is a major reason for its import requirements from outside the region.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

Further global warming will exacerbate freshwater shortages in much of the world, although increasing evaporation and higher average precipitation will benefit some regions. Freshwater scarcity is one of the key dimensions of water risk confronting businesses in every sector of the economy, as captured in the TSC Water Security Index.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

8 after Russia’s fatal missile attack on Ukraine. The latest barrage, which struck several regions across the country, marks a grim new chapter in a 22-month long war. 29, when Russia launched more than 120 missiles , killing 30 civilians, injuring 130, and leaving many more beneath rubble.

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Caux Round Table

JUNE 28, 2023

The ideal of civilizational states as replacing the nation state system introduced in Europe as a way of ending the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants is quite current in Russia and China.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“If Americans’ 163 million Fidos and Felixes comprised a separate country, their fluffy nation would rank fifth in global meat consumption,” reads a UCLA press release, “behind only Russia, Brazil, the United States and China.” Environmental and ethical concerns regarding pet food also extend to oceans.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

The French cosmetics manufacturer operates three "dry factories" — in Spain, Russia and Italy — where all the water used in its industrial processes, such as for cleaning and cooling, is purified and reused onsite. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste. And the company plans to introduce the system elsewhere.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

Set up with an initial Central and Eastern European focus, it has since expanded its region of operations four times, investing more than €180 billion (US$194.9 These include supporting clients with high-carbon assets as they transition to a low-carbon economy, human capital development and regional economic diversification.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From the 11th to 14th of October 2022, more than 60 managers from 50 national and regional networks joined a four-day hybrid workshop from Kigali, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Paris, and online. Since network managers are in a position that promotes SDGs and SDG achievement in the countries and regions, Prof.

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3BL Media

MARCH 10, 2022

Mobile team members who are from the region, is keeping an open line of communication with loved ones. And those with loved ones in Ukraine, Russia and nearby countries can’t possibly undercut the most traditional benefit of a connected world: the ability to talk with those you care about with less complexity, even in complex times. “We

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2022

The EU’s Fit for 55 target initially proposed in September 2020 by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen , raising the EU ambition from its prior 40% by 2030 goal, with the new level putting the region on track for 2050 climate neutrality. In addition to the 2050 goal, the law set the binding target for the 55% reduction by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

A couple of recent studies attempt to document the changing profile of this pollutant, and its prevalence in different regions of the world. concentrations were distributed in the regions of Eastern Asia (50.0 µg/m³), other regions in Oceania (12.6 2 WHO guidelines currently state that annual average concentrations of PM2.5

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 30, 2022

The Russia-Ukraine war has renewed a spotlight on the importance of energy security, but it has been decades since we’ve given much thought to energy security in Canada. And there’s still much more that hydropower can offer to our future energy supply in every Canadian region. How we define it has evolved.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 31, 2023

After this introductory material, I provide charts and some analysis of fossil fuel imports and exports by region, based on data from the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Theoretically, the total of regional imports should be very close to the total of regional exports.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Due to the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine, countries like Italy are now realizing how dependent they are on Russia for energy. Russia exports a significant amount of oil and natural gas to the European Union. A lot of it depends on the evolution of the war and relationship with Russia and tensions there.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

for 14 years, member of the Region of Waterloo Culinary Association (R.W.C.A.) Region of Waterloo Culinary Association) for 3 years, special Events chairman - R.W.C.A. 1998 – 2000 and National Culinary Ambassador to Russia for 5 years. Further, Paul was a member of the National Canadian Federation of Chefs and Cooks (C.F.C.C.)

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 23, 2022

Our efforts to support our people in Ukraine and get them to safety began weeks before Russian troops arrived in the country, as did our response to cyberattacks in the region through our Talos team. This belief helped guide our decision to stop all business operations, including sales and services, in Russia and Belarus.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In 2022, we kicked-off an on-field initiative, implemented in a selection of Harmony cooperatives in various regions of France, with the aim to modernize our biscuit wheat portfolio. At the end of 2022, approximately 43% of eggs supplied globally were cage-free, excluding Russia and Ukraine volume.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2023

By Gulsanna Mamediieva Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact with the state in the digital era: paperless, cashless, and without bureaucracy.

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With fuel efficiency standards already covering over 85% of the global car market, Australia and Russia remain the only two developed nations not to have these standards. Aussie drivers who have long commutes from our suburbs and regions are hurt the most by high and rising petrol bills.

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Gail Tverberg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Russia+ is the Commonwealth of Independent States. It includes Russia and the countries to the south of Russia that were included in the former Soviet Union. Figure 4 compares inter-regional trade for coal and natural gas. Russia+ is the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 1, 2019

The initiative’s outputs include Regional Decarbonization Pathways Reports and a White Paper, which were discussed at the first Pathways Project Webinar on July 24, 2019. The Regional Decarbonization Pathways Reports portray what an energy transition might look like in different US regions and across jurisdictional levels.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

While Russia, China and India did not sign up to the pledge, despite the latter two being the top methane emitters, 50 signatories have unveiled detailed strategies to cut methane emissions, with 95 per cent of countries including methane in their NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The first prosecutions have been brought in relation to a spill in Russia’s Arctic region in May, which involved the release of over 20,000 tonnes of diesel into rivers and subsoil near the Siberian city of Norilisk. Akhmetchin had been mayor of the region since September 2017, but resigned in July.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This is partly due to attempts to reduce energy use and increase renewables in the wake of the gas shortage created by sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Building on a global campaign for such an agreement, the small island nations of Tuvalu and Vanuatu have called for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is leading to a rapid reappraisal of ESG risks by asset owners, including enhanced scrutiny of human rights and governance risks across portfolios, and a reaffirmed commitment to net zero targets. . Scope downgraded Russia’s credit rating to CCC on 4 March, reflecting increasingly likelihood of default. .

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 5, 2023

The United States, the EU, and Japan have been able to get better rewards for the complex goods that they produce (such as banking services, high-tech medicine, and high-tech agricultural products) compared to Russia and the oil exporting countries of the Middle East. Russia and the Arab World, with all their energy supplies, come out behind.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

But as we are putting the immediate dependency on Russia behind us, we must completely phase out gas and ramp up renewables,” explains William Gillett, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director. “We “We understand this is a necessary compromise as an emergency measure to make sure we keep the lights on, people warm and industries running.

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