Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Held across England and Wales, the world-first initiative enabled monetary rewards and charity donations to be claimed through the Bower app, in which customers simply set up their account and add their regular recycling bins and bank account. Up to £4,000 worth of rewards were obtained during the nine week long trial.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, Scheer said “one main exception” was made with the introduction of an entirely new area on government climate action-related spending disclosure and climate budget tagging under this renamed ‘climate finance’ pillar. “This was an area missing from the previous framework and required in-depth research to develop an appropriate methodology, (..)

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What we’ve learned from 10 years working to develop TCA, and from our assessment of food systems initiatives around the world, is that transformation is already happening, and True Cost Accounting is a tool to make it visible. In many parts of the world, food production directly drives conflict , poverty, and mistreatment of workers.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As well as initiatives in France and Colombia, the report cites the use of a budget tagging tool in the UK, which calculated that 95% of its autumn 2021 budget was nature-neutral. . Banks, investors and companies that have made ‘net zero’ or ‘deforestation-free’ commitments need to invest, it said. . Enabling environment .

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. The world loses 24 billion tons of topsoil every year, reducing net economic output by up to 8%, according to a 2019 address by U.N. The birdsong is unreal. And above it all, a stork wheels.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 31, 2022

IT security needs AI Analytics and Machine Learning automations to instantly determine which endpoints can be allowed on the network and what access privileges to grant, even as endpoints move fluidly around the physical and virtual world. This makes it possible to set up zero-trust networking in a campus and hybrid work environment.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 19, 2022

Coming out of college, I decided to join a training program for a bank where I got to meet a lot of business leaders as a commercial banking relationship manager. When I was in business school, I went to work in mergers and acquisitions at an investment bank. He or she might just see this if we tag them.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Funding “nowhere close” to addressing scale and scope of problem, writes Preety Bhandari, Senior Advisor, Global Climate Programme and the Finance Centre at the World Resources Institute. Since 2000 , over four billion lives have been impacted and US$2.9 trillion lost to disasters, the bulk of which are attributable to extreme weather events.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

For the smaller debt management offices of some countries, they’ve already run out of projects they can tag as pure green,” notes Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank. . Borrowing to fund public spending is an attractive proposition. . What’s really moving the needle?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

The HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme noted that enterprise value reporting is “backward-looking” and therefore of less use to pension funds. This is exacerbated by the effects of discounting (i.e.,

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Climate Change Net Zero Sustainable Investment Development 52

3BL Media

JUNE 14, 2022

There will be a marketplace featuring more than 20 Mana Up companies including Tag Aloha, Vitalitea Hawai‘i, Kapa Nui Nails, ‘Ulu Mana, Big Island Coffee Roasters and Utara Organics, plus a bar with specialty cocktails handcrafted by K? The event will showcase artists and performances by Kul?iwi, Hana Rum and Pono Potions. “We

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3BL Media

MARCH 29, 2022

For example, many organisations across Europe are currently issuing their first European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) filing, in line with a mandate that aims to make reports more easily discoverable and comparable with standardised tagging. A collaborative approach to ESG reporting.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2022

The World Bank estimates the industry is responsible for nearly 20% of all industrial pollution annually. [6]. The software company EVRYTHNG and packaging maker Avery Dennison have launched an effort to tag clothing so that consumers can trace an item’s production process along a supply chain. [18].

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The next 12 months promise to be busy ones in the world of cybersecurity. Recent developments in the space, such as Google's announcement of FLoC [4] and the increased popularity of server-side tracking/tagging, indicate that the online tracking landscape is evolving. Online tracking will continue its slow demise. .

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. North American banks dug in on fossil fuels and pressured GFANZ to capitulate. HSBC, European banks lead on net-zero. What caused this turnaround?

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2022, the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation surveyed 200 HNWIs to discern why the wealthy give; many of the top motivations—personal satisfaction, giving back, furthering a legacy or family tradition, and minimizing taxes, for example—relate to the self. This idea may not be as exaggerated as it sounds.

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Jon Hale

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: As big as the public sector effort is across all our countries, the $100-trillion plus price tag to address climate change globally is far bigger. The gap between what governments have and what the world needs is large, and the private sector needs to play a bigger role.

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