3BL Media

JANUARY 26, 2024

The UN also emphasizes the role and power of education to address some of the most pressing global challenges - such as climate change, discrimination, violence, and societal inequalities. This groundbreaking update requires all organizations using GRI Standards to report on how they respect human rights.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

“We do believe that more than ever, not only because of the pandemic but also because of the war in Ukraine, there are two things that really become even more important than any other topic: food security and climate change,” Santos said. Those two topics are probably on the agenda of every conversation that we have.”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC. One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. . As of Monday, his new company, Climate Real Impact Solutions (CRIS), had raised more than $230 million for the purpose of merging with a company focused on solving the climate crisis. .

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Green Project Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

People genuinely want to help, some just want to be seen as wanting to help, but that is a topic for another article… We gather at CoP meetings, climate weeks, and various awareness days, among other […] The post Human Sustainability: our Focus is all Wrong. appeared first on Driving Sustainable Change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Beyond human rights disclosures embedded in GRI’s Universal Standards 2021 and GRI’s social topic standards, the GRI Climate Change exposure draft places a great focus on the human aspect of climate change and the concept of just transition. The public comment is open until February 29 th , 2024.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Join GreenBiz and SilviaTerra co-founder and CEO Zack Parisa for a discussion about the correlation between climate change, biodiversity, and community. These goals can drive impact beyond climate — from strengthening of rural communities to improving habitats for biodiversity. The framework for evaluating a co-benefit project.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

September 29, 2023 /3BL/ - The Inogen Alliance Global Water Working Group is hosting a webinar on the topic of Flood Risk and Climate Resilience relating to ESG on 19 October. Flood Risk & Climate Change fall within the E of ESG and is part of a series of Physical Risks. Please Register Here!

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3BL Media

MARCH 6, 2024

The IBM Sustainability Accelerator applies IBM technology, including IBM watsonx, an AI and data platform and AI assistants, to support populations vulnerable to environmental threats around the world, with a new RFP and sustainability topic announced each year.

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3BL Media

MAY 3, 2024

PotlatchDeltic utilizes an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework to identify, assess and mitigate significant risks facing the Company, including risks related to a range of corporate responsibility topics. Certain material risks facing our business are discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K under Part I - Item 1A.

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2024

One key aspect of these reports is the identification of material topics. Water is often recognized as a material topic for industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, and utilities due to the water intensive and water dependent nature of their operations.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2022

Date/Time: January 13, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Reducing emissions across all sectors is critical if we are to combat climate change. Among the topics: What sustainable and resilient infrastructure looks like in the future. Collaboration opportunities to bring down emissions in the built environment.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

Companies are feeling the pressure to report on Environment, Social, and Governance-related (ESG) topics— but many are confused about where to begin. Throughout this blog series, we’ll explore how to start planning, what these requirements mean, and how to phase new regulations into annual reporting processes.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Amid the ongoing race to slow the pace of climate change, Crown continues to take a proactive role in industry sustainability initiatives. Long-term decarbonization remains at the forefront of those efforts, with Climate Action and Optimum Circularity as two core pillars of focus within our ongoing Twentyby30™ program.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Jamaica was on hurricane watch in the days leading up to the UN COP28 climate summit. An unusual tropical storm swinging in from the west was heading for the Caribbean, a region often in the eye of the changing climate, with intensifying storms, record flooding, devastating drought and crumbling coastlines.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

After years of debate over the definition of materiality, 2020 has brought a consensus that materiality is double — meaning that businesses should report on financially material topics that influence enterprise value as well as topics material to the economy, environment and people. Take the topic of climate change.

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VIBE

MAY 17, 2023

Acknowledging the profound link between the built environment and sustainability, there is growing demand for transformative change in the real estate sector. As climate impacts intensify, investors, regulators, and tenants are driving the sector toward decarbonization on a pathway consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

GRI North America is pleased to share that the revised Climate Change and Energy Standard drafts were approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) earlier this week. US-based Technical Committee members included representatives from Microsoft, GHG Protocol Initiative of the World Research Institute, WWF, and Shift.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Reputational Risks and Opportunities: Managing the Impacts of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Building a supply chain that is resilient to the impacts of both climate change and COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global economy and its supply chains. Speakers: . More to be announced.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The most popular ESG topics over the quarter were climate transition, sustainability and supply chain management, followed by company culture and human capital management. The firm found that climate transition in particular is also increasingly coming under the sell-side spotlight. The sell-side spotlight.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2021

The SEC’s change of climate on climate change and ESG. Who wants to be a climate-tech billionaire? Episode 260: Disclosure dialogue, your employees want purpose. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/19/2021 - 00:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (3:50). Car companies are now battery companies. Finance & Investing.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Climate and Justice make a Great Pair . and commitment to climate —. as wildfire climate destroys. Climate’s urgent need. Climate Change. BLM joins COVID-19. In this raw moment, we are dually confronted. Here’s how to respond. Not mere Facebook friends, these two spawn recovery, lift communities.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative. ESG funds, including those focused on climate change mitigation, do not fare better. A recent survey by PRI illustrated that globally, women are more engaged on climate-related issues than men, especially for people 35 and older. Marilyn Waite.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2023

Lack of access to modern energy systems is often a constraint to human and economic development, and wasteful use of renewable and non-renewable sources of energy can have a negative impact on climate and health. To address these challenges, EcoSuggest helps people play a role in climate change mitigation and disaster risk reduction.

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3BL Media

MARCH 12, 2024

On March 6, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) released its Final Rules on climate disclosures, designed to “enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings." Breaking news on sustainability disclosure and reporting for corporate boards and management teams!

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation. Although many organizations have adopted ESG principles, executives and boards could do more to meet the demands of institutional investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders especially in regard to climate change risk. Nidia Martínez.

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3BL Media

JUNE 13, 2022

The need to move towards a net-zero economy, regenerative businesses, and an inclusive global economy were the key topics on the agenda. The results show that topics such as climate change, regenerative business, and diverse workplaces are on top of executives’ agendas. Read the full research report.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Episode 261: Sea changes, strategy shifts. A new guide from the nonprofit BSR suggests ways companies can anticipate material changes to their operations, develop and test strategies to adapt — ones that will help them become part of "thriving societies." WBCSD's guide to changing minds on systems change (46:05).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The scale and scope of the climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality challenges facing corporate leaders is extensive. "[We] But that takes courage," said Polman, who in 2019 created Imagine, a foundation aimed at eradicating poverty and inequality and stemming runaway climate change. Another shot.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. . Maria Mendiluce.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Episode 258: Hacking climate solutions, finding 'good work'. Hacking the climate crisis (21:10). Sanjana Paul , a 23-year-old scientist, electrical engineer and environmental activist, is executive director of EarthHacks, a hackathon that encourages college students to surface solutions for combating climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Where our previous post provided an overview of the CSRD and who it affects, this piece focuses on the concept of 'double materiality', one of the most important changes to the reporting process under the new regulation. The topics should cover all relevant ESG subjects for the company and organisations should adopt a multi-source approach.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To do so, business leaders emphasized the importance of expanding ESG/sustainability collaborative efforts across internal functional teams, through industrywide initiatives and with external partners to drive meaningful change. In case you missed it, here are a few of the key takeaways.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

In this commentary, we suggest that current ESG research, analysis and investing practices pay insufficient attention to one of most important issues of our time: how people, societies and companies will adapt to a changing climate, and what that portends for stock and corporate bond investments. The elephant in the room.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions. Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Certainly, this is a vision all climate-concerned citizens can support, and the opportunity to influence banking as citizens is large. Why don’t more people choose to bank with climate-friendly retail banks that have clear environmental investment and loan policies? Our minds are lazy, so the change needs to be easy.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

A CFO’s take on climate and risk management. Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5 Vincent Manier. Mon, 07/13/2020 - 01:00. percent to 7.5 percent by 2050.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SEC’s upcoming climate disclosure rules , and other jurisdictions, including Australia , Brazil , Singapore , and the UK.

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