Assessing Corporate DEI+J Maturity
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 4, 2023
And now with growing political backlash and risk of litigation, progress that has been made is under threat as businesses consider muting or even pausing their DEI+J efforts.
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Qualcomm's Approach to Public Policy and Regulation
3BL Media
JULY 20, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Qualcomm has been a committed partner to countries around the world for more than 30 years, supporting policies that encourage innovation, fostering the proliferation of mobile technology and enabling business-friendly environments globally. Choose a topic and find out where we stand. SOURCE: Qualcomm.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Publisher's Note: The times call for heroic climate action – and shedding long-held beliefs
Corporate Knights
APRIL 26, 2024
Like many in the environmental movement, I long thought of political conservatives as a nemesis for the environment. If there is one thing we know, it is that the environment cannot be a political football. We all hold on to shibboleths – long-standing beliefs accepted by a particular group of people that are often no longer true.
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Episode 262: In praise of climate lobbying, renewable aggregation deals
GreenBiz
APRIL 2, 2021
Nonprofit ClimateVoice is asking workers for Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to sign a petition urging those companies to spend at least one-in-five of their lobbying dollars this year to support "bold, just and equitable climate policy." Policy & Politics. Executive Director Bill Weihl discusses the campaign.
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Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’
GreenBiz
MAY 13, 2021
Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’. Often the most difficult aspect of a corporate sustainability professional’s job isn’t conducting materiality assessments, developing SASB indices or creating ESG reports — it’s dealing with good, old-fashioned organizational politics. ESG efforts should not and cannot be political.
Sustainability Wins a Seat at the Table
3BL Media
JUNE 13, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Two weeks ago, global business and political leaders met at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss geopolitical and environmental challenges. The need to move towards a net-zero economy, regenerative businesses, and an inclusive global economy were the key topics on the agenda. SOURCE: SAP.
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Biden-Harris: The work begins
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
Whatever your political leanings, the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States increases the odds of bringing America back into the community of nations addressing the climate crisis. There is public policy to enact and implement. Most companies have been woefully silent on climate policy. Policy & Politics.
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Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train
GreenBiz
JUNE 18, 2021
Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With an aggressive national recycling target (50 percent by 2030); a renewed White House focus on climate change; and clamor for consistent state rules around cutting trash, the federal sustainability policy train is leaving the station. Arlene Karidis.
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Carbon pricing works, and this proves it
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. Avoid the politics if possible. Unfortunately, the politics of carbon pricing have been highly poisoned in Australia, despite its popularity in a number of countries with conservative governments, including Britain and Germany.
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In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science
GreenBiz
AUGUST 31, 2020
A new blueprint from Ceres, the Blueprint for Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change , lays out a science-based action agenda for companies in the U.S. First, advocate for science-based climate policy. This includes ensuring trade associations a company may belong to are not promoting policies that are not based on science.
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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
He is advocating for a higher minimum wage, among other policies to address economic inequality. They engage with companies to improve policies on issues ranging from human rights to diversity and water use. Advancing policies that support the growth of a sustainable American economy also supports U.S. Policy & Politics.
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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Climate lobbying" in the report is defined as efforts "to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.". Policy & Politics. After all, the $41 million ExxonMobil spent on climate lobbying in 2019 ( according to InfluenceMap ) exceeds the entire $37 million annual operating budget ( 2019 ) of Greenpeace USA.
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The GRI Perspective: Lobbying, Influence and Accountability
3BL Media
JUNE 16, 2022
Yet what is the role of lobbying, in influencing the policies and rules that ultimately ensure whether such pledges are met? Issue seven of The GRI Perspective , the regular series on topical themes in the world of sustainability reporting, takes a deep dive on this issue. GRI_Secretariat delves into the debate in a new paper: [link].
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Green growth or “degrowth”? That is the question
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
However, our survey of nearly 800 climate policy researchers from around the world reveals widespread scepticism toward the concept in high-income countries, amid mounting literature arguing that the principle may neither be viable nor desirable.
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Episode 247: Biden wish lists, supporting 'intersectional environmentalists'
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 4, 2020
How financial policy could charge up clean energy (29:00) . Without Congressional control, President-elect Joe Biden will find it tough to pass ambitious climate action, but he can do much by aligning financial policies to address risks associated with climate-fueling activities. Carbon Policy. Policy & Politics.
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Can Amazon nations save the rainforest if we keep cutting it down?
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 14, 2023
The outcome was widely considered a political defeat for Brazil’s president, who has been lobbying for months to convince his neighbours to commit to ending deforestation by 2030. Indeed, Lula has been marshalling an about-face on Brazil’s environmental reputation, which took a beating under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.
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We need to talk about meat
Corporate Knights
APRIL 15, 2024
It’s a touchy topic. The researchers concluded that all that polarization “may diminish the extent to which political leaders will prioritise this in policy agendas.” million cars off the road. But even climate-concerned politicians tend to stay away from the issue with a 10-foot pole.
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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 14, 2021
Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S. EU’s new chemical policy vision. Policy & Politics. It has now proposed a new vision for a "toxic-free environment" and published a strategy for moving the EU towards that goal.
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Council on Foreign Relations Proposes Agenda: “Renew America” & Strengthen U.S. Global Influence
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Where do we stand on global issues – where should we stand on policies and practices (and what should the U.S. foreign policy and international relations. On energy and climate change: CFR experts share a “filter” of perspectives on the topics, including the perspectives of the U.S. stand for”)?
Corporate Responsibility, Governance, and Ethics at Quest Diagnostics
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
We are committed to implementing policies and practices to achieve the highest standards of business ethics and integrity in our operations, including our supply chain. These include ethics, compliance, data privacy, cybersecurity, enterprise risk management, and supply chain management, a priority material topic for Quest.
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3BL Media Announces 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2022
3BL Media
MAY 18, 2022
To ensure companies in the ranking were not lobbying against Paris Climate Agreement-aligned policies, in 2021 3BL Media partnered with InfluenceMap to assess a “red flag” penalty to such oppositional companies. PepsiCo, Apple, Microsoft, PSEG and Salesforce were the only companies to receive this “green flag.”.
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Electrification gets down to the wire
GreenBiz
APRIL 20, 2021
The once-humdrum electricity sector has become a hub of interest and innovation for the worlds of energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, transportation, buildings, policy, finance and others. It will fall to the private sector as much as the public sector to drive these changes, both politically and economically. Energy & Climate.
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Getting Ready for CSRD Compliance: Why You Need To Identify the Risks and Opportunities Climate Change Poses to Your Business
3BL Media
OCTOBER 13, 2023
The first set of CSRD standards includes two cross-cutting standards and ten topical standards that companies must report against according to a double materiality assessment. This article focuses on the Climate Change topical standard of the CSRD, known as ESRS E1. Severe impacts of extreme weather events worldwide (e.g.
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JUST Capital Launches 2024 ‘JUST Jobs Scorecard’ Assessing Corporate Performance on Quality Jobs
Just Capital
APRIL 5, 2024
NEW YORK – Today, JUST Capital released the second edition of the JUST Jobs Scorecard, a data-driven interactive tool for companies to measure performance and gauge transparency on key job quality practices and worker policies. We know from our polling that across demographics and political affiliations, this is what the public wants.
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4 things we can learn from Indigenous wisdom
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Even with the various layers of policies, laws and penalties in place to keep businesses in check, Mitchell believes the "destruction of the earth has become a pay-to-play endeavor. Our society's utilitarian mindset has given us a need to create metrics of success in all aspects of life, including political movements. Climate Change.
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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on
GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2020
And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of "the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.". To the extent that the statement gave political cover to CEOs that had been reticent to jump in, great.
The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Policy & Politics. Goals to electrify fleets, install EV chargers and charging depots, and end gas car sales, are totally doable — and in fact necessary — over the next decade. Pull Quote. Electric vehicles will begin to cost the same as their fossil fuel counterparts between 2025 and 2029, depending on the vehicle type.
Episode 243: VERGE voices with Apple's Lisa Jackson, 350.org's Bill McKibben
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple , reflects on the intersection of racial inequity and climate strategy; how it's shaping the company's circular economy strategy. Policy & Politics. The top 25 most sustainable fleets. VERGE 20 mainstage highlights (16:55) . Contributors.
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The open source movement takes on climate data
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Opening up and sharing our contribution of significant and relevant sustainability data through the LF Climate Finance Foundation will help advance the financial modeling and understanding of climate change impact — an important step in affecting political change. Pull Quote. Technology. Featured Column. Practical Magic. Sponsored Article.
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Stewards of Life Out Here: Governance
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
To that end, we continually review our corporate governance policies and practices and compare them to the best practices of other publicly traded companies. It provides guidance on topics including management and Team Member responsibilities, business ethics and fair dealing, conflicts of interest, compliance, conduct, safety and more.
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Two pioneers chart paths to energy justice
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2021
6 Capitol riot, an entrepreneur and a scholar challenged audiences to picture how an enterprise and a policy regime could supply solar and other fossil-free energy to more people with more broadly dispersed downsides. In a discussion that tacked to the personal and political, Baker and Klee reviewed principles for renewable energy economics.
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How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. It’s also possible that market signals could drive many of these notions forward without policy action. "We Policy & Politics.
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Differing Perspectives on Climate “Will Be Respected” by Net Zero Policy Taskforce
Chris Hall
DECEMBER 5, 2023
It’s clear that regulators and policymakers are wanting to provide more guidance and direction as we’re dealing with these systemic risks and having the taskforce to bring the ecosystem together seemed like a really smart thing to do.” Political cycles The taskforce’s launch comes as concerns on political rollbacks on climate action grow.
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How cities can influence the energy system
GreenBiz
AUGUST 12, 2020
cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Influencing statewide energy policy. Engaging in state-level regulatory proceedings.
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Spring into Action
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Tim Steinweg, Head of Stewardship – Nature at Principles for Responsible Investment, outlines why systemic policy alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework is vital to halt nature loss. There’s a social element to protecting the forest that makes this such an interesting topic, at least for me personally.”
Lessons from the ‘yellow vests’
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 28, 2022
Coming from the United States, a country that’s politically polarized over the topic of climate change, I expected the yellow vest activists to be right-wing opponents to climate policy. Can climate policy be implemented with less conflict ? Yet I found something entirely different.
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The G7 Summit 2022 Is Coming. Here's Why All Global Citizens Should Be Paying Attention
3BL Media
JUNE 10, 2022
G7 countries are economic, political heavyweights with the power to tackle urgent global issues. This year, the to-do list for the leaders of seven of the world’s economic and political heavyweights is long — from ending the COVID-19 pandemic, to averting an impending global food crisis, to taking meaningful action on climate change.
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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts
GreenBiz
APRIL 7, 2021
Indeed, there are big payoffs for both civil society and governments that implement open data policies. And it couldn’t be more critical: countries must demonstrate increased climate ambition while building trust — both domestically and internationally — through the transparent and accountable implementation of policies. Contributors.
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Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2020
So failure to address one issue is just going to exacerbate the risk of another," said Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Company Network and lead author of the nonprofit’s latest set of suggested strategic, operational and policy change actions necessary for the corporate world to meet the warming-mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement.
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When it comes to social and environmental justice, words don’t cut it
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2021
It’s not just about diverse hiring [policies]. Banks’ discriminatory policies on mortgage lending, checking accounts and small business funding have perpetuated racism for decades, the investors argue. Policy & Politics. We want you to look at your core business practices. That’s going to lose us money.". Social Justice.
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Indirect Lobbying Thwarts Investor Scrutiny – PRI
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Greater transparency on political engagement by investee firms is “just the first step” to a more integrated and proactive approach. Responsible investors are hindered in their attempts to probe political engagement by companies whose shares they own by the opaque nature of much of their activity. Focus on climate.
Politics in Focus at Upcoming AGMs
Chris Hall
MARCH 24, 2023
Corporate political influence resolutions remain the second largest slice of ESG resolutions filed (17%) after climate change (23%), with it now split in three roughly equal buckets: lobbying, election spending and value congruency of company policies.
What the G7 meeting means for boards of directors
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2021
Policy & Politics. Climate reporting is no longer a nice-to-have — it is necessary, and it is time to embed climate into good governance. Pull Quote. The writing on the wall is clear. It is time to revisit the business strategy and discuss scenarios, transition plans to net-zero and reporting. Corporate Governance. Sponsored Article.
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Episode 236: Banking for the planet and behind the scenes of Generation Green New Deal
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
The upcoming feature documentary Generation Green New Deal tells the story of how young people are pushing climate change to the center of American politics. Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice president of policy and strategy for Data for Progress, is one of the young people who has played a critical role in shaping the Green New Deal.
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