GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

The funding, led by venture capital firm Draper Esprit, brings Cervest’s total backing to $36.2 Cervest, founded and fronted by former banking and agribusiness exec Iggy Bassi, is developing a platform called EarthScan that corporations can use to map physical assets and assess potential exposure to climate risks.

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Startups Real Estate Resilience Innovation 406

GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

Building capacity and providing patient capital at the farmer level is a big challenge; at NatureVest, it is referred to as the last-mile problem. It is all high-risk business, and as such, it is not always successful. Resistance to change is universal.

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Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 372

GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

That’s the big question that takes center stage at the recent annual conference hosted by Imperial College Business School. It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre , a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We know this is an issue that many of our 40 million customers care deeply about, particularly in our retail and private banking businesses," Quinn wrote. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners. Any further financing of oil, gas and coal expansion today is utterly at odds with a net-zero commitment by 2050.

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Fossil fuels Retail Climate change Investment 470

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The loss of these key customers might have wiped out many of these local growers, if not for another COVID-19-induced phenomenon: individual shoppers started calling — and calling — and calling. But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand." They also looked more agile and resilient.

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Sustainability Organic Resilience Agriculture 522

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

And hypocrisy, or lack of action, is being called out. Take the Business Roundtable, a group of companies whose 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received copious press coverage. The unmasking of Corporate America. Joel Makower. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:11. Companies are being asked to show, not just tell.

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Investment Sustainability Pollution Organic 447

GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. The 2021 proxy season is officially here — much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020.

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Climate change Investment Global warming Demand 448

Low Impact

JANUARY 24, 2021

I have a contract to produce a book about growing a new economy ‘in the cracks in capitalism’, with mutual credit at the core. This article is a listing of key resources: video interviews I’ve done with relevant people whilst researching the book, plus articles providing additional information. Core videos.

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Politics Resilience Electricity 97

GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

Corporate finance departments haven’t historically been positioned to create impact within their organizations, but an ever-increasing amount of attention on ESG ; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and racial justice initiatives has led C-suite executives to look holistically at their business practices for opportunities to innovate.

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Investment Organic Resilience Innovation 244

GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

As just one example of a once-nascent idea, Shelton Group pointed to the call by buyers for consumer brand companies and others in the consumer products value chain to transition away from plastics that eventually end up in the ocean. It first shared the findings during the webcast. Here are a few key takeaways.

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Sustainability Plastics Climate change Government 307

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Puraffinity CEO, Henrik Hagemann This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Puraffinity. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investors Kindred Capital, HG Ventures, Verve Ventures and Acequia Capital. in Series A funding.

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Incubators Incubators Patents Health 130

GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Ingram helps advise institutional asset owners on how to protect and grow long-term capital by integrating ESG risks and opportunities into investment decisions. As a Brit based in Santa Monica, California, Daniel E. Ingram is the chair of investment advisory company Wilshire’s ESG and Diversity Committee. Wilshire, which has more than $8.6

Climate change 305

Climate change Investment Health Government 305

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis. Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Joel Makower.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Law Carbon-negative 519

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies.

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Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 486

GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'. As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. Deonna Anderson.

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Organic Government Climate change Sustainability 479

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. They recognized that without reliable climate-related financial information, assets could be mispriced and capital could be misallocated, meaning the global economy potentially could face a tumultuous transition to a low-carbon future. Ateli Iyalla. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05.

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Climate change Carbon Government Health 314

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is a big business. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S.

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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Sustainability Organic 470

GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

and your wholesale business. and your wholesale business. Twenty years ago, I joined the Boots business when it was just a U.K. I joined Boots because it had come bottom in the first "Companies That Count" survey that an organization called Business in the Community had put together. Deonna Anderson.

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Packaging Plastics Climate change Retail 479

Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

[I published this piece, co-authored with Paul Polman, in Harvard Business Review a few weeks ago. This is another in the realm of the “business case” for sustainability (within a corporation for its own capital and investment decisions, not as an investment thesis for investors). ” every day. They shouldn’t.

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Investment Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 147

GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2020

Bush Brothers, a family-owned business, has been operating in the small community of Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, for over 110 years. This was the wake-up call the executives needed to replace that pipe with something better. . businesses. The project was completed in the fall of 2019.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Waste Waste 336

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be.

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 545

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We call it GreenFin, our portmanteau for "green finance." It may well be the most dynamic and impactful aspect of sustainable business today. Combine that with the growth of related finance products and services — sustainability-linked loans and bonds — and you can find sustainability sitting squarely on Wall Street. Tower of Babel.

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Sustainability Organic Investment Biodiversity 369

GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Authentic equitable business practices. Investment management company BlackRock recently pledged to conduct a third-party racial equity audit that will investigate how the company’s business practices and behavior contributes to systemic racism. In the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, hundreds of U.S.

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Policy Investment Sustainability 301

GreenBiz

APRIL 8, 2021

On S&P 500 earnings calls in the fourth quarter, 28 companies discussed climate change and energy policy, outpacing the 19 that mentioned COVID-19 policy, according to Factset. I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. In the 1970s, when the U.S.

Climate change 402

Climate change Sustainability Patents Investment 402

GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones.

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Sustainability Health Waste Waste 532

GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. A growing number of businesses, governments and civil society organizations are coming together to drive the change through the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). We would need 1.5

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Plastics Fossil fuels Recycled materials Recycling 512

Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Which industries are most at risk, why it's hard to measure nature and what is the new meaning of "good business sense". Last month, a report on the credit implications of natural capital from Moody's Investor Service clearly indicates that nature has landed on the institutional investor's desk. Nature and biodiversity do not.

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Biodiversity Soil Carbon Agriculture 79

GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

The key to long-term success in the fashion industry is to start trends and continually push the envelope — a philosophy that also applies to its ESG priorities. Without any intervention, that figure is projected to increase more than 60 percent by 2030.

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Technology Fashion Sustainability Energy Monitor 495

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ).

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 499

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But as the NAO makes painfully clear, inflation means the capital budget will not stretch as far as expected. There is a substantial business angle here. The NAO report also pointedly highlights how businesses rarely provide funding for the local flood protection projects from which they benefit.

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Resilience Climate change Government Africa 101

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While most proposals originate with company management, a growing investor movement uses shareholder proposals or resolutions to promote more sustainable business practices. Mon, 10/05/2020 - 02:00. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted Sept. First, some background. Risk and opportunity signals. Data source: Si2.

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Retail Policy Government Organic 317

Andrew Winston

MARCH 3, 2021

But I promised to post everything I write here, so this is my annual end of year article, looking back at 2020. Check out the whole article on HBR.org. Business innovated to help the world cope with Covid. The business world said “Black Lives Matter.”. Calls to reset capitalism rose.

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Fossil fuels Sustainability Innovation Climate change 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The B Corp Finance Coalition UK has today called on finance firms to commit themselves to "higher stakeholder accountability", urging firms to amend their constitutional documents to "align with broader stakeholder needs". This article first appeared at Investment Week.

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Investment Government Sustainability 84

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New York sustainability: Urban sustainability that supports the green business. For the purpose-driven business operating within the New York district, this Green Business Bureau article looks at the New York sustainability agenda to detail the developments this city is championing to achieve urban sustainability.

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Sustainability Electric vehicle Innovation Stormwater 78

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

HSBC Asset Management has appointed a new Climate Technology team called 'Climatech' as part of its strategy to expand direct investment capabilities in alternatives. He has over 16 years' experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate M&A, energy contracts and venture capital.

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Technology Investment Startups Agriculture 62

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This is the second article in a series. “What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. Read part one here.

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Startups Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 246

Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Investor sets our its plan and priorities for pushing more investment into natural capital in order to combat nature and climate risk. Schroders has today unveiled a ‘Plan for Nature' setting out the asset manager's priorities to push investment into natural capital.

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