GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? . 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. Program Manager, Datacenter Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft; Seattle.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. In response to the crisis, Coca-Cola is investing an additional $500 million into developing contracts with Black-owned businesses over the next five years — more than double its current spend. "It Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Climate TRACE is just the latest example of the former vice president’s decades-long commitment to educating the world about the climate crisis, through The Climate Reality Project, and to investing in technologies and solutions that could address it, through Generation Investment Manager. . To be clear, the data isn’t encouraging.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Liz Truss ’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We need strong public sector commitments to mitigate the global food crisis. These examples show the importance for every company to take a step back and look at the overall picture, understand what a 1.5 Sustainability leaders must vote at the polls and with their wallets.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Covid has made clear that there cannot be healthy people on an unhealthy planet," said Polman during his webcast conversation with Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of GreenBiz. Polman noted that people are starting to realise the importance of social cohesion. The real 'Black Swan' has been the lack of leadership.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Early hopes that a reduction in commuting would reduce overall worldwide greenhouse emissions came to little and so the environment is as important an issue as ever. Similarly, the study's expert participants identified passion and conviction as important attributes. A campaigning spirit is important.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

Show the value of ESG within the context of leadership’s biggest concern of the moment, or how it builds on their greatest success, and leadership will listen. “Understanding the cadence of who to get buy-in from, what’s important to them and really understanding how the ESG work impacts their goals is important.”

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Corporate philanthropy becomes a renewed focus for leadership companies Myisha Majumder Tue, 02/23/2021 – 00:05 In 2020, philanthropic donations by major donors saw an almost 7 percent increase on a year-to-date basis. during COVID-19 and nearly one-third of U.S. employees participate in “a company well-being program.”

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Tell me why that feels like such an important part of who you became. McDonough: I was at Yale, and we had the energy crisis in 1973. And I worked on that during the whole time I was at Yale and a year after. I am sure there are some pivotal moments when you think about your journey to today. I was freezing, and I had no money.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

COVID has made clear that there cannot be healthy people on an unhealthy planet,” said Polman during his webcast conversation with Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of GreenBiz. Polman noted that people are starting to realize the importance of social cohesion. The real Black Swan has been the lack of leadership.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This interview is part of Greentown Labs’ Climatetech Leadership Series, which profiles C-level executives from our most committed and climate-oriented partners. Pierre-André de Chalendar Answer: I would say that each crisis is different. During the Great Recession we were quite quick; during COVID we’ve been extremely quick.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S. The urgency of now is underscored by the climate crisis and the need for climate justice. of how the climate crisis affects people. of how the climate crisis affects people. political will.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. “My COP25 is our opportunity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A shift is being quickened in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, a greater unveiling of racial injustice and the blazing West Coast skylines worsened by the climate crisis. asked Garry Cooper, CEO of Rheaply, a startup in asset efficiency software, during the recent VERGE 20 virtual event. Leadership. What is this systems change?"

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Global Leadership Coalition. One in five is Black.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

If you want to know what state-level clean energy leadership looks like, look no further than New Jersey. . They show how a state can signal the opportunities inherent in the clean energy economy, and the importance that it works for everyone. . That is extremely important. It's important for us to seize the moment; carpe diem.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is the moment to reimagine public transportation Amanda Eaken Tue, 09/29/2020 – 00:21 Back in April, the city of Seattle temporarily closed off nearly 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic in order to let residents bike, walk, jog and skate at a safe social distance during the height of the city’s COVID-19 pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The Wild Coast is a famous migratory path for whales moving north from Antarctica during winter in search of warmer waters and then returning to the Antarctic Ocean at the start of summer. Though it added that it agreed with Shell that “the matter is of significant importance and requires ventilation by the Supreme Court of Appeal”.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Moreover, it calls on countries to "accelerate" action in the 2020s and emphasises the importance of limiting warming to 1.5C goal without the leadership of the G20. by the end of the century, marking a step up from previous G20 statements which have focused more on the less ambitious 2C target. "We are much lower than at 2C," states.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is the first article in a series. The country awarded landmark supply contracts for flexible renewable power, an important step in addressing the limitations of intermittent wind and solar. While leadership reaffirmed the country’s lofty goals, the pace of renewable energy deployment in India slowed significantly in 2020.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

In January, the momentum built as Microsoft committed to becoming carbon-negative and BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink’s now-fabled letter to CEOs called the climate crisis a "defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects." The climate crisis even topped the discussion list at the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in Davos.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Or you can show leadership and you can make the choices that will make you country stronger and your people richer.". "The world will see, and your people will remember, and history will judge. You can look away, you can do the minimum, you can hope that if you feed the crocodile enough it will devour you last.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

This Crisis Changes That") proclaiming that when it comes to corporate commitments and programs, "executives have called a timeout." Yes, we get it: No one wants to share a vehicle with strangers or refill an unwashed coffee mug during a pandemic. Leadership. Sponsored Article. State of the Profession. Featured Column.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact Heather Clancy Mon, 10/12/2020 – 00:15 The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. So together with our leadership team, we took quite a number of months and pored over each and every word.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

Resilience 28

Resilience Climate change Carbon-negative Blockchain 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? 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.

Sustainability 28

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. That is why it's very important for us to have an opinion about the agriculture model we want.". Leadership. Sponsored Article.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 2, 2023

Impetus’ Digital’s Co-founder & CEO Natalie Yeadon planting a tree during the 2022 Earth Week celebrations In addition, Impetus Digital typically donates money to a medical or environmental charity at the end of each year; for the past two years, this money has been used to plant even more trees.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Both the fields of solar panels Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss apparently loathes, and the fields of gambolling lambs she idolises are very much human constructs. We want to play an important role in transforming the world's supply chains to be regenerative," supermarket giant's CEO Doug McMillon said at the time. "We

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

90% of executives believe sustainability is important in business. In this Green Business Bureau article, we present the case for business sustainability. 2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted. Why is sustainability important in business? The case for business sustainability.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ll be posting again soon, but wanted to publish this article that I forgot to post…It’s written with my Net Positive co-author Paul Polman as part of a special Harvard Business Review series on “Preparing for an Era of Uncertainty” Can’t imagine what they mean. New Strategies for Resilience.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

“This maybe goes some way to explaining why this government is set on subsidising new oil and gas fields when they represent such a bad deal for the public, in that they won’t lower bills, won’t increase energy security but will make the climate crisis worse,” she said.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We need strong public sector commitments to mitigate the global food crisis. These examples show the importance for every company to take a step back and look at the overall picture, understand what a 1.5 Sustainability leaders must vote at the polls and with their wallets.

Health 28

Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to supply chain vulnerabilities and this article reviews many of the lessons that have been learned as well as their implications for our climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. Creating sustainable supply chains requires leadership that includes integrating a wide range of metrics.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

That's why British personal care company The Body Shop is supporting a relatively unique effort, dubbed The Body Shop Youth Collective , to bring another group of stakeholders to the decision-making table: youth under 30, a generation that has had little to do with creating the climate crisis but who will live longest with its impact.

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