GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

[Happy New Year! This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). The discussion around what most now call “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance) has become far more common than I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in the field. Here we go.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Investment Week's Lauren Mason takes the microscope to the Treasury's sweeping new plans to try and accelerate flows of green investment. They will also report environmental impact using the UK Green Taxonomy. They will also report environmental impact using the UK Green Taxonomy. Roadmap for SDR framework to be put in place.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Rethinking the role of sustainability reports. Corporate sustainability has a reporting problem — it always has. Yet, with investors more interested in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues than ever before, this long-standing problem has become an immediate liability for companies looking to maximize shared value.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The former senior counsel at the SEC offers her assessment of the regulators new landmark climate disclosure plans. Kristina Wyatt left the SEC just last month to join Persefoni, a climate management and accounting platform, as its deputy general counsel and senior vice president for global regulatory climate disclosure.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Cathay Financial is one of the largest financial groups in Taiwan and Asia; and for the last four years it has been hosting one of the most influential summits on sustainable finance in the region. For more great analysis of ESG and sustainable finance, sign up for GreenFin Weekly , our free email newsletter.). Wed, 01/20/2021 - 01:00.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 12, 2020

Is that good news for companies? Today, two of those organizations — GRI, formerly the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, better known as SASB — are announcing a collaborative effort to help ease that confusion and, not insignificantly, position their standards as the most consequential.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Those are the good old days. Sustainability - and its finance-oriented cousin, ESG - are now mainstream, which means they are more widely seen and understood - and misunderstood. Far from it. And when it comes to "change", people tend to love the noun (the idea of change) but hate the verb (actually changing).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

Get ready, Corporate America: The carbon disclosure mandates are coming. A slew of announcements earlier this month point to new regulations on carbon disclosure. Acting chairwoman Allison Herren Lee issued a public statement directing the SEC staff "to enhance its focus on climate-related disclosure in public company filings."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

New guide from Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association seeks to tap into 'universal appetite' among pension schemes for providers 'to take climate change seriously and to invest with a sense that a carbon-constrained future is coming'. Pension schemes cannot resolve these issues alone if they are to deliver the change that is necessary.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2022

New York green business certification to support sustainable city design. Voted the third most sustainable city in the world, New York is a place that supports the sustainable business by backing New York green business certification providers. The New York market boasts 8.6

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

A new era of climate- and sustainability-related lawsuits against companies is on the docket. That seems to be the marching orders for climate activists these days. It was summarily dismissed, but it helped pave the way for many others to follow. But it's not just the fossil fuel folks. Send in the lawyers!

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

It's a good time to be an ESG professional. It's one of those be-careful-what-you-wish-for moments. It's an all-hands-on-deck situation. As senior partner, managing director and European ESG leader at Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting group, he's on the frontline of this battle. A very, very good time.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Critical commentary in the trade press after news of the deal broke five months ago — and mockery from influencers — marked a watershed moment in an industry where such deals had rarely been considered through a climate lens. Now, the investors are piling on the pressure.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Critical commentary in the trade press after news of the deal broke five months ago — and mockery from influencers — marked a watershed moment in an industry where such deals had rarely been considered through a climate lens. Now, the investors are piling on the pressure.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The case for ESG certification for companies. An ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) certification is a 3rd party verification system used to accurately show your company has completed key sustainability initiatives, and has become a sustainable business. This article will focus on those ESG certifications and seals.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

We’re seeing so many new ideas and initiatives in sustainable food right now that it’s easy to forget to ask how the sector as a whole is doing. It’s been sobering. The most common solution is to answer the annual surveys from CDP, the nonprofit formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. . Fri, 05/14/2021 - 02:45.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. The company didn’t previously have a renewables target, but it has been emphasizing a goal to reduce energy consumption (per metric ton of product produced) by 15 percent, which it had hoped to achieve by this year.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2021

It’s after dark and the rain pours down warm and the wind blows wildly. Like much of life back in the day, we took the monsoon rains for granted. In 2020 , Arizona experienced its driest monsoon season on record — otherwise known as just a lot of hot wind — with a statewide average of only 1.51 Subscribe here. inches of rain.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

I think we are on the brink of a sustainable mining renaissance in Europe," says Ro Dhawan, arguing that projects in Europe have most of the three essential ingredients required for a successful modern-day mining project: resource availability, ESG credentials, and a favourable legislative and geopolitical environment. "I

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Use the links provided to navigate through this article. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2021

It’s after dark and the rain pours down warm and the wind blows wildly. Like much of life back in the day, we took the monsoon rains for granted. In 2020 , Arizona experienced its driest monsoon season on record — otherwise known as just a lot of hot wind — with a statewide average of only 1.51 Subscribe here. inches of rain.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 28, 2022

A sustainability program will be more effective and successful if it is organized around a framework that tracks priorities, sets goals, measures progress and reports on results. . Document completed green initiatives and enable reporting. Ideally, companies should use software to manage their sustainability framework.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

It often combines another domain of expertise with environmentalism or social responsibility. This article covers a breakdown of types of careers, job titles, roles and responsibilities for both part-time or full-time positions related to sustainable business. So how do you pursue a career in sustainability? Consulting.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Rethinking the role of sustainability reports Mike Hower Tue, 10/20/2020 – 01:00 Corporate sustainability has a reporting problem — it always has. But something isn’t right with the status quo of reporting.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Get ready, Corporate America: The carbon disclosure mandates are coming Tim Mohin Wed, 03/17/2021 – 01:00 A slew of announcements earlier this month point to new regulations on carbon disclosure. ” Also earlier this month, the SEC hired its first senior policy adviser for climate and ESG.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Get ready, Corporate America: The carbon disclosure mandates are coming Tim Mohin Wed, 03/17/2021 – 01:00 A slew of announcements earlier this month point to new regulations on carbon disclosure. ” Also earlier this month, the SEC hired its first senior policy adviser for climate and ESG.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

It often combines another domain of expertise with environmentalism or social responsibility. This article covers a breakdown of types of careers, job titles, roles and responsibilities for both part-time or full-time positions related to sustainable business. So how do you pursue a career in sustainability? Consulting.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Before it fades into the sunset, some highlights from the year just passed from GreenBiz's Joel Makower. As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. Overall, it was more positives than negatives.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

All combined, this year’s cohort reports to offices in 12 nations across six continents, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Lithuania, New Zealand and Rwanda. In the United States, they hail from 15 cities, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to New York City — and several emigrated to the U.S. in childhood.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Given the devastating economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and girls, the imperative to mark International Women’s Day carries more weight than usual this year. . The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, New Zealand. reaches back to 1909.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

The list of their accomplishments is long and growing longer by the day, and they're just getting started. Senior Sustainability Lead, MetLife; New York. We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. LinkedIn .

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For more than a decade, I’ve written a year-end article for Harvard Business Review on the big stories in corporate sustainability from the year gone by. I used to feel like I could capture most of the interesting and important stories in a single article. I can’t even keep up with the news in a given week.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

[Happy New Year all! My biggest article of the year is generally the last one; it’s an attempt to synthesize and summarize big themes in sustainability. It’s a labor of love and pain. Here it is, as seen a few weeks ago in Harvard Business Review ]. It puts the U.S. energy production.”.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Check out some discussion about it on LinkedIn here.] Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but why let that stop us? Last year was volatile, and so was everything around corporate sustainability. So, what will 2024 look like? Climate change will get worse. This is mostly about physics, not prophecy. Eyes will be on India, the U.K.,

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