Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

John Lowry, Project Director at Eirgrid, shares his advice on what it takes to be a successful leader, and provides his view on climate change as an industry challenge, ESG, the effect of the pandemic and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolution. WHAT’S THE BEST BOOK YOU’VE READ OR THE BEST PODCAST YOU’VE LISTENED TO THIS YEAR?

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

Brands have a powerful field of influence on sustainability, and digital packaging innovation offers a chance to lead by example, according to Jose 'Pepe' Gorbea from HP Graphic Arts. It's fair to say that most of us wanted to have superpowers when we were children. The same can be said of the world's businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Another day, I'm collaborating with members of Frontier - an advance market commitment to accelerate carbon removal innovation. Another day, I'm collaborating with members of Frontier - an advance market commitment to accelerate carbon removal innovation. What does a typical day working in sustainability look like for you?

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 15, 2022

As we recruit for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. What inspires you in your work fighting climate change? Only if everyone is served will any of us be served.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 3, 2020

The turn of the decade gives us a chance to say the most important thing: thank you! 2019 marks ten years at this mission — to accelerate solutions to climate change, and deploy those solutions in the communities that need them the most. We are growing beyond Hawaii’s shores to make a bigger dent in solving climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

BusinessGreen has today released a tranche of free passes to the Net Zero Festival 2021 , offering an opportunity for sustainability practitioners and business leaders from around the world to access the latest cutting-edge thinking on how to accelerate the net zero transition and navigate the many challenges and opportunities it offers.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

I don’t love the use of “ESG” in the title here — publishers choose titles and I didn’t object, knowing it would get more views that way, since it is now the term everyone uses. [I published this piece, co-authored with Paul Polman, in Harvard Business Review a few weeks ago. ” every day.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050. All rights reserved 2018). Over time, water is warmed to around 12-20°C.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Join world leaders, policymakers, activists and innovators online as they sketch out the future we want to see, and discuss the best way to get there. This is the world's fastest-growing technology event and it will bring together top decision-makers from the tech industry, including founders, CEOs and leading innovators.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In the not-too-distant past, a small group of architects and people in the building industry, saddened and motivated by the urgent arc of climate change, set out to discover just how much their own profession was to blame. They are trying to change the way materials are made. A careful accounting of embodied carbon.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 2, 2020

7 roles to create sustainable success Ellen Weinreb Fri, 10/02/2020 – 00:30 There is a lot of talk right now about systems change, and for good reason: With so many people experiencing the effects of several major crises — the pandemic, the recession, racism and the ongoing climate crisis — we have a narrow window of opportunity for change.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2022

The Executive Leadership workshop is led by Julie Castro Abrams, CEO of How Women Lead and General Partner at How Women Invest. This WCS Executive Leadership Workshop is spearheaded by Julie Castro Adams, founder and CEO of How Women Lead. 4:40 – 5:00 How to get on Corporate Boards. August 24, 2022.

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Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I actually wrote it last fall as I was thinking through my larger climate strategy piece in HBR. I keep coming back to this question: how do we increase quality of life for what will be 9 or 10 billion people in a climate and resource-constrained world? In other words, how do we grow? Which is true?

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This is an exclusive “Sector Guide” from the Sightline Climate platform, where we cover in-depth climate tech sector landscapes and data. Request a demo for Sightline Climate, or reach out directly to sales@sightlineclimate.com to learn more. Want to go further?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The attacks on the government's net zero agenda are now reportedly coming from within the Cabinet, but vague criticisms of climate action do not add up to a credible alternative plan. Hold on, haven't we seen this one before? This process always goes the same way.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The IPCC released its assessment on whether, and how, the world could hold warming to 1.5 And over Thanksgiving, the US National Climate Assessment came out. It's long past time for companies to go very big on climate action.). In the last couple of months the scientific and policy worlds have issued some dire reports.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - also known as the Brexit Freedoms Bill - is designed to strike the remaining EU laws from the UK's statute book by 2023, which environmental groups have warned could impact as many as 570 retained laws that come under the remit of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. Can’t join live? Ideas for building a supply chain resilient to both short-term disruptions such as the pandemic and long-term risks such as climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

But if we in the UK are going to start flying like its 2019 again at some point, we've got to have a real plan for how to do so without adding carbon into our dangerously saturated atmosphere. Coronavirus has reminded us it's a good idea to listen to the science. The development of climate-safe aviation fuel is undoubtedly a challenge.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. A changing climate is and will always be the top story, the context behind everything (at least in the near future).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Bill Gates wants you to step up on climate. Fortunately for the climate cause, Bill Gates for the last half-decade has invested considerably toward innovations to push the planet toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It's going to take significant investment and bold innovation," he told the GreenBiz virtual crowd.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It’s time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain What does “climate risk” actually mean ? Green Africa, discuss why informal collectors of plastics and recyclables should embrace within formal supply chains — and how to do it. ” You can read an excerpt here.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Sustainability lead Claire Tracey chats to BusinessGreen about the 1.5 million properties on Nationwide's mortgage books, all which need decarbonising if it is to meet its 2050 net zero goal. With more than 1.5 We have about 1.5

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

But you’ve recently got back from Milan in Italy where you were speaking onstage with none other than President Obama, which is of course really exciting because Seeds & Chips , the event you were at, is focused on food and agriculture technology and innovation. campaign with Michelle Obama.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

But you’ve recently got back from Milan in Italy where you were speaking onstage with none other than President Obama, which is of course really exciting because Seeds & Chips , the event you were at, is focused on food and agriculture technology and innovation. campaign with Michelle Obama.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Could passengers be enjoying climate-friendly flights within the UK by 2040? BusinessGreen rounds up the top takeaways from the government's long-awaited Jet Zero Strategy to decarbonise domestic flight by 2040. Here are the five key takeaways. SAF is tipped for rapid growth.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, the Green Business Bureau wanted to help you understand your options for sustainability certification, and with that, learn how to become B Corp Certified. Use the links below to navigate through this guide: What is B Corp? With over 6,000 certified B Corps, this has become a globally recognized certification body.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The next few weeks are critical for nature policymaking, with next week's COP27 Climate Summit to be followed by the crucial COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal next month where governments are expected to hash out a new global treaty for protecting nature.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Roundup of reaction from politicians, NGOs, and business figures as the world's top climate scientists serve up latest evidence on scale of potential climate cataclysm ahead. But the report is also at pains to stress that the future extent of the climate crisis will be determined by the choices societies take over the next few years.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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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. Can your organization say the same?

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

But big questions remain over how the UK will meet hugely ambitious new targets, after government signalled it will not sign off on all the CCC's policy recommendations. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new targets would build on the UK's already world-leading goal to slash emissions 68 per cent by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. But at the same time meeting the targets will require changes in land use and disruptions to supply chains that are likely to prove hugely controversial.

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