Andrew Winston

MAY 26, 2022

We’re finding ourselves back in the “what’s the shareholder value of it? Some variation in how we talk about all of this is helpful, but we also need some common language that’s both relatively easy to comprehend and interesting. The only solution here is elections. 144,000 impressions. 300+ comments.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

As noted in RegenNotes 3, central to the Review, and to progress towards an economy that addresses the natural ecology is the inclusion of ecology as a core educational subject. Who would listen to Bill Gates, billionaire, on how to save the planet,” asks Bill Gates. Gates focuses on two numbers 51billion and Zero.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

This wasn't quite the year that we ordered," noted Committee on Climate Change CEO, Chris Stark, yesterday. This time last year we were congratulating the government for setting its new net zero target and telling them to go away and deliver it," he continued. "12 He isn't wrong.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. The business world is increasingly and genuinely inspired by the idea of building more sustainable businesses. [This appeared in MIT Sloan Management Review last month. It’s co-authored with Elizabeth Doty and Prof.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2022

How do you know when something becomes the norm? Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Here we go.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

We’re switching to a new registration portal. This is the last year we’re using Eventbrite. While excitement and momentum build behind the clean energy transition and new net-zero targets emerge, the question of how to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors remains. Members Register Others Register.

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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.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. These various targets have been supported by number of policies and investments, such as support for new electric vehicle charging infrastructure and new zero carbon home standards.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is staggering to think that over 600 years have passed since the Guildhall's master mason, John Croxton, started work on this incredible building.??. Today, this is the only secular stone building in the City dating back from before 1666.?? With COP26 this year, we want to do what John Croxton did all those centuries ago. ??Leave

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Barclays has just announced how it intends to reach 'net-zero' by 2050, after facing serious investor scrutiny at the start of the year. The UK has no chance of reaching its domestic net-zero goal until British bank lending to fossil fuels is reined in. How can it show its climate concern, when its loan book shows the opposite?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

More than 70 per cent of the world's economy is now covered by net zero targets. In addition, a pandemic has shaken the world, taking millions of lives, wreaking havoc across the economy, and putting further crucial global climate talks on hold. A lot has changed since that crucial summit in 2015. It really is a balance.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

While it may be tempting to try to rebuild the past , we must be realistic and build for the present and the future. As clean-tech investor Tom Rand writes in his new book, The Case for Climate Capitalism , “looking in the rearview mirror is not the best way to gauge where you’re going.”. The good news? So where to direct it?

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Cross party Environmental Justice Commission sets out demands for 'faster, further and fairer' net zero transition. Few concrete spending proposals or recovery plans have so far emerged, however, and the full extent of the economic damage wrought by the pandemic remains unclear.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Take the example of the UK, where the government aims to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

As the third-largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in the world today with an economy that's poised to see massive growth in the future, what happens to India’s energy mix will have a significant impact on the planet and its inhabitants. This is the final piece in a three-part series.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That is our conviction,” said Scholz, adding: “For them to come down, we will need a big defence shield.”. This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances looks at the latest happenings in the Russian-induced market crisis, where explosions of the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines have urged Germany to action with a €200 billion ($196.2

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

Public Accounts Committee unveils scathing assessment of UK’s net zero strategy. The PAC also called on the government to work more closely with local councils on developing regional climate plans, carrying out environmental assessment for all decisions, and funding a major upskilling of workers to enter the expanding green economy workforce.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Bids do not require a building permit but they have to be constructed by April 2024 the latest to access the promised contracts. The latest results were buoyed by the sale of $1.3bn of credits to automakers that are failing to meet US emissions and fuel efficiency standards. Tesla reports first annual profit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The implications that flow from the upgrading of the UK's 2030 carbon target are hard to underestimate - the economy is about to change for the better. A 68 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2030 is a genuinely world-leading target. The plan is starting to come together. Within hours he had done just that.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

The current plan is that we are going to be the biggest green energy company in the world," Fawaz Al Muharrami, Masdar's acting executive director for clean energy, tells BusinessGreen. Masdar, Abu Dhabi's state-owned clean energy company, harbours some seriously lofty ambitions. But it is hungry for far, far more.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

A new essay collection from Bright Blue argues that net zero will not require vast amounts of public spending, due to the momentum delivered to date on decarbonisation in the UK. We all know how to budget with money," Charter explained. "So,

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Would Rishi Sunak deliver the sweeping net zero financial plan and green stimulus measures that businesses, campaigners, economists, and scientists broadly agree are urgently needed to meet statutory climate goals? If we want a better future economy, we have to make it happen," he said. "If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As senior government ministers hymn the need for investment in net zero, UK’s export finance agency urges British renewables business to export their expertise overseas. NatWest, meanwhile, this morning announced it aims to issue a £600m green bond whose proceeds will be tied to the bank's green mortgage book.

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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. Now, we need you to take the next step.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

But government rubbishes 'nonsense' claims from two MP committees that UK lacks coordinated net zero strategy and clear outcomes for UN climate summit. Ministers have also promised to deliver an overarching net zero strategy bringing all of the UK's various decarbonisation plans together ahead of hosting COP26 in November.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Barra's vision for General Motors includes bringing emissions, crashes and congestion down to zero while becoming the "most inclusive company in the world." To prevent additional layoffs as the pandemic dented sales, Barra took a temporary pay cut, and GM pivoted with partners to build ventilators and masks. Elsa Wenzel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

per cent real terms increase in departmental spending and record levels of infrastructure spending, with the Chancellor highlighting the government's support for both the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and a major new road-building programme. per cent this year. per cent this year. per cent in 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. For those who spend their lives in the countryside, city visits can feel chaotic, confusing, and loud in comparison. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Businesses in the sector fear the Budget represents the last chance to confirm plans for the UK's green heat policy regime before uncertainty around the future of the RHI starts to hit order books. Across the board, developers report that the renewable heat sector is consolidating and project pipelines are slowing," she said.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. So we cannot only invent new solutions but commercialize them and then scale them up quickly.". What does it mean for you?

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today. And I’d say we do have some strong indications of where we could be in 11 years. We probably won’t have the flying cars by 2030.

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Climate change Sea level rise Fossil fuels Technology 60

Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today. And I’d say we do have some strong indications of where we could be in 11 years. We probably won't have the flying cars by 2030.

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Climate change Sea level rise Fossil fuels Technology 60

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The carbon footprint of e-commerce has long been the subject of intense debate, with the reduction in retail space and customer travel set against the increase in emissions from delivery fleets and reams of additional packaging. indirect jobs in fulfilment and delivery.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

Earlier this week we ran a great piece from Andrew Warren , which explored how the UK's energy efficiency strategy may remain badly underpowered in many ways, but it is quietly ratcheting up the regulatory pressure on house builders, landlords, and property owners to tackle the inefficiency of their buildings.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The plan details how the new Environmental Land Management programme, which incentivises farmers to adopt nature-friendly practices, should lead to the restoration of 400 miles of river in its first round, as well as 3,000 hectares of new woodlands along England's rivers. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the main reaction to the new plan.

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