GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Each firm received an overall letter grade reflecting its contribution to the climate problem based on the data in these three categories. Fifty-five financial institutions including Bank Sarasin, Amalgamated Bank and Standard Chartered are backing the new certification and already have committed to setting science-based targets.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

"There’s this really marked intention-action gap when we’re asking people to change their behaviors to be more sustainable," said Katherine White, professor of marketing and behavioral science at the University of British Columbia. White shared her research on sustainable consumption during GreenBiz 21.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences argues that a human expedition on the surface of the Red Planet could be powered by harvesting solar energy. Beyond science and technology, Abel said it is important to consider the human element of space exploration as well. “To The concept is not new.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Tobacco giant pledges to bring its existing sustainability commitments in line with climate science, as it signs up to the Race to Zero campaign. The UN backed Race to Zero campaign works with the Science Based Targets initiative's Business Ambition for 1.5C We are proud, therefore, to support the Race to Zero campaign.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the UK this category includes the grey squirrel, European rabbit and Japanese knotweed. The study was first authored by Dr Ross Cuthbert, Research Associate from the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. Apeel's coating is being used in dozens of produce categories. Apeel Sciences. Cumulatively speaking, Apeel has raised $360 million, including the new funding. Sponsored Article.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2022

To expand on these definitions, we’ve produced a series of articles, with each piece covering a specific corporate emissions category. For more information on the GHG Protocol’s emission scope categories, read the following articles : GHG Protocol: Scope 1 Emissions Explained. The 15 categories of business scope 3 GHG emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Bars in graphs can be clicked to view resources that align with a particular category. Here is an AASHE summary of 2860 sustainability focused academic programs comprising 672 organizations in 27 countries including 52 U.S. States and Territories 9 Canadian provinces. Click here to access the summary.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This shift in the world of business created a new category — Climate Technology, or simply ClimateTech — made up of business solutions whose offerings are designed to help work against climate change. The new industry could mean big benefits for businesses that pay attention to these trends and work to take advantage of the new category.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They found that by far the biggest factor was work on research and development, particularly in chemistry and materials science. This outweighed the gains achieved through economies of scale, though that turned out to be the second-largest category of reductions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This includes 13 hurricanes (twice the normal number) with six of them rated as Category 3 or higher (also twice the normal average). Attribution science is making it increasingly possible to directly link storms and hurricanes to climate change. The storm season is starting earlier and generating more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This includes 13 hurricanes (twice the normal number) with six of them rated as Category 3 or higher (also twice the normal average). Attribution science is making it increasingly possible to directly link storms and hurricanes to climate change. The storm season is starting earlier and generating more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.

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Michael Grossman

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Science Alone Won't Close The Sale. This is not to say your science and engineering don’t matter. They were an entirely different category and marketed as such. Circling back to the headline of this post, "better" is an objective term in the world of science. What’s A Climate-Tech Company To Do? Of course, it does.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s foremost conservation authority, with universally recognised extinction risk categories (e.g. Endangered, Critically Endangered, etc.) The research involved an international team from the USA, Canada, Japan and the UK.

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Bidgely

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Learn how AI-powered TOU disaggregation science provides utilities with more precise customer energy usage insights than any other analytics approach before, delivering value and operational efficiencies across the enterprise. The Data Science Behind TOU Disaggregation. Download the Whitepaper. It is a helpful but insufficient metric.

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Bidgely

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Learn how AI-powered TOU disaggregation science provides utilities with more precise customer energy usage insights than any other analytics approach before, delivering value and operational efficiencies across the enterprise. The Data Science Behind TOU Disaggregation. Download the Whitepaper. It is a helpful but insufficient metric.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s one of the few categories that still drives shoppers to buy in-store. Hwy Haul has reduced empty mileage by 80 percent compared to industry standards by using data science, AI and algorithms, Aman said. . Former Walmart exec brings ride-share technology to fresh produce transport. Jesse Klein. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 01:00.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

New trials have been undertaken by independent institutions, using a next generation PFAS adsorbent media developed by Puraffinity, the London based science materials company. GenX chemicals are found in products such as food packaging, clothes and firefighting foam and a 2020 study identified them across 200 different use categories.

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Bidgely

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AI’s Evolution, And Bidgely’s Place in It The dawn of the science of AI can be traced back to the 1940s, and it has been steadily evolving for nearly 70 years. It was only when big data began to emerge in the early 2000s that the science of AI could, for the first time, be broadly applied to optimize business operations across industries.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Helix Earth Technologies received a Phase I SBIR Grant for $275K from the National Science Foundation for its energy-efficient air-conditioning tech. GenH ’s co-founder Siddarth Pannir won the Cade Prize in the Energy category for the startup’s Adaptive Hydro technology that works to electrify non-powered dams.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. It offers Masters of Science and Masters of Arts in Global Sustainability. UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Accordingly, the Business for Social Responsibility uses a matrix to define effective environmental communication using four separate categories. These categories give us an idea of how the severity of greenwash can differ, how greenwash isn’t always intentionally deceitful, and how effective environmental communication can be defined.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

In a post EU era, we now have the freedom to move towards a system that focuses on nature’s recovery as well as its preservation, and which places more emphasis on science and less emphasis on legal process. Environment Secretary George Eustice said the proposed targets are “intended to set a clear, long-term plan for nature’s recovery.”. “In

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Science is always a casualty of intuition and bias. According to the Yale report , Americans can be placed into six categories when factoring for their opinions about climate change. A majority (54%) of Americans are Alarmed or Concerned today, with a small minority (18%) falling into the Doubtful or Dismissive categories.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

9T Labs innovates solutions for today’s wasteful and inefficient production processes for high-performance parts, enabling a new category of sustainable metal substitution across mobility, medical, and recreational applications. Manufacturing.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. It offers Masters of Science and Masters of Arts in Global Sustainability. UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

ICVCM said the new Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) have been developed using input from hundreds of organisations throughout the voluntary carbon market and will set out fundamental principles for high-quality credits which deliver real, verifiable emissions reductions based on the latest science and best practices.

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Climate-KIC

APRIL 15, 2018

Electronics is one of the fastest growing categories in the municipal solid waste stream, which is especially […]. The post Artist makes dazzling science fiction landscapes using 1.8 Benjamin Von Wong is a conceptual artist who created a photo series using over 1.8 In 2014, about 41.8

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2020

Yet just one in ten firms listed climate risk assessments as a priority, according to new survey results published today by earth science AI firm. He added that it was "exciting to be pioneers of Multiresolution Multitask Learning Modelling" alongside the UK's national institute for data science and aritificial intelligence. "We

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

National Academy of Sciences found evidence of racial bias in the investment decisions of asset allocators, including rating white-led funds more favorably than Black-led funds at similar strong performance levels. And as is the case with many axes of power, financial professionals across asset classes are disproportionately male and white.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This is the first in a series of posts on our investment themes, which will be followed by deeper dives into each of the three categories below. Several of our existing portfolio companies are mentioned, and we’re looking to add more in each of these categories as we get to work on Fund IV.

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Better Ventures

AUGUST 20, 2020

Perhaps no category is better served by telemedicine than behavioral health. The first movers in behavioral telemedicine have done well, and the category is maturing. These two founders are unparalleled in their qualifications to tackle the exciting and profoundly meaningful category of sleep. Prairie Health?—?Precision

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2021

Approaches include assessing the portfolio, sector and economy-wide impacts of investing, addressing the SDGs, assessing impacts relative to planetary limits and science-based targets, investing in ecosystem restoration, and addressing poverty, gender equality and other social issues. There are many ways to do SCI.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Sorex Sensors is a finalist in two categories of the 2019 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards , to be announced on 30 October. The development kit can be simply plugged into a laptop to reveal the particles collected by the sensor as part of the product development process.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Sorex Sensors is a finalist in two categories of the 2019 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards , to be announced on 30 October. The development kit can be simply plugged into a laptop to reveal the particles collected by the sensor as part of the product development process.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The categories, however, seem to be a mere formality because, “once you’re in the taxonomy, you’re classified as sustainable regardless of what category you’re put into,” Eviston said. This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Using a rigorous, science-based approach, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact wherever possible.”. SCS found that the main source category of GHGs for Planet is Scope 3 ( Purchased Goods and Services, Business Travel ) and Scope 2 ( Purchased Electricity ). “We

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