Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A green wave is currently surging through the business world in full force, and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon. This article outlines 20 sustainable business practices your company can implement to make your offices more sustainable (ordered from low cost, high impact to high cost, low impact). Switch All Lighting to LEDs.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales. During this pandemic, at-home shoppers are deluged with purchases arriving by cardboard box, each delivered by polluting trucks. More trucks are making more trips, hurting the planet, and our health.”.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

A coalition of European business leaders, politicians, NGOs, trade unions, and academics has today joined a growing chorus of voices across the continent calling on the EU to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic through an unprecedented green investment programme.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

For us, mental health is equally important if we are to enjoy this improving world and the leisure industry has a key role to play in a more sustainable economy - helping people relax and enjoy a more fulfilling life. First let's look at Spotify. Investing in the music revolution.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Because of the pandemic, CEOs and other high-level executives are being pulled into technical and specific conversations about a subject many previously never thought twice about: cleaning. I don't think that a real estate CEO was ever involved in a decision-making conversation about the cleaning side of the business. "I

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Defend Our Future

APRIL 15, 2020

For so many whose lives have been upended by the Coronavirus pandemic, the last thing they might be thinking is how we can make a difference in the face of the climate crisis. They work because our leaders are accountable to their constituents, so if enough of us make noise on an issue, we can get our priorities addressed.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic rightly occupying our minds, you may have missed the recent report that revealed the UK has just experienced the driest May on record and in June the temperature in the Arctic Circle hit a record 38 degrees Celsius. Similarly, the Covid-19 crisis has exposed and worsened the inequalities that exist in our city.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. The ROI Of Sustainability in Business. The Financial Risk of Not Being Sustainable. The Business Case for Sustainability Programs.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

The current pandemic crisis offers a chance to reimagine our approaches to managing natural resources, argues Martin Noponen of the Rainforest Alliance. For instance, many of the world's biggest brands are set to fail to meet their 2020 deforestation commitments, despite making clear their ambition for sustainable supply chains.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

A host of academics, campaigners, and politicians have warned rules to combat plastic pollution risk being watered down or delayed in response to the coronavirus crisis, as they urged governments to avoid kowtowing to an "ill-founded faith in plastic as a weapon" against the pandemic.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And now, at precisely the moment when a shift away from the private car has never been more crucial, the pandemic has delivered a devastating blow to the rail and bus sectors as people have understandably shunned public transport in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

How technology will enable a new wave of startup companies to make tele-behavioral health better than in-person therapy There’s an old story in technology circles about how at the dawn of television, people didn’t know what to do with it, so they basically put a radio show on television. And so it is with tele-behavioral health?—?you

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

What she feels about the respect shown to her efforts in the pandemic, by the government… I'd probably better not share with you. The Labour leader today set out his pitch to farmers, promising to push forward with green subsidy reforms but ensure they work for the farming industry Thank you, Minette, and thank you Conference.

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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

MARCH 20, 2020

Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world. For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. Indeed, climate change could make the coronavirus seem like the good old days. Good old days?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Last autumn, Johnson's dominance of British politics seemed unimpeachable. Boris Johnson's premiership has ended in failure, the opportunity to shape a new era of climate action squandered by a fundamental lack of seriousness. It was on the evening of November 2nd, that hubris met nemesis.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

Moreover, the projections for the sector remain remarkably bullish, as costs become ever more competitive and numerous governments make offshore wind a central component of their economic recovery plans. All around the world industries are vying position themselves as key pillars of the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

It is an existential threat for us and violates our fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples,” said Nemo Andy Guiquita , a Waorani Indigenous leader and Women and Health Coordinator for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, or Confeniae. climate talks in Glasgow late last year.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Green Alliance's Philippa Borrowman makes the case for urgent action to ensure one of the few upsides from the lockdown is maintained. So can we keep these positive effects after the pandemic calms down? How can cities in the UK ensure the air we breathe is safer in future than it has been over the last few decades?

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But the key is the microgrid controller which makes all of the pieces work together. Don’t have a pandemic (watch your supply chain). Speakers offered lessons learned building microgrids. What defines a microgrid is its ability to island from the main grid to provide energy during an outage. The Projects.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

Environment Secretary George Eustice's speech at Green Alliance event setting out his vision for a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The impacts of this pandemic will be felt deeply for many years, but the experience has also led people to appreciate the difference that nature makes to our lives in a new way.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

As the pandemic has killed half a million Americans, too often "essential" workers have felt expendable. Facing far less risk, people with the luxury of working from home nevertheless have faced new stressors on their mental health, including blurred work-life boundaries, social isolation and ceaseless caregiving. Elsa Wenzel.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Given the huge pressures the UK has faced from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, and the swathes of critical climate policy that has been promised and repeatedly delayed by the government, it will come as little surprise to many in the green economy that the lack of climate policy progress is a major cause for concern for the CCC.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But let's be frank: our efforts continue to fall well short of what's needed. The pandemic has also created huge dynamism in all of the systems we rely on. As 2021 draws to a close, examining lessons from the past will be critical in helping us to transform the future, writes Forum for the Future’s CEO Dr Sally Uren. December 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

A growing body of evidence argues personal mental health is deeply connected to wider policy failures – could embedding mindfulness teaching into society improve our responses? Things are tough out there at the moment, aren't they? And, as we are fast realising, the two issues are of course inextricably linked.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

New Year is a disorientating time of year, even without the backdrop of a still-rolling global health crisis. Last week the climate scientist Glen Peters published some predictions on Twitter , which he would love to see proved wrong. Don't look up, indeed. per cent increase in emissions this year. That is a big drop." Peters wrote.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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. Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele speak to BusinessGreen on the eve of the Glasgow Climate Summit.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The upshot of the government's 2008 bailouts for the banking sector were that the banks stayed in good shape whilst the rest suffered years of austerity, impoverishing social care and our national health system," Evans said. "The As government confirms loan for ailing airline, campaigners step up calls for governments to.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic can be claimed to be under control, it is likely to have made some economies retreat a decade and left millions of families in pain for the loss of loved ones, with many more millions enduring health and other consequences for some time to come. Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:00. The failures. The root causes.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Stories of small farms pivoting their operations on a dime were easy to find in the early months of the pandemic: these farmers worked overtime to meet customer demand, added services such as online ordering and home delivery, and jumped into action to prop up community food banks struggling to serve an influx of the newly unemployed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Banks often provide finance and financial services to companies along these supply chains, indirectly contributing to deforestation and land-use change, which make up the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after the burning of fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s mission is to encourage people to enjoy the many benefits of the outdoors, while lobbying for wildlife protection, clean energy, health and safety and environmental preservation. Spotlighting on these issues, the Sierra Club ranked the green aspects of 328 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

As of late May, smack in the middle of the pandemic, these numbers dropped dramatically, down to 2013 levels at 33 percent and 19 percent respectively. Worries about the health of the economy and human health far outweigh concerns about the environment right now. This was not the case pre-pandemic.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Indeed, there is growing awareness across the business and finance sectors of their role as the financiers of a nature positive economy, given public budgets are already straining in the wake of the global economic downturn and fallout from the pandemic. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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