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State of the Circular Workplace 2023: A Green Standards Report

GreenBiz

This report is a snapshot of where we are now, a summary of what we need to do, and a call to action for workplaces around the world. Turning our linear “take-make-waste” economy into a regenerative loop that designs out waste and keeps resources in use is a huge undertaking.

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Q&A: Drivers point to growth in Africa’s industrial water market

Envirotec Magazine

The challenge we see in Africa is on two fronts – of course the UN’s sustainable development goal 6 (SDG6) around proving sanitation and clean water to populations, but what is sometimes missed is significance of the industrial sector. What are the main challenges for the water market in Africa? What kinds of solutions are in demand?

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Sustainable Agriculture Programs Driving Carbon Markets

GreenBiz

The pilot programs, working directly with growers, revealed challenges and opportunities in a complex web of where we are at and where we need to get to. The path forward isn’t paved, it’s cultivated in collaboration, innovation and investment.

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Innovation at the Intersection: Where the Human-Built and Natural Worlds Meet, featuring John Warner

GreenBiz

Where do we start? The intersection of use and reuse with our stable ecosystems provides a working definition of sustainability. In order for humans to survive, thrive and protect the planet, we’ll have to find a way to innovate with nature, not against it.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers.

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Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals

GreenBiz

I am thinking especially of global poverty, hunger, health and education — SDGs 1 through 4 — where the latest figures from the World Bank and other centers of analysis paint a bleak picture of years lost and lives threatened. The SDGs are treated as an interlinked system of goals because that is how the world actually works.

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Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'

GreenBiz

I think for depending on where you see it, it kind of reflects the way that the company might focus on the issue. The environmental and, of course, the social are hugely important to us but we really start from the perspective of how can we design policy and reporting to maximize our result.