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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Beyond personal.

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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

Business Green

So-called nature-based solutions to climate change - harnessing trees, soils, and seagrass to such up carbon - are very much in vogue at the moment, and are increasingly being looked at by companies seeking to offset their own emissions while boosting biodiversity. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.