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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Sustainability certifications are becoming increasingly important for businesses as global leaders, industry experts and the public are taking climate action. Green building certifications. These standards are constantly revised to reflect changing global priorities and regulations. Product certifications and eco-labels.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals. Elsa Wenzel.

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Texas Border Town Demands Stronger Action to Tackle Cancer-Causing Chemical Pollution

DeSmogBlog

For Edna Ibarra, it was the realization that with every breath her 11-year-old son was breathing in a little more of an industrial carcinogen that drove her to get involved in the fight against air pollution in Laredo, Texas. A report published last week highlighted the role that chemical plants play in driving climate change.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. As the World Resources Institute points out, "land is critically important - both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a climate change solution". Consequently, the level of species extinction is truly alarming.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum. The oil and gas industry produces an extraordinary amount of waste. Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2021.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. But such rapid industrial and economic growth has come at a price.