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Creators of underwater, eco-friendly concrete are finalists in the European Inventor Award

Envirotec Magazine

Launched by the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) in 2006, it honours individuals and teams behind solutions tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times. When these sessile organisms settle on the concrete and encapsulate it with calcium carbonate they actually make it stronger.

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ESG Reporting: What Is ESG Reporting and Why Is It Important?

Green Business Bureau

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution. trillion in AUM.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Matt Poore, a professor of animal science at North Carolina State University, chairs the Alliance for Grassland Renewal, a national organization dedicated to eradicating toxic fescue. The southeastern U.S.,

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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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ESG Reporting: Standards, Frameworks, Challenges and Benefits

Green Business Bureau

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. ESG Benefits.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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