DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP used these strategies in opposition to shareholder climate and transition-related proposals between 2006 and 2022 to successfully minimize the impact of climate-related and environmental shareholder activism. Most of the proposals proved unsuccessful in the face of these strategies.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It establishes three pillars of sustainable corporate development: ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY : Companies can improve their environmental sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint, reducing waste and wasteful practices, eliminating plastics and pollution. LEED is an excellent certification provider for your buildings, but that’s it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Finley, who is based in Dorset, UK, but has been the Cook Islands’ ambassador to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2006, has been praised for his contributions to the agency by its Secretary-General.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The CW BCM program offers a 20% discount towards green business certification, providing the financial support for sustainable development in business, and helping organizations get certified for their efforts. The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21). Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

Between 2006 and 2013, China’s global share of production of PV cells, the solar industry’s core technology, surged from 14 percent to 66 percent. He is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and currently serves as its Chair of Global Diplomacy and Public Policy Network.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 19, 2019

Green Bank : The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines it as “a public, quasi-public or non-profit entity established specifically to facilitate private investment into domestic low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure.”. Here are the important takeaways: 1) The renewable energy industry is taking off.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. That’s not the same as saying that it’s not possible.” A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Senegal, for instance, banned imports of frozen chicken in 2006, making local production essential to KFC’s entrance into the country. Of the six companies DeSmog examined, four made arrangements with Yum after the banks announced their assistance. The suppliers that benefited from bank support have proven essential to Yum’s expansion.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution. And transparency is a tool to unlock capital and create solutions for the major global challenges organizations face today (e.g. climate change, equality, and data security).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Supporting these findings, the Harvard Business Review reports 99% of large company CEOs want to address sustainability issues as a must for the future success of their organization. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Between rainforest fires and ocean pollution, much of the news is grim. Since 2006, this village has been fighting stigma against the double X chromosome, leading to more than 350,000 trees planted so far. For folks who read — and write — about sustainability, dire projections are revealed every day.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

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. I use a nebulizer now.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization’s lofty statement has enduring impact. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Road run-off is another source – and vehicle tyres are a particular contributor to this pollution. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors. Sometimes organic material gets stuck inside the plastic, distorting the weight measurement. Is that an argument to do nothing?”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. Two mini-computer towers, back-up computer disks, and a briefcase were stolen, containing internal information regarding the organization’s work from the previous year.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. xii] [xiii]. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Anaerobic digesters – also known as “biodigesters” or “dairy digesters” – capture methane emissions from organic waste like manure to produce gas that’s burned for energy. At the last count, livestock production contributes 14.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 4, 2021

WNS is caused by a bacteria first discovered in the United States in 2006. Avoid pesticide use that suppresses insect populations as well as polluting the environment, food supply and human health. It is now responsible for millions of bat deaths as it spreads across the U.S. and Canada. There are other dangers too.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. In 1997, the federal government formed a hypoxia task force in an effort to stem the flow of fertilizer pollution.

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Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 140

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

A former management consultant — Eastman was one of his clients — and brandishing degrees from both Berkeley and Harvard, Costa joined the company in 2006 to lead strategy, marketing and business development before ascending to the corner office in 2014.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I Karen Dong is an organizer from Watchung, New Jersey and currently resides in New York.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. Organize a screening of Earth Day related films. George Bush came into the U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Henning is member of LAWASIA since 2006 and the Chairman of the Asian-European Subcommittee since 2016. Outset According to a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Organization in Geneva, there are 6.5 billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. Organize a screening of Earth Day related films. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, the 20 congressional signatories, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Years back, as an active surfer, she kept hearing stories of Imperial Beach residents suffering terrible maladies from swimming or surfing in polluted water: an ex-Navy SEAL who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria; a kid with an orbital eye-socket infection that threatened to pass into his brain.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

A former management consultant - Eastman was one of his clients - and brandishing degrees from both Berkeley and Harvard, Costa joined the company in 2006 to lead strategy, marketing and business development before ascending to the corner office in 2014.

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