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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

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Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040.

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Hospitals Are Investing Billions of Dollars in Fossil Fuels, Report Reveals

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Major hospital systems and medical institutions in the United States are betraying their oath to “first do no harm” through their investments in the fossil fuel sector, warns a new report from a campaign advocating for fossil fuel divestment in healthcare. private hospital systems.

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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector

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His ability to achieve his agenda will require action from key sectors across the country, including the investment and business community. leadership in sustainable finance and business through collaboration with the fast-growing network of businesses and organizations promoting such goals. We agree that this shift is overdue.

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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15. Pull Quote.

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4 ways businesses can connect with their communities to create a clean economy

GreenBiz

PUSH Buffalo is a nonprofit grassroots community organization working to build and execute a comprehensive revitalization plan for West Buffalo’s West Side. UPROSE is Brooklyn's foremost Latinx community organization. Panelists explained how their community organizations and business partners have successfully collaborated in the past.

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Online Event - Reevaluating Philanthropy and Impact Investing

Green Market Oracle

Reevaluating Philanthropy and Impact Investing is an online event that will take place on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM (EDT). Like most aspects of society, impact investing and philanthropy have been profoundly unsettled by the coronavirus pandemic, requiring urgent responses and reevaluations of missions and priorities.

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The electronic waste collection conundrum

GreenBiz

Stokes founded her first electronics recycling organization in 2011 as a social purpose corporation and later sold Homeboy Industries. We believe that now is the opportune time for manufacturers to invest more aggressively in infrastructure to support these types of programs," the Morgan Stanley analysis notes.

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