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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. Heather Clancy.

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Landfill and recycling both down, and incineration on the up: Scotland waste summary 2020 published

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million tonnes of CO2 equivalent from 2011. achieved in 2011. The amount of Scottish household waste landfilled in 2020 was 660,000 tonnes, a reduction of 98,000 tonnes (13.0%) from 2019, and a reduction 794,000 tonnes (54.6%) from 2011. million TCO2e since 2011. Household waste generated increased 0.3% million tonnes.

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Firm secures three-year stack emissions contract extension with SEPA

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This work is covered by regulations including the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Pollution and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012, and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 2011. I look forward to working together again over the duration of our new contract.”.

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

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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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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

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By creating the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a framework is in place for organizations to better understand and report on these risks. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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Ocean-dumping for Fukushima wastewater: Japan’s complex decision remains contentious

Envirotec Magazine

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector

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leadership in sustainable finance and business through collaboration with the fast-growing network of businesses and organizations promoting such goals. Today, 90 percent of S&P 500 companies publish sustainability reports, up from 20 percent in 2011.