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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Sustainable Skiing Guide: 5 Tips for Eco Friendly Ski Resorts

Green Business Bureau

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete. The benefits of sustainability for ski resorts.

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Lessons from Denmark: How the agriculture sector can produce more food on less land

Business Green

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. This carbon sequestration potential would cover the majority of the projected 4.4

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Myisha Majumder.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Still, UN evidence shows the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 — one in every nine people — according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. His startup has just created Panorama, an open-source software to map out Sweden’s path to a carbon-neutral future.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.