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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. Irwin looks back on 2020 with "somewhat rose-tinted glasses" because it has proven the need to take the relationship between nature and society seriously. Reframe as vulnerability.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

GreenBiz

This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Hence, Covalent’s ability to make a carbon-negative claim. .

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Why batteries can and should have 'passports' soon

Business Green

‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World' was the theme of Davos 2020 - and, as far as the global batteries sector is concerned, there is a sense of urgency to meet that expectation. Consider the Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative. Innovation is central to this transition.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:30. After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni. Heather Clancy.

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The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.

Charged

The emergence of non-utility market participants is being enabled by four forces that have begun to converge: advances in information and communications technologies; the movement towards sharing economies; new business models and ownership models; and blockchain-encrypted transaction systems. A diverse range of business models is available.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

Business Green

Covalent reveals how Blockchain technology is offering a consumers a peek at its environmental footprint. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda's project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain - and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year.