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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Elsa Wenzel.

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Decade of delivery: How can businesses help keep 1.5C alive at COP26?

Business Green

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C It is hard to fault the UN for naming the 2020s the 'decade of action'. warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. threshold set out in the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix

AGreenLiving

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. The streaming media giant just started reporting on its renewable energy usage last winter. The former U.K.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. That's why [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.". Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'. Cecilia Keating.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. Progress on SDG 15 is decidedly mixed.