Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Instead, businesses must set ambitious time-limited targets.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Selecting the right sustainability certification for your business can be a tedious process requiring thorough research and understanding which program will best suit your needs and budget. General business sustainability certifications. GENERAL BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS. OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

ISO 14001 certification to run an effective environmental management system ISO 14001 certification is designed to help businesses run an effective environmental management system (EMS), to reduce an entity’s impact on our natural world via operating more sustainably.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Both S&P Global Ratings and Bloomberg rank biodiversity among the top ESG themes for 2021, the latter naming Fidelity International and AXA Investment Managers as examples of firms that have made it a priority. Subscribe here.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your business needs a lot of stuff in order to run – paper, ink, computers, coffee, toilet paper, lightbulbs and the list goes on. But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. The office, the place where hard work happens and great ideas are born.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

All of them are using their artificial intelligence prowess and analytics power to help companies such as BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil continue exploration and extraction. When I asked Microsoft chief environmental officer Lucas Joppa about this tension last year, he told me that changes won't happen overnight.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

It might, for example, buy carbon offsets to kickstart action in the short term without delay, then move on to supporting initiatives that directly affect its operations, such as installing new technologies for energy efficiency or clean energy. How might Absolute Zero apply to your own strategy?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A properly functioning carbon price covering a large number of countries would send clear signals across global supply chains and help address the distributional impacts of the energy transition. license ).

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense. Customers and employees are also demanding business with a purpose. As such, we’re seeing an ideological shift in the business realm where responsibility goes beyond the profit line. Yet, it’s not just investors driving ESG responsibility.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2020

All of them are using their artificial intelligence prowess and analytics power to help companies such as BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil continue exploration and extraction. These complex challenges can’t be solved in isolation, or by doing business as usual. “We will be relying on fossil fuels for some time.”

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We have globally seen a record breaking fire season in 2023, and from Canada to California, Planet data has been leveraged to monitor and prepare for these fires, helping protect civilians and conserve natural resources. Over the years, our data has also provided critical insights for managing and mitigating bushfires in Australia.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Those projects are both managed under Mercado Libre's Regenera America program, which aims to restore key ecosystems throughout the region as part of its climate action strategy, using technology from climate-tech startup Pachama to monitor and verify the progress of this work. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECYCLED STEEL. BIO-BASED AND RECYCLED INSULATION.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Meanwhile, building decarbonisation and energy efficiency should already be on the agenda of the 900 corporate occupiers with a net zero science-based climate target. This ensures a 'north star' to the mission and expansion of JLL's Energy & Sustainability Services business, broadening and deepening our expertise.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out how countries can "pursue voluntary cooperation" to reach their climate targets. Biodiversity. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. But they help reduce economy-wide total emissions. Black carbon.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

One declared use for this latest infusion of money is acquisition targets, which isn’t surprising given the anticipated boom in commercial drone usage: One forecast provides revenue related just to ag drones will reach about $5.9 ” There are many commercial drone companies, of course.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The buildup of dust can weaken HVAC system efficiency, causing it to work harder and use more energy to heat or cool your home. According to the Department of Energy, replacing a clogged air filter with a clean one can lower your HVAC system’s energy consumption by 5% – 15%. Check for HVAC Leaks.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The price of water - essential for human life, nature, communities and businesses - is often subsidised , reflecting a commonly held belief that everyone should have abundant access to clean water. That makes it difficult for companies to fully evaluate and account for the business risk of supplies drying up as a result of climate change.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The destruction of rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations is a major contributor to climate change and nature loss, due to the crucial role of richly biodiverse tropical forests in sequestering carbon dioxide, absorbing rainfall and releasing water into rivers.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

In an article published today in The Times , Johnson set out his priorities for the Summit, declaring his intention to relaunch the G7 "as a means of expressing the values that unite us: openness, freedom, democracy and free trade". I am committed to supporting Cornwall's ambition to be the first Net Zero region of the UK," Johnson said. "I

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

This is because water quality is heavily affected by the state of the tide, which presents a significant monitoring challenge in the lower reaches of many rivers. With a tidal range of up to 7m, the River Thames presents a number of monitoring challenges.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

Those projects are both managed under Mercado Libre’s Renera America program, which aims to restore key ecosystems throughout the region as part of its climate action strategy, using technology from climate-tech startup Pachama to monitor and verify the progress of this work.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Solar Energy UK raps PM candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss for suggesting large solar farms pose risk to UK food security. This directly helps sustain UK crop production," Solar UK said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

However, the European Commission has estimated that achieving the current 2030 climate and energy targets will require €260bn of additional annual investment, equal to about 1.5 An increasing number of them are taking the step to offset the carbon emissions of their business activities. Standard Life Aberdeen is one such business.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Discussions around the framework of Article 6 are under strain at COP27 - and concerns are mounting the outcome could further undermine the credibility of voluntary carbon markets.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

Ugbaad Kozar, senior policy advisor at Carbon180, discussed these disparities and the power imbalance associated with carbon removal measures. REDD+ social safeguards have had mixed results ; the impact of the safeguards sometimes have been difficult to monitor and interventions made based on the safeguards had mixed results, she noted.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. A growing number of businesses, governments and civil society organizations are coming together to drive the change through the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). We would need 1.5

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, the LWA’s Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator Rebecca Laughton explains why we have to produce and trade a greater percentage of food locally. While this contributes to soil fertility, it represents a waste of water, agrochemicals and energy used in production.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

It might, for example, buy carbon offsets to kickstart action in the short term without delay, then move on to supporting initiatives that directly affect its operations, such as installing new technologies for energy efficiency or clean energy. How might Absolute Zero apply to your own strategy?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation Jonathan Cook Wed, 06/17/2020 – 00:30 This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. Countries around the world can harness the power of nature to adapt to climate impacts. They also provide critical habitat for biodiversity.

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