Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article provides a useful overview of the SDGs and is the first in a series of articles on how companies can align their own values and practices with the SDGs. The SDGs are a roadmap to collective action and creating partnerships between governments, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and academia.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 20, 2021

This article includes some best practices and tips to avoid greenwashing and most accurately convey your sustainability commitments and achievements. . Learn more about how to create a Green Team in GBB’s blog article: Creating a Green Team, Executive Guide to Becoming a Sustainable Business. Trendy to be Sustainable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

The first set of NDCs in many cases had no realistic, or, prioritized costing and budgeting," reads a July 2020 report from the Finance Ministers for Climate Action, a coalition of over 50 countries. Yet even if you take the class of 2015 UN plans as rough endeavours, they pack a collective punch. Trillion dollar opportunity.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

Ultimately, this kind of novel collaboration paves the way for global initiatives that make the impossible possible in the public sector. Case in point: sustainability. To drive circular economy processes, public and private actors need to convene around an ecosystem to collaborate, transact and create a closed-loop system.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. I'd never heard of him, though.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

In looking at these failures, we can see history about to repeat itself: Government action has been soft and late at best; many governments feel they face a terrible choice: save lives or save the economy. What about enabling global, collective action? The good news is that, if we overcome No. 1, we can then overcome No.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Both publicly and privately, governments made clear their recession hit economies were not about to drastically increase climate aid payments. Second, if governments are going to start to pay for Loss and Damage the case for bolstering climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries has become more compelling still.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

And because many of these firms are part of the supply chains — or customer base — of their much larger corporate brethren, there's a role for bigger firms to help smaller ones reduce their individual and collective footprint. And then to move from that ambition-setting piece to the action to deliver on that commitment."

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Delivering those contributions will require bold and urgent action — nothing less than transforming important sectors of the global economy, especially when it comes to how we generate power and move people and goods. Today, I would like to provide an overview of what Treasury intends to do — and, in some cases, is already doing.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

And because many of these firms are part of the supply chains — or customer base — of their much larger corporate brethren, there's a role for bigger firms to help smaller ones reduce their individual and collective footprint. And then to move from that ambition-setting piece to the action to deliver on that commitment."

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK government’s Hydrogen Strategy , launched in August, promises to develop a “thriving low carbon hydrogen sector” as a “key plank” of its climate plans, and the fuel was given pride of place at a “Hydrogen Transition Summit” hosted in Glasgow during the recent UN climate talks.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Nothing in the US report changes my view (but reality on the ground -- including the destruction of an entire town in California from wildfires -- has made the case even clearer). It's long past time for companies to go very big on climate action.). This week brought some sobering news on the near future of our planet and species.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. We also considered the role of young leaders from the private and public sectors in this essential transformation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Countries will need to develop national action plans, to improve their waste management practices such that they move up the waste management hierarchy and introduce policies to incentivise investments in the recycling infrastructure. For example, the existing waste collection infrastructure is inadequate and inconsistent at best.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Industry Voice: Dow's sustainability director Jihane Ball argues the case for a flexible and ambitious UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution worldwide I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In some cases, that means substituting them with new, less-problematic ones. In some cases, they are the only thing standing between their families and starvation. Above ground, children sort the mica flakes from the rock and transport them to makeshift collection facilities, some of them in abandoned mines. Enter Beautycounter.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Certifications can be issued by government agencies, non-profits or private companies. For businesses in the financial sector (i.e.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

This article covers a breakdown of types of careers, job titles, roles and responsibilities for both part-time or full-time positions related to sustainable business. There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

COP26 is showcasing private-sector solutions at a time when policymakers are at loggerheads. And while we don't yet know where the negotiators will end up on a host of critical issues — and whether they'll collectively step up to what's needed — it's been fascinating to watch the business side of the equation.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This is discussed in more detail at the end of this article. The Case For Green Certification White Paper Get your copy of Green Business Bureau’s in-depth look at the opportunities, benefits, market trends and business case available to greener businesses. Use the links below to navigate through this guide: What is B Corp?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

This article covers a breakdown of types of careers, job titles, roles and responsibilities for both part-time or full-time positions related to sustainable business. There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 22, 2020

Greg has been an analyst and entrepreneur in the public / private sector for over 25 years primarily focused on community building and education in the energy and sustainability sectors. These actions will help our healthcare system by slowing the spread of the virus. The US will surpass all other countries in cases.

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AutoGrid

APRIL 26, 2023

Given the nascent status of the EV industry – especially from a grid resource perspective – the quality of data tracking is vital to understanding new use cases for both hardware and software (and related business models.) Direct EV Telematics The other route to go is to collect telematics data directly from the EV itself.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

In looking at these failures, we can see history about to repeat itself: Government action has been soft and late at best; many governments feel they face a terrible choice: save lives or save the economy. What about enabling global, collective action? The good news is that, if we overcome No. 1, we can then overcome No.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

While best known for the tractors and rugged 4&4s sold by its automotive arm, the group in fact incorporates more than 150 companies, with firms operating in nearly two dozen disparate sectors, from steelmaking and farm equipment to real estate, electric mobility, hospitality, renewable energy, and ICT.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 28, 2022

In some cases, especially large public companies, they are looking for a detailed report describing your commitments, detailed accomplishments and carbon footprint. According to this GreenBiz article on the state of corporate sustainability reporting , we’re not likely to have one single reporting framework that everyone uses anytime soon.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

For instance, both public and private clients are seeking legal counsel with responsible environmental and social practices. Hence, the business case for law firm sustainability is compelling. Hence, the business case for law firm sustainability is compelling. Sustainability challenges in the legal industry.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 12, 2022

If you read our previous article “ What is ESG Reporting and Why Is It Important? ”, you’d know that ESG and sustainability investments are on the rise, with ESG-linked loans quadrupling in Europe from ~$28.5 Plus, a recent research report by PwC states that ESG funds will make up between 27-42% of Europe’s private market assets by 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

In it, Pinker makes the case for reason, science and humanism, arguing these principles are leading to significant increases in human health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world. But likewise, we can't halt the loss of nature or biodiversity without further ambitious climate action.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The private sector is massively important in the present moment, given its capacity to either "hugely accelerate change, or create massive inertia", he emphasises. Targets drive internal action but targets are also a tool for creating more ambition and an ambition loop dynamic where you can raise the floor for everybody," he explains.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

There's a business case, it's in our DNA. If you pick up a box of our tea and there are 16 different ingredients on it, those ingredients in many cases will have come from 16 different countries and countless different villages and communities around the world.". Originally, we did these things because it was the right thing to do.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 26, 2023

There are a few different Anti-ESG movements (I’m writing an article about that now). So…THIS article is primarily about fighting intolerance and bigotry. Couching their actions as part of an “anti-woke movement,” a few states pulled funds from high-profile ESG advocates such as the world’s largest asset owner, BlackRock.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

There’s a business case, it’s in our DNA. “If you pick up a box of our tea and there are 16 different ingredients on it, those ingredients in many cases will have come from 16 different countries and countless different villages and communities around the world.” But now the reasons are endless, right?

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Since I’ve been involved in the mutual credit world, I’ve been reading various ‘history of money’ texts, and so I thought I’d organise the notes I’ve taken into a blog article. Farmers put their grain in collective granaries for safe storage, and got receipts for the amount of grain they’d delivered.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters?

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The video and anecdote raised a smile at a time when the world is facing its biggest collective health and economic crisis since at least the end of the Second World War. We have a framework for action - the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. But that's not the case. Peace signs.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

My biggest article of the year is generally the last one; it’s an attempt to synthesize and summarize big themes in sustainability. Supreme Court Dobbs case, which overturned Roe v. Like with the Russia situation, a public list of corporate actions to support abortion rights was published. [Happy New Year all!

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