GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

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. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I stand by this perspective, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interest and adoption of digital technologies across the water value chain. However, I wanted to share six new learnings from this pandemic year related to digital transformation along with other observations about the topic of water. . Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. . Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? . Sustainability must be a must have and not a nice to have.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Advice for thriving amid crisis, from 14 sustainability vets. A few months back (and forever ago), our professional colleagues in our Sustainability Veterans group expressed their thoughts on the most important attributes for advancing a sustainability career. But we never experienced anything like the coronavirus pandemic.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Federal Reserve asked it to help calm markets roiled by the pandemic economic crisis. As Greta Thunberg so pithily observed at #DigitalDavos, instead of corporate blather about " hypothetical targets and net-zero loopholes ," we need every cent going in a new direction as we crawl out of the pandemic economic crisis. Leadership.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. The Emerging Leaders program aims to foster a community of sustainability professionals that is diverse and representative of the world in which we live. Their creative thinking and perspective will help build more sustainable solutions for the future.".

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift. I am discovering a whole new respect for chief sustainability officers," I texted the facilitator of Leading the Sustainability Transformation. Corporate Strategy. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Shutterstock.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The long lag it takes to calculate this information today is untenable if countries and the corporate sector hope to act quickly, the group wrote in a blog about the initiative, co-authored by Gore and Gavin McCormick, founder and executive director of coalition member WattTime. To be clear, the data isn’t encouraging. I’ll leave it at that.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

These realizations — along with revelations about the fragility of the electronics supply chain exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and worries over future shortages of material such as glass, copper, gold and aluminum — are motivating a flurry of activity this year related to the circular economy for electronics. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. People, corporations and governments are seemingly taking action.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

As people across the United States and the world grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. The Covid-19 pandemic puts Imagine's efforts in the travel industry on hold. They might not have the skill.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Plus, the touted sustainability benefits to deriving seafood-like ingredients from plants include reducing the reliance on open-sea fishing and fish farming, not to mention sidestepping the labor abuses found in seafood supply chains. Following its tuna substitute, the company plans to release imitation shellfish and other fish next.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Consumers will no longer tolerate vague sustainability promises - companies must have the bravery to take ambitious actions, explains the Charities Aid Foundation's Janek Seevaratnam. There was an urgent need for companies to improve their sustainability long before Covid-19 arrived. Campaigning spirit and collective action.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Corporate philanthropy becomes a renewed focus for leadership companies Myisha Majumder Tue, 02/23/2021 – 00:05 In 2020, philanthropic donations by major donors saw an almost 7 percent increase on a year-to-date basis. For many, this includes weaving sustainability into their already established practices.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 30, 2021

GHG accounting is a corporate or organizational assessment that measures the direct and indirect carbon emissions that contribute to a company’s or entity’s carbon footprint. Carbon emissions calculations are important when considering the sustainability of any operation. Carbon Accounting Tools and Calculators.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause? If you were to believe the mainstream business media, there would be no question whatsoever that the twin crises of a pandemic and a recession have pretty much put the kibosh on sustainable business activity. The reality is that corporate sustainability is alive and well.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A shift is being quickened in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, a greater unveiling of racial injustice and the blazing West Coast skylines worsened by the climate crisis. asked Garry Cooper, CEO of Rheaply, a startup in asset efficiency software, during the recent VERGE 20 virtual event. Leadership. What is this systems change?"

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

Paul Polman: ‘Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail’ Deonna Anderson Wed, 07/22/2020 – 01:30 As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

As the pandemic has killed half a million Americans, too often "essential" workers have felt expendable. In that state, during the coronavirus's early U.S. Reith forwarded the message to corporate leaders and appealed to the state to direct resources toward improving safety practices, testing and vaccines for immigrant workers.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact Heather Clancy Mon, 10/12/2020 – 00:15 The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. But corporations need to think far more about the human impact of their business decisions.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is the first article in a series. While leadership reaffirmed the country’s lofty goals, the pace of renewable energy deployment in India slowed significantly in 2020. During the 2019/2020 fiscal year, the average coal-fired power plant ran just 55.5 With a few hours’ notice, all 1.3 Businesses closed.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. 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. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

This is a critical time for corporate sustainability. The mass climate protests of 2019 and subsequent outpouring of major corporate climate commitments from the likes of Amazon, IKEA and Kering, among others, seemed to indicate that 2020 would be the year of the E in ESG — when corporate climate action hit critical mass.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Here, in no particular order, are five storylines that I found encouraging during the 12 months just ending. Here, in no particular order, are five storylines that I found encouraging during the 12 months just ending. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.) Sustainable fashion became material.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science Mindy S. economy for years to come, it’s time for corporate America to stand up and be clear about the economy it wants and needs to prosper. Climate change is a systemic risk , and its impacts are felt across corporate America.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

We must approach our personal sustainability challenges as a problem with our ecosystem. I heard this parable last year, before the pandemic, from a fellow executive coach. Just as I did during my hectic career leading teams at the Los Angeles Times, Google and Apple. It’s a leadership challenge, and we are all leaders.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2020

” I stand by this perspective, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interest and adoption of digital technologies across the water value chain. However, I wanted to share six new learnings from this pandemic year related to digital transformation along with other observations about the topic of water.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

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. The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This interview is part of Greentown Labs’ Climatetech Leadership Series, which profiles C-level executives from our most committed and climate-oriented partners. — Emily Reichert Question: You’ve led Saint-Gobain through the Great Recession, it’s increased focus on sustainability, the digitization of the company, and now COVID-19.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni Heather Clancy Mon, 06/29/2020 – 02:30 June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift Katie Thompson Levey Tue, 03/23/2021 – 01:45 “I am discovering a whole new respect for chief sustainability officers,” I texted the facilitator of Leading the Sustainability Transformation. Where should a business begin? Here are my lessons learned.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. This is getting uncomfortably close to the 1.5

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. T]he massive operational disruption wrought by the coronavirus pandemic will compel companies to fundamentally rethink their sourcing strategies," the report says.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

These realisations - along with revelations about the fragility of the electronics supply chain exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and worries over future shortages of material such as glass, copper, gold and aluminum - are motivating a flurry of activity this year related to the circular economy for electronics.

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