GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

As unprecedented as these times are, and as uncertain as the near future may be, some past events offer small but important parallels that could yield tools and ideas for how to proceed. Take time to be observant before deciding on how sustainability can be a solution. . Kathrin Winkler. Tue, 05/26/2020 - 08:00.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

Such criteria is used to measure an entity’s risk exposure with the aim of improving investment decisions. For instance, it’s estimated that by 2025, 50% of all professionally managed investments in the United States will be ESG-mandated assets (according to the Deloitte Center for Financial Services). What is ESG?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This move away from short-termism by financial institutions and capital markets has created a new buzzword in the corporate world: ESG. This move away from short-termism by financial institutions and capital markets has created a new buzzword in the corporate world: ESG. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

New 'Principles for Paris-alignment' published as corporates face growing criticism over toothless climate pledges. The principles insist that financial institutions must set out how they intend to spur emissions reductions across their portfolios through investment, stewardship, financial, and underwriting decisions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. We did not specifically ask the alumni to consider the broader question of systemic racism, as our outreach was completed prior to the national protests triggered by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

DWP consultation confirms Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-aligned disclosures will be mandatory across the board by 2025. The consultation confirms a "significant portion" of mandatory requirements can be brought forward to 2023.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 25, 2022

The GHG Protocol’s emission classification system. And doing that successfully starts by understanding how GHG emissions are categorized. To expand on these definitions, we’ve produced a series of articles, with each piece covering a specific corporate emissions category. This article focuses on scope 3 emissions.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 4, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Vano , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Extreme weather events.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Green Business Bureau has created the below ESG image infographic to help you understand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, and how this criteria relates to corporate sustainability. Which is exactly what our economy needs to help mitigate global issues such as climate change, and protect basic human rights.

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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. Certifications can be issued by government agencies, non-profits or private companies. General business sustainability certifications.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. That can put them on the wrong side of policy changes needed to bring about the more sustainable world they often have publicly committed to building. [This appeared in MIT Sloan Management Review last month.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

They discussed Clean Energy Action’s white paper on utility accountability and how we can equitably transition to a clean energy future for a recent episode of ILSR’s Building Local Power podcast, republished here for Local Energy Rules. Securitization can lower the rates on these payments from seven percent to three percent.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link].

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. The figure shows the pathways by which climatic hazards aggravate specific pathogenic diseases.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Group highlights how no G20 nation has disclosed agricultural emissions targets to date. According to the coalition's 'Where's the Beef' statement, investors are "deeply concerned" about the risks presented by climate change to regional and global economies and to investment assets in the agriculture sector.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. When thinking about carbon offsets, organizations must choose certified and vetted options, as certification bodies enforce the rules of carbon offsetting, to maximize the effectiveness of offset schemes.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

How Wall Street can win on climate In 2021. This year, financial institutions must make a significant leap forward on climate — from pledges to progress. At the start of 2021, leading investors openly recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk and a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 13, 2020

When COVID-19 arrived, we saw the impact that global crises have overnight, teaching the corporate sphere valuable lessons about risk mitigation. Economic estimates predict that the pandemic will decrease global GDP by 3 percent in 2020, and at our current pace, climate change is estimated to decrease the global GDP by anywhere from 2.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The SDR will build on the UK's Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) implementation and will cover three types of disclosure: Corporate disclosure - New requirements for companies - including those in financial services - to make sustainability disclosures comprised under proposed international standards.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

Why the ESG bandwagon must embrace adaptation Peter A. The elephant in the room To their credit, the sponsors of several prominent initiatives to promote climate-related disclosure (such as CDP) expressly request information on organizational risks and plans to address them.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

It is one of the most important, and yet under-reported aspects, of the net zero transition – how are the world’s supply chains responding to surging demand for the commodities needed to decarbonise the global economy? The financial challenge of funding them. And what does the net zero commodities boom mean for business everywhere?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we begin another year of what's being referred to in climate circles as the "decade to deliver," it is being defined by ESG, driven by shareholders and aided by new disclosure requirements on climate risk and human capital management. . "The Sign up here. pension fund. pension fund. As a general matter, U.S. In the U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a press conference in the Spanish capital on Sunday, after revealing the key takeaways from the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate report, due to be published during COP25. degrees “is still within reach.”

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Meeting the hugely ambitious peace and justice targets of SDG16 will mean developing effective, accountable, and transparent institutions across the world. Indeed, they have been contributing to SDG16 and the wider UN Sustainable Development Goals for years, reimaging how businesses should operate in the process.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Partner Content: For financially constrained local authorities, deciding where to invest public money to achieve net zero carbon targets is increasingly complex. The number-one priority for local government must be to improve the lives of people who live, work and play in their area. methane - CH4).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. A Loss and Damage fund is finally on the way.

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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. The LWA has been interviewing growers about how they can improve their environmental performance.

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Business Green

MAY 2, 2022

How do you create the rules for a brand new market? The former UN climate chief and esteemed academic is the co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), a group aiming to establish a framework for how companies can credibly tap carbon removal credits so as to reduce their climate impact.

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

There’s a World Economic Forum risk report from 2016. It shows a lot of global problems, from financial panics, war, mass migration, pandemics. I guess our task is to help get things in place that can catch people if everything does fall over. So I wanted to ask you – do you think we can vote our problems away?

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 12, 2018

This article is taken from two sources: the Economist and Forbes, For the original Economist article, click here. For the original Forbes article, click here. Google and Facebook accounted for almost all the revenue growth in digital advertising in America last year. Vast pools of data can thus act as protective moats.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Many investors evaluate nonfinancial performance based on corporate disclosures, with most finding value in assurance of the strength of an organization’s planning for climate and other ESG risks. Corporate sustainability has a reporting problem — it always has. But something isn’t right with the status quo of reporting. "By

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. For those who spend their lives in the countryside, city visits can feel chaotic, confusing, and loud in comparison. In truth, neither perception paints an entirely realistic picture.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Elsa Wenzel takes a deep dive into the latest literature on how to develop new zero building projects. Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. Risk and adaptation. operations at the U.K.-based

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

When people are sick, suffering and dying — with little certainty about when or how it will end — how can we be expected to focus on a project deadline, a business meeting or a PowerPoint presentation? And soon, we must start giving serious thought to what we can do to ensure they’re never put in such a desperate position again.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

These systems will remain out of reach, though, unless we address persistent, decades-old structural issues. Price pressures continue to challenge the viability of decentralized food systems and communities of color continue to be underserved — as farmers, food chain workers, supply chain entrepreneurs and consumers.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact.

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