GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

The future is climate-friendly software. Last week, Microsoft announced it is teaming up with Github, Accenture and Thoughtworks, a software consultancy, to inspire emissions reductions using a little-considered tool: software. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sarah Golden.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. enable coastal communities to more effectively and equitably adapt to climate impacts. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. And corporate advocacy must be integral to the process, according to a new roadmap published last week by Ceres. "If Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact. Heather Clancy. Mon, 10/12/2020 - 00:15.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative. Public equity asset managers drive what kinds of companies are valuable and thus have the capital to grow, to what industries retirement savings flow by default and what companies can achieve a scale that affords them outsized political and policy influence.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

After months of discussion, last week the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously approved the Advanced Clean Truck rule, which says that more than half of the trucks sold in California have to be zero-emission by 2035. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Transport Weekly, running Tuesdays. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading "Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss," the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness. What this means for boards. The writing on the wall is clear.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital. Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. Ahead of the latest crucial round of talks this week at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), green groups are warning proposals are "an empty shell" that will have a negligible impact on the sector's emissions. Cecilia Keating. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 15, 2021

The pile of submissions was whittled down to 79 semifinalists and then, last week, to 10 "bold ideas for tackling some of the world’s most pressing food systems challenges." Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. And perhaps the waning importance of organic?).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

During the session, Cecily Joseph, adviser for the Presidio Graduate School Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, highlighted the three major components of sustainability in business today — racial equity, climate change, and health and wellness. But also] systemic and institutional racism, policies, education.". Philanthropy.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Figuring out mechanisms through policy to incentivize that targeting would be great.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Last week, the fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill announced a new policy that ties executive compensation in part to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. . Now, nonfinancial metrics are being folded into the mix, with a strong emphasis on climate change and diversity and equity issues. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one. Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Why corporate partners are essential for Third Derivative, a new climate-tech support network. Climate tech is more important than ever, but the systemic challenges entrepreneurs face in shepherding these solutions to commercial success is formidable. Heather Clancy. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 03:00.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet. Of the $14.6

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

California — as well as the rest of the United States and, in some cases, the rest of the world — is facing three major crises right now: the COVID-19 pandemic; the climate emergency; and racial injustice. . Policy & Politics. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). California.

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

By 2030, there could be a half-trillion such devices "at the edge" of the digital networks driving business innovation around the planet, Applied Material President and CEO Gary Dickerson noted last week in a keynote address during a virtual edition of the industry’s annual conference, SEMICon West. . Sponsored Article. Technology.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Now, as ambitious climate goals gain momentum and renewable energy prices drop, attention is turning towards scaling such systems for commercial transport. The CFOs of the organization can’t really understand the cost structure over weeks, months and years," said Chelle Izzi, executive director of NextEra Energy Resources. Courtesy of.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 12, 2021

From Twitter to Amazon, major urban businesses have rolled out a variety of different commuting policies as they contemplate going "back to the office." Climate scientists expect private vehicle usage to surpass pre-pandemic levels. Public, mass forms of high-density transportation are the future our climate relies on.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. org and producer of the Clean Creatives campaign, told BusinessGreen.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed countries and states scrambling for personal protective equipment and ventilators. Entrepreneurial innovation, new investment and regulatory models must be promoted and accelerated to prepare for future pandemics, climate change and to restore the environment. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response. People are understanding how much more the relationships between biodiversity, climate, inequality — may I add racial tension to that? Imagine’s mission is to mobilize business leaders to tackle climate change and global inequality. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift. But as companies such as Mastercard , Facebook and Twitter look at long-term remote work policies, working from home (WFH) is adding a new dimension to corporate carbon accounting. . Energy & Climate.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

When the Business Roundtable updated its Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation a year ago this week, its members surely didn’t anticipate a global pandemic, a recession of historic proportions and a movement for racial justice becoming mainstream. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

At GreenBiz Group’s virtual clean economy conference, VERGE 20 , last week, industry experts discussed the complexities of circularity in solar. In addition, Radavicius noted that pressure on the policy level from the European Commission to incorporate the solar industry into the circular economy. Energy & Climate.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Showrooms and fashion weeks have gone digital. In 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity will launch a new 10-year strategic plan with the Business for Nature coalition driving business support for policy changes and new targets. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The CCC's advice on what to do with the Third Carbon Budget's pandemic-boosted emissions savings is unequivocal - the government must resist the temptation to cynically weaken the UK's world-leading climate targets The government could soon make the most important domestic climate policy decision of the past decade.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

But since that time, I've had the opportunity to speak before Congress, active members of Congress, the Senate, who've actually come to Lowndes County to see for themselves and have been working on policies to try to address this issue in rural communities. Anderson: A few weeks ago, you were in conversation with Khaliah Ali Wertheimer.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Katie Fehrenbacher. Media Source.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. Business as usual wasn’t working.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2020

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The latter commitment is one touted by members of The Climate Pledge, orchestrated by Amazon and Global Optimism, although PepsiCo isn’t a member of that campaign as of this writing. Did that experience influence the final shape of the climate goals? What can they do to mitigate climate change? Photo courtesy of PepsiCo.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

"We have solutions that are bipartisan and cost the government $0.". Myint went on to describe a scalable mechanism for capturing large amounts of carbon in agricultural soils that would, indeed, cost governments $0. We’re trying to unlock the ability of citizens and consumers to take climate action. Policy & Politics.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2021

Under the heading “Transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss,” the seven economies: Commit to a multi-year effort to meet our net-zero commitments and environmental objectives in a way that is positive for jobs, growth, competitiveness and fairness.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The latest — and one of the most aggressive to come from a country leader — was issued a few weeks ago by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who revealed a climate plan that includes banning the sales of new gas-powered vehicles starting in 2030 (some hybrids will be allowed until 2035).

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft's 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz. ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/24/2020 - 02:00.

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