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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. The streaming media giant just started reporting on its renewable energy usage last winter.

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High Seas Treaty: What does it mean for business?

Business Green

The High Seas Treaty attempts to close this regulatory gap, giving countries new legal powers to create and manage a network of "ecologically representative and well-connected" marine protected areas in international waters, with sustainable development permitted where scientific evidence allows.

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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

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. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide.

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800-MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm to be first commercial-scale project in the US

Renewable Energy World

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), today passed the final major step in the federal review process, which means it will likely become the first commercial scale offshore wind farm in the United States. It’s been a long road to get to this point,” he added.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix

AGreenLiving

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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COP27: Unshackling the demand for renewables

Business Green

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. I think a lot of the feedback that you hear from any of the COPs is we're not doing enough and we're not doing it fast enough.

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