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Here's why companies should assess double materiality

GreenBiz

The new definitions of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and the two papers published by the five reporting standard organizations helpfully clarify reporting standards’ different perspectives on the question "material to whom," enabling greater interoperability between them: .

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon

Grist

Some of the most difficult-to-understand words were mitigation , referring to efforts to reduce emissions to slow down climate change, and carbon-neutral , when there’s no net increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Some people found the shorthand use of carbon confusing. “I

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Sustainability in Healthcare: How Telemedicine and Virtual Meetings Reduce Emissions and Waste

Green Business Bureau

While most changes have been negative–canceled or delayed surgeries, intensive care units filled to maximum capacity, and provider burnout–the rise of telemedicine, virtual care, and remote monitoring is considered a silver lining by many patients and healthcare providers alike. The carbon footprint savings range between 0.70-372

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Last year, he referred in his newsletter to the “supposed emergency of climate change that critics have lambasted as unfounded alarmism.”

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T3 Transformation: A New Chapter for Net-zero Carbon Intelligent Campus

Smart Energy International

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Measuring Sustainability as an Internal Process of a Company

Green Business Bureau

These measures provide real-time data, a much needed quantitative basis for organizations to strategize and mitigate environmental, social and economic risks. This data can be collected internally as a measurement integral to an organization’s daily activities or outside using third-party ratings and indices.