Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are a variety of ways to make a property more sustainable such as using green building materials , following a regular maintenance schedule, upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and appliances , and investing in onsite renewable energy systems (e.g. solar photovoltaic, wind, microhydropower and hybrid systems).

Real Estate 148

Real Estate Sustainability Carbon-negative Health 148

Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

And today, the Committee on Climate Change, the UK government's official advisors, joined the chorus of organisations making the case for a climate-focused recovery, setting out in clear terms why the government should prioritise climate resilience in its post-coronavirus economic plans.

Resilience 77

Resilience Packaging Aviation Fossil fuels 77

GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. West Des Moines is home to three Microsoft data centers and two more are slated for construction starting in 2021. Heat is the biggest killer from [a] natural disaster perspective.".

Health 543

Health Organic Stormwater Cooling 543

GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

The project, managed by Wetlands International, already has improved the district’s climate resilience, protecting communities from coastal flooding and absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Encourage investment in nature-based solutions. Countries around the world can harness the power of nature to adapt to climate impacts.

Sea level rise 499

Sea level rise Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 499

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

Resilience 36

Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Low Carbon Prosperity

JUNE 22, 2020

Building Back Better: Investing in a Resilient Recovery for Washington State. This report analyzes the potential jobs and community health benefits created by a sample portfolio of investments in Washington State. jobs per million dollars invested. Building a Resilient Recovery Portfolio for Washington.

Health 52

Health Resilience Investment Agriculture 52

Low Carbon Prosperity

JUNE 22, 2020

Building Back Better: Investing in a Resilient Recovery for Washington State. This report analyzes the potential jobs and community health benefits created by a sample portfolio of investments in Washington State. jobs per million dollars invested. Building a Resilient Recovery Portfolio for Washington.

Health 52

Health Resilience Investment Agriculture 52

Smart Energy International

MARCH 16, 2024

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for approval of a transmission lease programme with the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation, which could invest as much as $1 billion through the programme. Citizens President Joseph P.

Investment 52

Investment Resilience Power grid Electricity 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Both the fields of solar panels Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss apparently loathes, and the fields of gambolling lambs she idolises are very much human constructs. There is a reason some scientists have named our current epoch the Anthropocene. Farmers impose as much - if not more - order on their environments as urban planners.

Resilience 68

Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 5, 2021

Energy company Lightsource bp has announced that it will be investing $300 million to develop what is claimed to be Louisiana’s largest solar energy project , 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge in Pointe Coupee Parish. Construction of the 345MW project is expected to begin in the fall of 2021 for operations to begin in mid-2023.

Construction 100

Construction Resilience Sustainability Health 100

Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

As with all UK businesses, we are committed to ensuring that all possible efforts are made to save lives and tackle the current health crisis and resulting economic downturn. Dear Prime Minister, Please accept our support during these unprecedented times.

Resilience 53

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 53

Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

Amazon announced they were investing $700 million into upskilling initiatives for 100,000 employees by 2025. In sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, construction, there is still a gaping need for more tech enabled and scalable upskilling solutions and a nascent field of offerings. Sector specific onramps and training ?—?In

Resilience 52

Resilience Education Health Startups 52

Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

IEA expects global energy investment to plummet by $400bn this year with major implications for renewables, energy efficiency and net zero. Fossil fuels will suffer the brunt of a tighter investment environment, the report notes, with oil and gas and coal investment falling by a third and a quarter respectively.

Investment 53

Investment Energy Energy Fossil fuels 53

AGreenLiving

MAY 29, 2020

The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy Jocelyn Bleriot Fri, 05/29/2020 – 01:00 The COVID-19 crisis has disastrous human and economic consequences, revealing our system’s exposure to a variety of risks. The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S.,

Resilience 36

Resilience Automotive Agriculture Europe 36

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. Alison Humphrey (formerly Larkins) (2019).

Sustainability 488

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 488

Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The framework includes clean energy and technology investments that will encourage widespread use of solar and wind energies while also making solar more affordable for the everyday person to install. Collectively, these investments are expected to bring us much closer to reaching President Biden’s goal of reducing U.S.

Climate change 98

Climate change Resilience Investment Pollution 98

Front And Centered

MAY 4, 2023

Realizing a Just Transition that restores, preserves, and protects communities most impacted by our changing climate requires real investments and a new way of measuring what a healthy economy looks like. The Washington State Legislature wrapped up the 2023 legislative session in late April.

Transportation 98

Transportation Health Investment Organic 98

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. But with the recent pullback in the overall venture market, we've expanded our scope to understand the dynamics and resilience in climate tech.

Building Energy Monitoring 144

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 144

Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is capping carbon emissions while investing in clean energy, clean transportation and climate-resilience projects in communities across Washington state. “It It is capping carbon emissions while investing in clean energy, clean transportation and climate-resilience projects in communities across Washington state.

Policy 52

Policy Transportation Hydrogen Climate change 52

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Incorporating SDG 11, Affordable and Clean Energy, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of urban sustainability, resiliency, reduce your carbon footprint, become a sustainability leader, and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. Building proper capacity and investments within stakeholder groups.

Sustainability 103

Sustainability Resilience Pollution Transportation 103

Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

Pursuing an ambitious low carbon, environmental, and skills agenda as part of the government's economic recovery plan is a key part of the solution to today's public interest concerns around unemployment, regional inequality, and resilience argues Aldersgate Group's Nick Molho. Investing in clean growth holds the key to economic recovery.

Policy 76

Policy Investment Resilience Carbon 76

Business Green

MAY 3, 2020

The political instability and greater uncertainty associated with these events may also impede or reduce investment and economic growth. construction or defensive investment). As such, climate-change-related events may adversely impact contracting parties' ability to fulfill their contractual obligations.

Climate change 50

Climate change Resilience Law Fossil fuels 50

Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

They pose unprecedented threats to public health, safety, security, and supply chains? - They will re-evaluate the resilience of their business models and value chains, and their fundamental reliance on both natural and social capital as well as digital infrastructure. if we are to overcome them.

Carbon 73

Carbon Climate change Resilience Health 73

Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s time for Louisiana leadership to prioritize resilient solutions – solar photovoltaics paired with battery storage ( solar+storage ) paired with energy efficient housing – over continued fossil-fuel investment. Look to Resilient Power Solutions. The Better Public Health Option.

Building Energy Monitoring 95

Building Energy Monitoring Resilience Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 95

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

MAY 26, 2020

and that commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has driven substantial economic growth, from $66 billion in clean energy investments to nearly 540,000 clean energy jobs. With the state’s transportation sector?—?and and the fossil fuels that power it?—?accounting The E2 community knows the ACT rule will deliver on that promise.

Fossil fuels 78

Fossil fuels Transportation Electric vehicle Policy 78

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

We’ll look at the rise and fall of alternate forms of energy and how they support the new resilient society we’re building. And all the while they’re doubling down on investments and complex methods to extract more from their shrinking reserves (like fracking and offshore drilling ).

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 52

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. Meanwhile, over a fifth of the projects identified in the research are relatively small scale and require investments of up to €5m to ramp up, according to EY.

Europe 90

Europe Resilience Packaging Investment 90

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

As California policymakers strengthen the state’s climate and clean energy targets, billions of dollars are being invested to transition to zero-emission cargo-handling equipment at major ports. The Port of Long Beach will invest up to $15 billion to transition zero-emission cargo-handling equipment by 2030, Houston said.

Demand 197

Demand Energy Energy Batteries 197

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Lack of investment from private sector: Private investors don't have the confidence to invest in net zero plans. That's because, in the absence of strong regulation forcing construction companies to decarbonise, retrofitting buildings to cut their carbon use is very expensive.

Climate change 93

Climate change Government Fossil fuels Construction 93

Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

The research, which was based on a survey of 12,000 global executives, found that 76 million jobs are expected to be required by 2030 across green and social sectors, including in agriculture, energy, health, and education. South Africa, China, the UK, and Brazil were all found to be experiencing the greatest shortfalls in these sectors.

Agriculture 56

Agriculture Africa Education Technology 56

Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, the first call from the CBI is for the government to "prioritise public spending and policy on low-carbon programmes that deliver short-term economic and social benefits and lay the foundations for a resilient, net-zero economy". Action is needed now if we are to make a difference.".

Carbon-negative 96

Carbon-negative Packaging Government Resilience 96

Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Spending and policy decisions made now must address both issues, ensuring we "bounce forward", to use EU Commission President von der Leyen's phrase, with plans that deliver the jobs needed for a successful transition to the net-zero economy, a significant reduction in emissions and increased resilience. Stimulus spending.

Government 65

Government Resilience Carbon-neutral Climate change 65

Green Technology

MAY 1, 2023

CLICK HERE for more information Constructive Systems, Inc. As an award-winning sustainability integrator, Constructive Systems, Inc. Our latest solution is the Net Plus Outdoor Learning Center designed to create safe, resilient, outdoor learning environments that produce energy and pay for themselves.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 52

Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

This goes hand in hand with targeted solar infrastructure investments to directly benefit under-served communities and not displace them. Employment is a part of a holistic solution to our mission of improving community environmental health and Just Transition.

Construction 55

Construction Law Fossil fuels Health 55

Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 26, 2024

The innovative financing partnership unites visionary entrepreneurs, community members, public agencies and housing developers to create affordable and disaster-resilient homes that serve as models for future developments.

Resilience 59

Resilience Innovation Climate change Technology 59

EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

ITC stands for investment tax credit. Improve Operational Resiliency On-site renewable energy and storage help companies improve the reliability and resiliency of their operations by mitigating the impacts of supply chain disruptions and power outages. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

Business Energy Monitoring 52

Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Overall, they don't do much to decarbonise the bulk part of our food production or improve the health and well-being of marginalised communities (aside from the folks they may employ in their plants). So what's really the impact of these impact investments? Still, they've proven to be an attractive investment for many.

Agriculture 45

Agriculture Startups Resilience Carbon-negative 45