Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

By providing educational resources, investing in an extensive tree planting program, and financially supporting the sustainability goals of state and local NAR associations, NAR is driving a purposeful and profitable course that’s creating a greener real estate industry. Creating a robust and thorough sustainability plan.

Real Estate 78

Real Estate Sustainability Ethics Resilience 78

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This makes it difficult to invest in green practices that may have upfront costs but long-term benefits. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Through reform, we can create a more resilient and environmentally friendly food system.

Sustainability 195

Sustainability Fossil fuels Climate change Government 195

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A strategy that includes sustainability is key to building resilience, improving profits, and reducing risk. When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Sustainability Programs. Companies need to get serious about sustainability.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A strategy that includes sustainability is key to building resilience, improving profits, and reducing risk. When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Sustainability Programs. Companies need to get serious about sustainability.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? About 77 percent of ESG funds that existed 10 years ago are presently available, whereas only 46 percent of traditional investment vehicles maintain that survivorship. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:30.

Investment 472

Investment Climate change Ethics Government 472

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Leapfrogging : Creating opportunities for developing countries to bypass the polluting and inefficient ways of conventional development and ‘leapfrog’ their way towards societies that promote green jobs, environmentally responsible practices and technology, efficient resource management, and community resilience. SDG 12 Targets for Business.

Business Energy Monitoring 130

Business Energy Monitoring Ethics Waste Waste 130

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

Such criteria is used to measure an entity’s risk exposure with the aim of improving investment decisions. This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense. And since the report’s publication, such investments have grown exponentially. Why is ESG important? So what marks them as different?

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 148

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

JUNE 24, 2021

Ethical building society releases report looking at environment impact of all its residential mortgage lending. The CCC said more action is urgently needed to curb emissions from homes and make properties more climate resilient and energy and water efficient.

Carbon 54

Carbon Ethics Climate change Fossil fuels 54

Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Scottish Widows Maria Nazarova-Doyle explains how the coronavirus crisis has made green investments more attractive than ever. The investment industry is set up to respond swiftly to shifting investor preferences, although for many years it has been fuelled by the same traditional sectors, such as utilities, energy and fossil fuels.

Ethics 57

Ethics Investment Sustainability Climate change 57

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top companies today are taking this role seriously and developing innovative solutions to reduce their emissions, minimize impact across all aspects of the value chain, increase climate resilience and promote better climate awareness. SDG 13 Implementation.

Climate change 88

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 88

Green Market Oracle

JULY 5, 2020

Not only this, business leaders better understand that sustainability is more than just good ethics—it is a key part of any resilient business model. As UBS Group Chairman, Axel Weber has placed sustainable investing at the core of the firm’s strategy?in Can the recent disruption spur positive action?

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Global warming Ethics Climate change 52

Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

How can the UK shift society and economy to a model that is fairer and more resilient? How are they going to prove that they place ethics above excessive profits, that they see long-term investment as more important than short-term gain and that they genuinely support communities? A more resilient food system.

Sustainability 68

Sustainability Fashion Retail Resilience 68

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

She also suggested that cancelling debt could help developing economy governments free up resources to invest in climate mitigation and resilience measures. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.". The lessons for governments, businesses, and investors should be clear.

Climate change 97

Climate change Pollution Fossil fuels Resilience 97

Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

Shell has today reiterated its commitment to slashing its carbon footprint, despite the challenges presented by the coronavirus crisis and plunging oil price with CEO Ben van Beurden stressing that the company must "further step up efforts on all fronts, from climate change to ethical leadership to greater transparency".

Carbon 59

Carbon Carbon-neutral Ethics Climate change 59

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Chris on a Fleet Farm “Swarm” Chris Castro joined the city of Orlando as the Director of Sustainability and Resilience in 2016, but his title doesn’t even begin to capture Chris’s drive to fight climate change and environmental injustice. 10:57 – How planting 5,000 palm trees nurtured Chris’ work ethic.

Climate change 52

Climate change Ethics Electric vehicle Resilience 52

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

C and build resilience for current and anticipated climate change impacts. Top companies today are taking this role seriously and developing innovative solutions to reduce their emissions, minimize impact across all aspects of the value chain, increase climate resilience and promote better climate awareness. SDG 13 Implementation.

Climate change 78

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Both companies already have commitments to eliminate deforestation, but the investment firm would like to see them become even more aggressive with members of their soy supply chains. As 2021 begins, more companies are seeing their strategies for addressing deforestation deep down into their supply chains scrutinized. .

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 542

Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. This movement encourages slower production and invites the consumer to invest in well-made, life-long products. This also includes their social responsibility values, making sure they practice ethical labor and do not utilize slave or child labor.

Fashion 148

Fashion Sustainability Biodegradable Packaging 148

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Customers benefit from our ability to design, develop, finance and construct solutions to increase energy efficiency, optimize operations, leverage renewable energy assets, and plan for a resilient future. Our unique position enables us to deliver objective solutions for measurable cost savings and sustainable roadmaps for energy generation.

Ethics 40

Ethics Education Resilience Construction 40

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. The Corporate Sustainability Team will be working with our CEO and executive team to implement new initiatives as they relate to sustainability and operational resilience. When there is a will, there is a way!

Sustainability 474

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 474

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is the third year running in which Xavier Creative House have addressed their carbon footprint by investing in carbon offset schemes. In addition, XCH became green business certified with the Green Business Bureau to expand their knowledge of how to address waste, equity, resilience, and health and wellness.

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Biotech 78

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Global food and ingredients group Archer Daniels Midland also invested via its venture arm ADM Ventures, along with Cavallo Ventures, the venture group of agriculture products retailer and ingredients business Wilbur Ellis, and GELITA , the leading global supplier of collagen proteins.

Startups 52

Startups Agriculture Investment Ethics 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Global food and ingredients group Archer Daniels Midland also invested via its venture arm ADM Ventures, along with Cavallo Ventures, the venture group of agriculture products retailer and ingredients business Wilbur Ellis, and GELITA , the leading global supplier of collagen proteins.

Startups 52

Startups Agriculture Investment Ethics 52

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

degrees C food system looks like, and define how their business model will need to shift to guarantee not only that we can stay within planetary boundaries, but also to ensure their business’ long term resilience. These examples show the importance for every company to take a step back and look at the overall picture, understand what a 1.5

Health 531

Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 531

Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Across the sectors, there are a number of other irons in the fire, and companies that are fast to adapt will have greater resiliency in a low carbon future," he said. None of the steel companies assessed disclose whether their position on climate aligns with the trade associations they are a member of, the report notes.

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Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon Recycling 79

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Experts appointed by the EU Commission presented their final recommendations for what investments and activities should be considered 'sustainable' - but there remain several key unanswered questions. What exactly is ESG investing? The Taxonomy provides the finance sector with a list of green investment opportunities.

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Carbon-neutral Waste Waste Sustainability 59

Low Impact

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I’d like to ask you some questions about saving and investment in a credit commons – in a world where the ‘money’ is mutual credit. Part of it is part of my work for the Institute for Strategy Resilience and Security at UCL. I’m working on action research to come up with a more resilient financial system.

Building Energy Monitoring 135

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Investment Business Energy Monitoring 135

Business Green

MAY 17, 2020

Hard ethical choices have had to be made: from doctors deciding who gets intensive care and who does not, to world leaders trading off economic damage against lives saved. Peter Michaelis is head of Liontrust's sustainable investment team. And yet on reflection I still believe we should be optimistic about the future.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Climate change Ethics Government 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It also warns that driving a fundamental shift away from current extractive models will require a step change in current approaches to corporate sustainability.

Sustainability 44

Sustainability Health Resilience Ethics 44

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

The many activities we will be able to pursue with the local community will give us the chance to create an exemplar of community-company synergy and enshrine public integrity principles with ethical private interests." Fund managers have told us that our mass ownership works well for them, because of the element of social licence it brings.

Biodiversity 40

Biodiversity Government Carbon-negative Investment 40

Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. But as ever for a start-up, there is also an investment challenge.

Soil 36

Soil Carbon-negative Carbon Agriculture 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These range from undertaking a detailed audit of how their existing operations impact the environment, local communities, and climate, to working with partners across the private sector to drive regulatory and policy change that can enable greener, cleaner, and more ethical business practices.

Sustainability 64

Sustainability Biodiversity Policy Global warming 64

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? About 77 percent of ESG funds that existed 10 years ago are presently available, whereas only 46 percent of traditional investment vehicles maintain that survivorship. A declining investment rationale for fossil fuels. What was once a trend is now a rout.

Investment 28

Investment Climate change Ethics Government 28

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The policies, procedures, ethics, values, attitudes, goals, code of conduct and employee behavior combine to define the culture of your business. A sustainable transformation needs your employees to be emotionally invested (engaged) with your green goals. It is ideal for sustainability leaders and store managers. Download Now.

Retail 148

Retail Sustainability Organic Education 148

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

As such the Strategy is a deliberately narrow response to Dimbleby's independent review and is designed to focus on "longer-term measures to support a resilient, healthier, and more sustainable food system that is affordable to all" rather than short term measures to tackle rising food prices. Fresh funding commitments are kept to a minimum.

Government 36

Government Agriculture Carbon-negative Policy 36

Green Technology

MARCH 14, 2023

That’s important, because the Masterplan emphasizes CSUSM’s position as an active leader in sustainability and makes clear not just the moral and ethical case for sustainability, but also the business case: saving money and providing educational and research opportunities for students.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Education Business Energy Monitoring 52