Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. So that's my aspiration." Scotland's new land grab?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

“We recognize it is not uncommon for these large firms to have diverse client bases, but do expect them to maintain their ethical obligation to avoid any conflicts of interest,” she wrote in an email. PoliticalWorks and Onward Energy did not respond to requests for comment from DeSmog.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At the same time, she added, the industry must manage its rapid growth by maintaining ethical sales tactics, dealing with waste at the end of product life, investing in cybersecurity and prioritizing equity in the workforce and the customer population.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Green businesses contend the social media giant's policies are treating their adverts in the same way as campaigns from 'dark money' funded lobbyists, undermining the timeliness and effectiveness of their marketing messages in the process. But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

Campaigners say this is a significant policy shift. I think the evidence is incredibly clear: how far we succeed in limiting climate change depends on dismantling fossil fuel industry influence in our politics and culture.”. However, the shift comes as Arts institutions react to mounting public pressure to clean up their image.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

Is it ethical to even research such technologies? The signatories included many prominent climate scientists, as well as the writer Amitav Ghosh and Sheila Jasanoff, an expert on science policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Consumer Choice Center – a US-based group which has links to the Koch fossil fuel network – has lobbied against green policies in the EU through social media adverts and articles in influential publications without being registered as a lobby group. But the plans have been accused of being “unsatisfactory and not ambitious enough” by MEPs.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

In addition, some 200 influential religious leaders have publicly endorsed the demands set out by the campaign, which also calls for policies to create green jobs and deliver a 'just transition' for workers. There's nothing ethical about what these fundamentalist faith groups are doing.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In addition, ESG and corporate sustainability have each developed their own sets of terms, for example, ESG investing, ESG policy, sustainability program, and green business. This translates into ethical and responsible business practices. ESG Policy. Understanding Corporate Sustainability and Its Related Terms.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 8, 2021

Participate in policy briefings and engage with NGOs, trade, or business organizations. Strong interest or experience in sustainability, EVs, politics, urban planning, or mobility. Strong interest or experience in sustainability, EVs, politics, urban planning, or mobility. Perform research on current market trends.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 30, 2019

CPA is seeking a policy-minded, politically savvy, and detail-oriented professional to join our growing team as Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs. have a strong work ethic befitting a start-up environment. Committee meetings, along with jointly staffing, together with CPA’s Policy Director, the Board’s. developments.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 30, 2019

CPA is seeking a policy-minded, politically savvy, and detail-oriented professional to join our growing team as Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs. have a strong work ethic befitting a start-up environment. Committee meetings, along with jointly staffing, together with CPA’s Policy Director, the Board’s. developments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs. The result is policies that potentially lead to trade-offs and future lock-ins, instead of synergies and multiple benefits. The Commission is preparing new rules on critical raw materials.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

By engaging in climate-washing, corporations are trying “to shift public perception regarding their business activities to be viewed as part of the solution to, rather than the primary cause of, climate change,” explains a January 2022 policy briefing examining this type of litigation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Here in the US, the question was: could Congress and a subsequent president unravel or block Obama’s signature climate policies ? Given how much capital is already invested in our fossil fuel-dominated energy system, it will take decades to replace the energy infrastructure , even with climate-friendly policies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At least a million Uyghurs have been forced into detention camps over the past six years, where they are subjected to beatings, torture, forced sterilisation and political re-education. government has described China’s actions in Xinjiang as a form of genocide. and the West, who attempt to use Xinjiang to contain China.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2022, IPG published a policy directly addressing the issue of working for fossil fuel clients — something the other five companies have yet to do. The policy has a number of requirements, including that clients must set specific emission reduction goals that are aligned with net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

But from anti-corruption measures and sustainable supply chain management to progressive lobbying efforts and labour policies, green and responsible businesses can play a key role in maximising the chances of this vital global goal being met.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of “the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.” ” As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

The precise nature of this new support remains unclear, beyond a promise to review planning permission processes for new projects, but the need to create a more supportive policy environment for innovative low carbon farming practices has been recognised. As such, it smacks of political cowardice as much as ideological intransigence.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And on October 28, Congress questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute on their history of blocking climate policy. The American Petroleum Institute publishes “Two Energy Futures,” a policy booklet that advocates expanding coal, oil, and gas production for decades.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

voters by Real Clear Opinion Research, 77 percent of respondents agreed: “The purpose of a corporation is to maximize financial returns for its shareholders, but also to deliver value to customers, invest in employees, deal ethically with suppliers, and support the communities where they work.” In a survey of 2,511 registered U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The websites artificially created the appearance of grassroots political energy, and shared misleading “news” that downplayed environmental damage from fracking while simultaneously promoting the benefits of pro-drilling policies. FTI remains a major, major contractor to the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Lenton and his co-author Simon Sharpe - a policy associate at UCL and deputy director for policy campaigns at the UK government's COP26 unit within the Cabinet Office - argued that by working together to drive down costs and build new markets, small coalitions of countries would be key to triggering these positive tipping points.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

degree (honors) in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied international political economy at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been featured by NACD, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Environmental Leader and Responsible Investor. Susan received a B.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Her work has been featured by NACD, Corporate Secretary, Pensions and Investment, CQ Roll Call, Marketwatch, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Environmental Leader and Responsible Investor. Veena also spent three years with Integrative Strategies Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based Before that, Veena practiced law in India.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Influential investor Adam Matthews, co-chair of the Transitions Pathway Initiative and director of ethics and engagement on the Church of England Pensions Board, described Shell's net zero announcement "the clearest yet in the sector", which has "re-set the global benchmark for oil and gas". A business transformed?

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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."

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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. So there needs to be a policy shift to be allow us to scale.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

They are seeking to understand both the physical risks associated with climate change as well as the ways that climate policy will impact prices, costs, and demand across the entire economy. We need to be mindful of the economic, scientific, social and political realities of the energy transition.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. His relatives participated in political acts such as the occupation of Wounded Knee by Indigenous people from across the U.S., (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Low Impact

JULY 19, 2020

Truly, it helped me to think about economics in a way that felt empowering and surefooted for the first time in a lifetime of knowing that the economic system was a key driver of the mess our civilisation is making of the world. We have already invented the paperclip maximiser , and it is already eating the planet.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. Slow fashion advocates for an ethical garment manufacturing process that respects people, the environment, and animals. Rise and Impact of Toxic Fashion.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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