Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” Bayer has outlined target sustainability goals that are aligned with the Paris Agreement and has set out to decarbonize and achieve a net zero target for its supply chain by 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land. It estimates that, if land alone was used to remove the world's greenhouse gas emissions in order to achieve net zero by 2050, it would require at least 1.6

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

Tove Malmqvist Tue, 03/30/2021 – 01:00 As we move into a crucial decade of action on achieving serious progress on sustainability, many are hoping the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recession will serve to reset our priorities toward a greener future in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 22, 2024

In November 2022, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) under the World Bank published a detailed report on the benefits, examples, enabling environments, and project development process of geothermal direct use (GDU) projects.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Defra can meet the appetite of government hunger for net zero strategies by making the most of low hanging fruit, writes CCm Technologies' Pawel Kisielewski. This week, a leaked government memo revealed frustration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for lacking a net zero strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The scale of agri-food giants’ influence and greenwash efforts surrounding the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit , held yesterday in New York City, has raised concern among sustainable farming experts. As the AP reported , “grassroots anti-hunger groups and food experts blasted the event as too corporate, tech-focused.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were behind schedule to meet commitments to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. At the same time, it has never been more important for the food and beverage industry to be more sustainable and more resilient. Sustainable materials. Now, that challenge is heightened.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In signs of a PR war being fought online as well as in person, an earlier draft of the GMA documents stated that several groups – including the UK levy-funded group the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) – were planning to work with social media influencers to amplify their messaging around the summit.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The global recovery from the coronavirus crisis presents an "unmissable opportunity" to invest in nature, deliver net zero emissions by 2050, and reduce the risk of future pandemics, according to a new UN report which attempts to lay out a "comprehensive blueprint for addressing our triple planetary emergency".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kroger and Loop, the circular reuse platform developed by TerraCycle, are bringing their reuse partnership to Portland, Oregon. I think that the model is pretty straightforward," said Lisa Zwack, head of sustainability at Kroger. "[The This pilot is part of an effort toward achieving that goal.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Sustainability Marketing For Green Products And Services. Green businesses engage in sustainability marketing with at least three very different types of customers: “Deep Greens”: The Obsessed . They love sustainability. But address their pain points and goals and you win them over. They don’t care—or oppose your agenda.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

In speech to mark sixth month anniversary of Glasgow Summit, COP26 President argues 'net zero means security, prosperity, and preventing the problems of the present from growing inexorably'. But Sharma insisted the Energy Security Strategy could see the UK secure 95 per cent of its power from low carbon sources by 2030.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Campaign Director will support the success of a range of organizations, each working to transform the American aluminum industry into a model for zero-emission industrial activity, reshoring union jobs in the process and leveraging U.S. Where appropriate, provide short briefs and analysis of these developments for partner organizations.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Achieving food security is central to the realization of UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), and self-sufficiency in food production is the Bangladesh government’s all-time goal,” says Dr. Sara Nowreen , Art of the Possible Awardee for Earth Science Innovation.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 15, 2020

Read on for insights into how corporations are taking climate action and underscoring their commitment to sustainability as the world navigates and emerges from the global pandemic. Innovation and sustainability have to go hand-in-hand as society transitions to a cleaner, greener future. Number seven is affordable and clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A US-led sustainable farming initiative, which aims to raise billions of dollars to tackle climate change, has been criticized for favouring big business and promoting uncertain techno-fixes ahead of U.N. A focus on ag-tech is often hinged on profits for multinational corporations and not sustainable. subsidiary.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 2, 2022

What if a single action could: get troubled teens off the streets and into something productive—and develop their entrepreneurship skills in the process…provide fresh local organic food to inner-city people with no other access to quality produce…clean up a blighted neighborhood vacant lot and spark a caring community spirit?

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

The global green bonds market sent yet more records tumbling last year, as total issuances under the Climate Bonds Standard reached an all-time high of $210bn throughout 2021, helping to unlock a wave of fresh investment in the accelerating net zero transition.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 18, 2022

In the last year we’ve seen increasing recognition of the importance of steel decarbonization, with net-zero announcements from five of the six largest steel companies in the world, new government initiatives flowing from COP 26 and a range of new studies proposing technical and policy pathways. This is where we step in. . Who We Are : .

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We can expect to hear a lot about how the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate , or Aim4C, will be harnessing new technology – from big data to precision fertilizer – to slow ballooning emissions from agribusiness, and fight worsening global hunger. Africa has workable, sustainable alternatives right here at home.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. degree goal will fall quickly out of reach. We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

economy to net-zero emissions by 2050. Mango Materials has developed a technology that transforms methane into biodegradable plastic pellets that can be implemented in any supply chain and eventually decompose on their own. ZeroAvia is bringing hydrogen-electric power to aviation to enable zero-emission air travel at scale.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. Undoubtedly, these sorts of arguments are going to be made [at the member state level].”

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2020

This principle is one of the most powerful and easiest way to achieve a fully sustainable, circular economy. The world was shocked when on April 20, 2020, in an astonishing, history-first, the WTI oil price actually went below zero and worth less than nothing. We lease it from the Earth.

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Climate 4.0

JUNE 18, 2021

What's important is, if one accepts that aggressive IT development is a key to positive socioeconomic progress around the world (as I believe), then a key vision and mission for any nation is to ramp up IT jobs across the board and thereby strengthen its Q sectors. This index produces benchmarks that can serve as goals.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2021

Schools might be the public infrastructure soon kicking off this development. . Environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth and Meatless Monday have been advocating for a shift to sustainable and healthy cafeteria food for years. Growing a generation of sustainable eaters. "At Scaling plant-based supply chains.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Schools might be the public infrastructure soon kicking off this development. Environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth and Meatless Monday have been advocating for a shift to sustainable and healthy cafeteria food for years. Growing a generation of sustainable eaters. "At Scaling plant-based supply chains.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In his decision, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said the project would deliver a net zero emission mine, would have a "neutral" impact on global greenhouse gas emissions, and could prove compatible with the UK's climate goals. BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to a decision that has infuriated the green economy.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Autumn was a nominee for the International Children’s Peace Prize and spoke to the UN General Assembly at the launch of the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development in 2018. The Zero Hour platform calls for climate justice, including equity, racial justice, and economic justice.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

and globally, we’re targeting technologies, such as the ones developed by Kando and FREDsense , that offer opportunities for improvement in the water system beyond traditional centralized treatment plants. For many companies, becoming “zero waste” is a difficult endeavor. As water crises increase both in the U.S.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Below is my annual year-end review of sustainability that was posted at HBR.org right after Christmas. Every year, I look for important themes in sustainability that will have lasting impact on society, from glaring evidence of global megatrends to inspiring stories of corporate action. (Hi to my blog readers. Happy new year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Biden-Harris administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have an important backer in their quest to achieve an ambitious climate agenda — corporate America and its increasing hunger for carbon-free energy. electricity sector emissions to zero by 2035. On Monday, a notable subset of the largest U.S.

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