Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It is separated into three main sections, highlighting six relevant megatrends expected to emerge, 12 micro forces driving these megatrends – and how they relate to the way and places we work – and “a unique diagnostic toolkit for business managers and enterprises to assess where they are on their sustainability journey.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2023

A copy of the film can be downloaded in Material Focus’s battery fire comms toolkit which also includes social media templates and other assets. The results were used in over 400 pieces of media coverage including the BBC national and local radio stations, helping to raise awareness of the issue and what actions could be taken.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

An open letter to world leaders calling for bolder progress on the SDGs has been signed by 20 leading activists and backed by 2,000 high-profile supporters, as a new online toolkit aims to help businesses develop SDG strategies. "We We are watching you." These Goals are all our Goals and can only be achieved together.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

As such, the toolkit identifies eight enablers to nudge the likes of architects, contractors, insurance, and finance firms to embrace more circular practices. Systemic thinking puts things into perspective," she said.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2022

The toolkit also aims to help those businesses signing up to the SME Climate Hub to establish an emissions baseline to then track progress against their goal to halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. We want to make measuring carbon emissions and joining the race to net zero accessible to everyone," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Over three in four businesses (76%) are yet to implement comprehensive decarbonisation strategies, capabilities and actions, according to estimates. Over one in ten (12%) said that lack of information was preventing them from action. Awareness is mixed and attitudes split. Barriers are multiple, complex and business specific.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Now we must follow these words with clear action and concrete steps to build this community. While we acknowledge that the steps we are taking now are some of the first among many, we must start somewhere. Our human resource and operational teams are working collectively to create a toolkit for our industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The scheme, which will be provided by Manchester Metropolitan University Carbon Literacy Toolkit for Universities, was first trialled last year with about 100 students and will teach students about carbon usage in everyday life and how to reduce emissions through their own actions and as part of organisations or systems.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Free-to-use resource aims to move industry away from 'take, make, waste model' and encourage more sustainable use of raw materials. The toolkit has already been referenced by Arup for a circular building design project in Essen, Germany, which was commissioned by start-up Futur2K and is expected to be unveiled in May, they said.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We need bold action to avert the climate crisis, so we've brought together the UK's most exciting and innovative tech companies to determine the best path to net zero as fast as possible," said Wood. Industry body Tech Nation is also backing the initiative. "We

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Here is one of our favorites: Stop feeling overwhelmed by the global effort to reduce CO2 emissions, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for the UN’s climate change conference COP26. The UN’s COP26 has developed toolkits for every sector of the global economy and published a roadmap of shared pathways.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

UN-backed SME Climate Hub publishes new report detailing how smaller businesses worry they lack the skills and knowledge to drive climate action. But despite such efforts, only 60 per cent of the SMEs that are taking steps to cut emissions have a long-term emission reduction plan in place.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2022

Zero starts by sending homeowners a diagnostic toolkit. Our software takes in a couple hundred data points about a house and generates a plan telling you exactly what you should do,” Gunnison says. Making this as simple as possible is critical, otherwise we’ll never get there.”.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Leslie Glustrom, an advocate with Clean Energy Action in Boulder. Leslie Glustrom, a biochemist-turned-clean energy advocate, was a founding member of Clean Energy Action. An advocacy group in Boulder, Colo. Episode Notes.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The TPR plans to soon publish guidance for schemes on complying with the UK's upcoming Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting rules, and how it plans to take enforcement action against those which fail to comply, it said.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Easier, though, would be to provide them with a journal to log their own actions. Scientists often rely on a method akin to the first to track how cells change over time; they pick cells out of a group at set time points and take a snapshot of their genetic activity. A new toolkit.

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Fairsnape

JULY 9, 2020

There were a number of Key Actions discussed, but the most important, in my opinion, was that of Education in respect of peat free compost, but perhaps more importantly awareness on peatlands negative and positive contribution to the carbon emergency we face. We rarely think about improving the carbon capture of peatlands. This has to change.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2021

With the COP26 summit closing in, forward thinking companies are hard at work on their climate strategies, looking to set themselves apart in a year of climate action. And we need to show companies how to take action right now to do that. Showing your customers and shareholders that you are taking this issue seriously.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It also said it will allocate £45m from the £274m Climate Action for a Resilient Asia programme that was unveiled yesterday towards empowering local communities and grassroots women's groups in Asia and the Pacific to challenge gender inequalities and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The firm also plans to provide the MSCI Deforestation Screening metrics as part of the toolkit which indicate companies exposed to deforestation-related risks, including those that may directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation. "We MSCI aims to help institutional investors understand those risks on the portfolio level.".

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 16, 2021

They discuss the importance of coalition building, how to take action in a small town, and slowing down to achieve goals the right way. When she moved to Hanover in 2016, she says, much of the groundwork for clean energy action had already been laid by the community – especially by the Sustainable Hanover committee.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

Ultimately, Su’s call to be an agent of change in her community drew her back to the United States as an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity , a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media, and grassroots activism.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The awards were remarkably competitive with hundreds of brilliant entries and scores of companies and projects competing in many of the categories. BBC Studios - Bridgewater House Relocation GPE - 50 Finsbury Square Grid 2.0 & BBC Studios - Bridgewater House Relocation GPE - 50 Finsbury Square Grid 2.0 &

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Warren and Arnsberg made a plan to take thermal scans of their communities in order to visualize building inefficiencies and heat loss. Starting in 2017, students at Northland would take thermal images of every building in Warren using drones. Warren is partnered with Arnsberg, Germany.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 31, 2021

Helena’s clean electricity resolution was born from a 2009 Climate Change Action Plan , which drew inspiration from over 40 community recommendations on how to transition Helena to clean energy. Thirty percent of the city’s electricity supply already stems from hydro, wind, and solar energy.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

That means any scalable system for managing a grid that’s shifting from one-way electricity delivery to a more bi-directional network will have to break down key parts of the complexities involved, taking care of locally arising needs with split-second, automated decision-making.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

asks Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership at the World Economic Forum. This means taking impact investing and building it to become a mainstream ESG-led investment proposition, while reframing the plastic waste problem.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Electric customers in Maine, who are fed up with lousy utility service, can use a ballot initiative to take back their power. In Maine, advocates can take proposed law straight to the voters through a ballot initiative. Originally published at ILSR.org. Still, Our Power Maine has hope for making Maine’s utilities consumer-owned.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

For concrete examples of how cities can take action toward gaining more control over their clean energy future, explore ILSR’s Community Power Toolkit. See these resources for more behind the story: Check out IREC’s press release on California’s new hosting capacity rules. Read our report on the States of Distributed Solar.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2022

The conference comes as pressure mounts on governments to take action that can reduce their economies' and citizens' vulnerability to soaring international oil and gas prices, exacerbated by Russia's attack of Ukraine and manipulation of energy markets. But it's absolutely a key issue for energy efficiency action.".

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While the process is relatively straightforward, it can take over a month to complete! Review and announcement timelines vary from program to program and can take two to six months. Developing partnerships to secure such a letter can take many months. Find a checklist of required documents here.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

If advocates want to take anything away from the South Carolina deal, it’s that we’re broadening the conversation beyond just the typical battle lines between solar and utilities. For concrete examples of how cities can take action toward gaining more control over their clean energy future, explore ILSR’s Community Power Toolkit.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The We Mean Business group of corporates committed to climate action has formally partnered with tech giant Amazon in a bid to quickly expand the coalition of companies working to delivering net zero emissions. Global green business coalition to work with tech giant to encourage businesses to adopt more ambitious net zero goals.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 11, 2021

Grading Utilities on their Climate Action. The Sierra Club describes The Dirty Truth report as “a comprehensive assessment of whether utilities are committing to the actions needed to avert a cataclysmic climate crisis.” The report grades utility plans for the next decade on a scale from A to F.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Energy efficiency services for businesses could be at the heart of a locally-driven economic recovery - all that’s needed is a toolkit to create solutions that businesses actually want, argues EnergyPro's Alex Rathmell. So we cannot rely on sticks to get SMEs to take positive action to reduce their emissions.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 20, 2019

And I could not be more excited to have the opportunity to work with a community that has the power to do nothing less than change the course of climate action in America. Our leaders need to know that we are watching, and we are ready, willing, and able to hold them to account for their actions year in and year out.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

It remains to be seen whether politcians will heed these calls, with William Todst, executive director of Transport & Environment, pointing out that while the proposals have received a pretty warm welcome from policymakers, actions speak than words. This is an unprecedented crisis and it will require an unprecedented response.

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