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Can carbon capture be a meaningful climate solution?

Corporate Knights

Phasing out fossil fuels is key to cutting emissions and fighting climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body charged with assessing climate change science, includes carbon capture and storage among the actions needed to slash emissions and meet temperature targets.

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Gildan Celebrates Two Decades of Sustainability Reporting With the Release of Its 2023 ESG Report

3BL Media

About Gildan Gildan is a leading manufacturer of everyday basic apparel. Gildan owns and operates vertically integrated, large-scale manufacturing facilities which are primarily located in Central America, the Caribbean, North America, and Bangladesh. Read the full 2023 ESG Report here.

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World Environment Day Spotlight: Gildan Leaders on What Sustainability Means to Them

3BL Media

With a longstanding commitment to sustainability, leading apparel manufacturer Gildan has had an ESG journey spanning two decades. Our teams at Gildan are always looking for innovative ways to formulate sustainable manufacturing processes, ultimately creating more durable, comfortable, and better-fitting t-shirts.

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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?

Renewable Energy World

The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme. For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004.

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Blackstone Invests in Rooftop Solar Solutions Provider Esdec

ESG Today

Founded in 2004, Esdec develops and distributes professional rooftop solar racking and mounting systems and solutions for residential and commercial roofs. Earlier this year the firm stated that it sees an opportunity to invest an estimated $100 billion in energy transition and climate change solutions projects over the next decade.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Elsa Wenzel.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Nowhere did these by-products of economic growth appear on balance sheets. He cited the old accounting adage “What gets measured gets managed” and made it clear that the converse also applies.

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