3BL Media

JULY 28, 2022

Walmart has crossed the halfway mark towards achieving its Project Gigaton™ goal to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its global value chain by 2030. To date, suppliers report having reduced or avoided more than 574 million metric tons of supply chain emissions. With 90% of U.S.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. Tesla’s Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern (Published 4.22.2022) In its 2020 impact report , Tesla said, “None of our scrapped lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) go to landfills and 100% are recycled.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2024

Even before the term “ESG” came into the limelight, we were actively investing in water conservation projects since 2001, measuring our GHG emissions since 2006, and reporting on our environmental efforts since 2004.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a technical coalition formed in 2006. By focusing on this, BIER aims to affect sector change through work focused on water stewardship, energy efficiency and climate change, beverage container recycling, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem services.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“This year the world continued to face global challenges, including poverty, access to education, digital inclusion, racial and social injustice, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the environmental, social and economic impacts of climate change.” said Cristiano Amon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 16, 2022

BIER aims to affect sector change through work focused on water stewardship, energy efficiency and climate change, beverage container recycling, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem services.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Technology is improving: Allehaut notes that the largest solar project in 2006 was an 11MW project in Portugal. Scientists and engineers are also working on carbon removal, carbon sequestration and storage, hydrogen power, long-duration energy storage, and other innovative solutions to climate change. GW, some 200 times bigger.

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3BL Media

MARCH 19, 2024

This marks the 18th sustainability report from Owens Corning, which published its first report in 2006. “This report reflects the global scope of our people and our products and the many ways they work to make the world a better place.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all. New approach.

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3BL Media

JULY 14, 2022

The threat posed by climate change is motivating efforts around the world to improve corporate sustainability, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C 7] 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, 6.58, Table 6.17. [8] SOURCE: Applied Materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

A convoy of tractors was making its way to a Dutch government building in February when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out his support for farmers revolting against the EU’s regulatory push to drive down climate emissions: “I’m pro-environment, but I support the farmers! Farming has no material effect on climate change.”

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3BL Media

MARCH 22, 2022

Since the effort began in 2006, the company has helped provide safe water access to approximately 68 million people, with a goal of reaching 100 million by 2030. Expanded Safe Water Access to Additional 8 Million People in 2021. To continue to advance this goal, the Foundation is granting $1.5

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. On the other hand, sustainability and climate change have never been so much in focus. WBCSD, From Challenge to Opportunity: The role of business in tomorrow’s society, 2006.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Bush administration that took little interest in regulation or climate change. DuPont may have hired her in the hopes of boosting its troubled environmental image, but in her 12 years with the corporation, Fisher surprised many by bringing in changes that led to notable reductions in pollution.

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3BL Media

JULY 23, 2024

So what that means is that even by addressing the smaller seeming sector, which is the heating and cooling sector, we have an outsized influence in how much we can mitigate climate change. I know some companies that are still using a baseline year of like 2006. And now they are changing. It's so simple. [00:21:45]

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We need to prepare now for more intense and more frequent floods due to climate change and hope this tool will help developing nations in particular to see and mitigate the risks more clearly.”. Flooding in Henderson, Nevada in October 2006 (image credit: Allen , CC BY-NC 2.0 “An estimated 1.5

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

But supply chain problems slowed production at its Chinese plant last year, and in February EM recalled all 429 of its Chinese Solos for “unexpected loss of propulsion.” EcoSynthetix recently received a platinum designation from ratings agency EcoVadis for its contribution to the sustainability of global supply chains.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. The loss of forest cover has stark implications for climate change and biodiversity. The EU is currently debating a regulation on deforestation in supply chains.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis. Bleached flour?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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