3BL Media

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Convened and facilitated by Antea Group for nearly two decades, BIER has been instrumental in driving progress on critical sustainability issues such as water stewardship, climate change, and sustainable packaging.   “We are thrilled to have Erica take on this important role,” said Brian Ricketts, CEO of Antea Group USA.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With much of modern commerce occurring online, this has led to the development of a complex global supply chain that is often erratic, wasteful and energy intensive. Businesses throughout the value chain, as well as individual consumers, are becoming more aware of how their habits contribute waste to the landfill after use.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Company’s efforts around sustainable supply chain management maintained with the 2025 goal of auditing 100 percent of primary semiconductor manufacturing suppliers every 2 years for conformance to its Supplier Code of Conduct. The Company is also continuing efforts that are helping advance us towards our 2040 net-zero target.

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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

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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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

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 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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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3BL Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

The updated guidance underscores near- and long-term decarbonization strategies, providing a clear pathway to align with global climate goals and build resilience in the face of climate change. The Beverage Industry Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Sector Guidance, Version 4.3

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3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2025

Driving Agility and Collaboration in a Shifting Landscape Since its formation in 2006, the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) has unified the beverage sector in its advancement of global environmental sustainability.

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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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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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Green Tech Gazette

MARCH 1, 2025

As nations strive to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change, offshore wind energy has emerged as a key component of the clean energy revolution. Founded in 2006, Mingyang has rapidly grown to become one of the world’s top wind turbine manufacturers, known for its innovative solutions and commitment to sustainability.

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