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Fitch Incorporates Low-Carbon Transition Risks Into Credit Scores

3BL Media

In developing the assigned scores, Fitch is now incorporating its view of the creditworthiness impact on sectors, companies, and debt securities as the global society transitions to a lower-carbon economy between 2025 and 2050. The PRI, created by investors in 2006, now has 4,000 signatories representing US$120 trillion in AUM.

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Breaking Down the EPA’s PFAS Regulations: What You Need To Know Now

3BL Media

Beyond the legal and financial considerations, adherence to PFAS regulations also plays a significant role in corporate social responsibility initiatives. To help you stay up to date on these changing regulations, we’ve created this guide to reflect new developments in the EPA’s PFAS regulations.

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How this IoT device from charity: water could advance water access for billions

Cisco CSR

Founded in 2006, nonprofit charity: water has shown an incredible commitment to ensure that more people have access to enough clean water. That’s why the charity: water team developed a scalable solution that can remotely monitor water usage and health of hand pumps, in real-time, using an IoT-based sensor. Having helped over 14.7

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Five ways climate change is impacting humanitarian crises around the world

Cisco CSR

Cisco partners with nonprofit organizations like Akvo , charity: water and Safe Water Network , investing in the development of technology-based solutions that increase access to safe drinking water for vulnerable communities around the world. Mass migration and displacement.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

And the recent resurgence of nuclear energy in the developed world reminds us that reliable, efficient, low-carbon power options already exist — though the nuclear power industry will require new, innovative technologies if it hopes to gain a foothold in the developing world.

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One Acre Fund: How a mobile app prepares smallholder farmers for a successful harvest

Cisco CSR

With the audacious goal of solving global poverty in mind, One Acre Fund (OAF) has been working since 2006 to supply smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa with the resources they need to improve their harvests, raise their incomes, adopt environmentally friendly farming practices and diversify crops to increase resilience to disasters.

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Asia Wakes Up to Blue Finance Regulation

Chris Hall

C pathway which is essential to sustaining human livelihoods in coastal communities, according to the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a global initiative joining world leaders. The cumulative value of green bonds issued reached US$2.2