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Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Corporate Knights

Since its launch in 2006, a significant portion of the global investment industry has signed on to the United Nations–backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). That is, by showing up to shareholder meetings and trying to steer portfolio companies toward decarbonization.

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Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 4, Episode 2 - Nitty Gritty on Net-Zero

3BL Media

Achieving a net-zero economy is a huge challenge, requiring change on a global scale that impacts the way we live, work and do business. Mahapatra has been leading a global decarbonization of the cooling sector with a particular focus on super pollutant HFCs for more than a decade. But achieving a net-zero economy?

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Meet the man calling out Big Tech’s climate hypocrisy

Corporate Knights

He spent the first decade of his career as a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before shifting into the tech sector to land the position of “green energy czar” at Google in 2006 and later acting as director of sustainability for Facebook.

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Schneider Electric Acquires Climate Consultancy EcoAct

ESG Today

Energy and automation digital solutions provider Schneider Electric announced the acquisition of climate consulting and net zero solutions provider EcoAct. Companies understand the urgency to act but continue to face complexities when it comes to decarbonization.

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Carbon Accounting Startup Optera Raises $12 Million

ESG Today

Founded in 2006 as a boutique corporate sustainability consulting firm, the Boulder, Colorado-based Optera provides sustainability management software enabling companies to accurately measure and manage Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and providing actionable insights and forecasts, and tools to collaborate with supply chain and investment partners.

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Ray of Hope Prize® Awarded to Sparxell for Plant-Based Alternative to Toxic Colorants

3BL Media

Transforming this sector is key to moving away from a fossil-fuel-based economy and to achieving net-zero targets. This technology could decarbonize the chemical industry while applying principles of Green Chemistry to create a new generation of climate positive chemicals.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Kontrol Technologies Growth rate: 367% Cooling and heating buildings accounts for 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Green Building Council, which means homes, offices and factories will need massive makeovers to meet the 2050 net-zero goal. Carbon Engineering Growth Rate: 584% Squamish, B.C.–based

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