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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. Listen to the full episode to learn more about the importance of transparency, data and ambition as companies develop and act on their sustainability goals to reach net-zero.

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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). If we don’t get real-world emission reductions, we’re not going to get to net-zero, and having a net-zero portfolio isn’t going to help,” she said.

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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

Ever since the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) first dropped a bombshell report on the “enormous” ecological impact of livestock farming back in 2006, the trillion-dollar global meat industry has been on the defensive. And it appears the meat industry has been capitalizing on all the confusion. It’s possible.”

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Bearing and seal maker shares net-zero manufacturing journey

Envirotec Magazine

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. 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.

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This is New York's first all-electric skyscraper

Corporate Knights

In 2006, Della Valle designed a Manhattan penthouse for entrepreneur Katherine McConvey, the founder and CEO of Texas-based KMM, a cable and wireless supplier to big telecom firms. (In Toronto, natural gas for residential heating accounts for 30% of the city’s total emissions.) Alloy’s secret weapon?

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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. I’m confident that our combined best-in-class teams will help our clients to accelerate even faster towards their net zero ambitions.”

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