3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2023

He was promoted to principal environmental engineer in 2007, to manager of environmental engineering in 2008 and to his current position in 2010. By environmental management systems, we’re talking about air, wastewater, the things that we interact with in our communities and manufacturing organizations. What are some recent milestones?

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: If there were any doubts in West Africa about the impact of climate change on nations with underlying sustainability issues, including poor infrastructure and food insecurity, the recent floods in Nigeria — economic powerhouse of the region — should have dispelled them. SOURCE: SAP.

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Gail Tverberg

JULY 5, 2022

By 2010, per capita energy consumption was back above the 2007 and 2008 values. [3] It is clear from Figure 4 and Figure 6 that between 2001 and 2007, the quantity of energy consumed per capita was rising rapidly. Manufacturing was rapidly being moved to China. In fact, coal supplies around the world started running short.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

based manufacturer of sporty, one-person electric cars, recalled 429 of its three-wheel “Solo” models in February, due to both performance (occasional losses of power) and regulatory issues. closed its doors in 2007. It hopes to sell its process, materials and support services to concrete manufacturers in Ontario, Quebec and Europe.

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B the Change

AUGUST 25, 2022

Learn more about this growing movement of Certified B Corporations using business as a force for good, and sign up to receive the B The Change Weekly newsletter for more stories like this one, delivered straight to your inbox once a week. We manufacture high-quality personal care products responsibly made with your melanin in mind.”

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

A President pushing for solutions to combat climate change. In 2007, wind energy was about as welcome in America as alien spacecraft, with all kinds of objections blocking project approval. All the talk of combatting climate change with clean energy fell on deaf ears. Lessons from wave one.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 10, 2022

Climate change is an economic, social and environmental challenge with increasingly evident consequences, and human-produced greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause. tonnes of CO 2 per tonne of products manufactured. billion kg) of used electronics since 2007. million tonnes of e-waste in 2019. billion pounds (1.1

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

Many investors are already familiar with green bonds, which have been on the market since 2007. The European Union (EU) has created a detailed taxonomy for sustainable activities that investors can refer to when authenticating green bond issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 31, 2023

Both coal and natural gas are also heavily used in manufacturing. If coal or natural gas prices rise in a particular location, the cost of manufactured goods from that location will also tend to rise. GDP growth will be reduced, and the profitably of manufacturers will tend to fall.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

All 36 water samples collected around Europe, including in the Baltic Sea, the English Channel, along the Atlantic coastline and in the Mediterranean Sea, were found to contain microfibres – tiny plastic fibres that enter the environment from manufacturing, washing and wearing synthetic clothes. fragmented fishing gear and lines.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2023

The New York Times reported last year the ISA had been sharing key information on some of the most valuable seabed tracts since 2007 with TMC, giving the company a “major edge” in their DSM ambitions. The ISA hasn’t escaped criticism. Dobush adds that investors should be “asking hard questions about the financial models around DSM”.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2022

Growing concern about climate change added pressure to reduce a company’s carbon footprint. But it took the financial crisis of 2007 to turn the spotlight on excessive risk and expose whole industries to accusations of corruption and greed. The following list includes key ESG standard-setting frameworks to track.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, it takes over 7,000 litres of water to manufacture a single pair of blue jeans. A company that spews carbon into the atmosphere can still manufacture products, produce revenue and grow earnings – which implies that high carbon emissions do not directly or materially impact corporate profitability.

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Gail Tverberg

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Use global supply chains to source as large a share of manufacturing inputs as possible from countries with low wages and low energy costs. The world’s biggest problem is climate change.” ” In fact, there was no real reason to believe that the shortage situation had changed.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Climate Change Development 98

Gail Tverberg

MARCH 5, 2023

From the consumer’s point of view, the price of oil needs to be sufficiently low that food and other goods manufactured using oil products are affordable. The world was on a fossil fuel energy consumption per capita plateau between 2007 and 2019. In practice, oil prices tend to rise and fall, and rise again.

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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.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 17, 2024

Instead, we are told a “sour grapes” narrative: “We need to move away from fossil fuels to prevent climate change.” Coal and natural gas are important in steel and concrete manufacturing, and in providing heat for many processes. The Great Recession of 2007-2009. The 2020 pandemic and its response.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It appears to me that the temporary rise in short-term interest rates between 2004 and 2006 ultimately caused the Great Recession of 2007-2009. As China ramped up its manufacturing, the price of oil tended to rise because more oil was needed for manufacturing and shipping the goods China made.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 30, 2021

The result was a dip in average wages, both in the 1970s and at the time of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. This partly reflects auto manufacturing moving to Japan and Europe, where smaller, more fuel-efficient cars were already being sold. Businesses with fewer customers laid off workers.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Elsa Wenzel.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). In the European Union, just this month, both Spain and Hungary have outlined projects to stop burning coal by 2030. A moral imperative. while GDP grew too.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 16, 2025

Engineered by a state-owned Chinese manufacturer, with Chinese-made lithium phosphate batteries charged by a Chinese-built solar farm, the 70-seat train is an example of the kind of power wielded by one of the key drivers of the global energy transition. But zoom out and another picture snaps into view.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 4, 2025

After the spike in oil prices in oil prices in 1973, manufacturers started making cars smaller and more fuel efficient. Close examination of the third line on Figure 1 shows that between about 1993 or 1994 and 2007, the consumption of middle distillates was rising relative to world population. They are terribly polluting.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One example is human activity causing climate change and contributing to poor health outcomes (e.g. through water insecurity, mental health crises after climate disasters, increase in respiratory and cardiovascular disease from poor air quality due to wildfires).

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Green Technology

JUNE 7, 2018

California has set ambitions goals for slowing climate change. DOT sets the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard that each auto manufacturer must meet. In 2007, under George W. This process has continued for decades. California’s severe air pollution problems have made it a pioneer in air quality research.

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EPA Climate Change Development Manufacturing 55

Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the period 1981-2007, average US GDP growth (of 3.2%) soared above world energy consumption growth (of 2.1%). GDP counts the quantity of goods and services produced, not whether added debt has been used to manufacture these goods, or whether customers have used debt to purchase these goods. [4]

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