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Women’s History Month Spotlight: Marina Bay Sands' Penny Lo Outlines Her Career Journey and Key Learnings

3BL Media

Penny Lo joined Marina Bay Sands in 2010 as associate general counsel and now serves as vice president and deputy general counsel, data protection officer. My then-boss Faris Alsagoff had joined Marina Bay Sands in 2010 and asked me if I was interested in an opening at the resort. So much of it is also by chance.

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Mining Linked to Human Rights Abuses

Chris Hall

International NGO the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s (BHRRC) latest transition minerals tracker identified more than 630 allegations of human rights abuse connected to the extraction of seven key critical minerals – including copper and lithium – since 2010.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets.

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Carbon Metrics Key to Investors’ Net Zero Path

Chris Hall

In line with this, the pension fund has cut carbon emissions in its listed equity portfolio by more than half since 2010, representing a 65% decrease. The results affect divestments in our portfolio.” This enables investors to select companies that are material for the energy transition, while divesting from high-emissions companies.”

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation

Targeting Adolescents Over the 2010s, the number of youth-organizing groups in California grew from 10-15 in 2010 to 171 by 2019. Drawing from both research and lived experience, we discuss what makes youth organizing groups successful in building the power to influence policy making and brighten the futures of young people of color.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997.

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The Private Equity World: Broadening Focus on Sustainability – The Blackstone Group is All In

Sustainability Update

P/E has invested $100 billion in renewable energy since 2010 says the AIC. That organization says in 2020 the P/E industry invested $24 billion-plus just in renewable and sustainability projects… “playing a critical role in the energy transition and moving our economy in a more sustainable direction.” TOP STORIES.