Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

China’s action could reshape an overlooked but critical segment of the global economy: the cross-border flows of scrap that underpin recyclng markets worldwide. China’s plastics recycling rate in 2013 was about 22 percent – far higher than the United States, which averages about 9 percent annually. Kate O’Neill, CC BY-ND.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

At Babban Gona, concessional debt from donor-funded lenders had been instrumental in growing their smallholder base fivefold between 2013 and 2015, without excessive pressure for returns. Access to flexible capital at the right points is key to supporting the AOE model.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

This escalation of conflict has a profound impact on the global economy, with conflict estimated to have a 12.9 percent impact on global GDP. AI Governance Gaps: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force across industries, with investment in AI increasing more than fivefold between 2013 and 2023.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2024

In fact, the number of unique ships entering the Arctic Polar Code area 6 from 2013 to 2023 increased by 37%, around 500 ships. The number of global stakeholders and spirit of competition has swelled as these opening regions force contemplation of land and coastlines ownership and/or stewardship, and international security.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. “In It said: “Based on current economic and market trends, global coal consumption is forecast to rise by 0.7% That takes it back to the level seen in the record year 2013. billion in 2021, from US$362.4 in 2022 to 8 billion tonnes.”

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Seventeen Korean companies have been certified as B Corps to date, starting with a forest-building social venture Tree Planet in 2013. If the B Corp movement is about “transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet,” then, as noted earlier, the participation of big companies is important.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 15, 2022

To help these companies, Michel Scholte co-founded True Price , a Netherlands-based organization that aims to reduce food insecurity and shape a sustainable global economy through a pricing system that incorporates the cost of negative social and environmental impacts. “We We got to know each other.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. Notice that compliance and voluntary carbon markets have interlinked movements, as seen in the 2013 drop in both voluntary and compliance credits.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

B Lab Europe was founded in 2013. Behind these 1,000 B Corps, there are tens of thousands of people working hard to help their companies become better businesses, transforming the global economy to benefit people, communities, and the planet.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 6, 2024

By Zainab Raji In a globalized economy, remittances are a pivotal financial flow for developing economies. However, since most of its population has smartphones , the Philippines has leapfrogged to mobile payments, which have grown from 1 percent of total payments in 2013 to 30 percent in 2021.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. is not a party to the convention, but that matters little in these days of the global economy and the multinational companies many of you work for or the international supply chains you are all part of. I have to clarify that the U.S. and 45 in Mexico.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1% When you compare those costs (and the long-term savings they will yield in the form of a more efficient global economy) against the costs of inaction, they show a clear choice.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 25, 2024

Heat has closed tourist attractions in Greece, schools in Bangladesh and has already cost the global economy trillions in human health, productivity, and agricultural output since the 1990s, according to a study from Dartmouth University. Every year, thermometers are reaching stifling new heights: 48.8°C C in 2022, China breached 52.2°C

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

By 2018, the government had enshrined the goal of creating an “ecological civilization ” — essentially a global life economy — into China’s constitution. This strategy has generated impressive results: To take one example, from 2013 to 2020, as reported in Bloomberg , China reduced air pollution nearly as much as the U.S.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 21, 2020

By Type of Energy Solar PV firms play an increasingly important role in the global economy. These companies added 94 gigawatts to the global solar energy capacity in 2017. million jobs to the global economy. Meanwhile, the global wind energy sector created 1.15 They also contributed 3.4 million jobs.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Nature is the substrate of everything including our economy. According to WWF’s Natural Planet Index , natural resources contribute $125 trillion to the global economy annually. Our economy and our very lives depend on nature, without nature there is no economy and no life.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 11, 2025

Figueres was in the thick of dealing with the pressures of preparing for the Paris Agreement in 2013 when out of the clear blue sky her 25-year marriage fell apart. The largest companies in the United States understand that this is going to be yet another four-year hiatus in efforts to decarbonize the global economy or the U.S.

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