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Supply Chain Due Diligence Pioneer Sourcemap Raises $10 Million to Meet Global Demand for Transparency and Traceability

3BL Media

The company will leverage Series A financing to improve end-to-end visibility for businesses with complex global supply chains. the leading provider of end-to-end supply chain due diligence software, today announced it has raised a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Energize Ventures with participation from E14 Fund.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Two industries that emit significant quantities of VOCs and have extensive supply chains in China are the electronics and cleaning agent industries. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations.

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Why Should Investors Care About Anti-microbial Resistance?

Chris Hall

It has been estimated that the global death toll attributable to AMR could rise to 10 million people a year by 2050 if we do not act now, with damage to the economy potentially being as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. million people in 2019, up 180% from an estimated 700,000 in 2016.

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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

The steel industry contributes directly to 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. This pivot in business strategy has major significance for the global steel industry.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The state of the planet. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Global corporate clean energy purchasing up 18% in 2020

Renewable Energy World

GW in 2019 – the first year-on-year drop since 2016. Kyle Harrison, BNEF senior associate and the lead author of the report, commented: “Corporations faced a wave of adversity in 2020 – internal corporate functions were disrupted on the outset of the pandemic, and many companies saw revenues plummet as global economies buckled.