GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018. GHG emissions are what directly contribute to global temperature rise and are therefore the ultimate target of any action to combat climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

1 Since 2018, the earth has consumed over half a trillion metric tons of materials, which is “nearly as much as the entire 20th century combined”. The second system is built environment, which is responsible for 40% of global GHG emissions, one-quarter of land system change and contributes to water stress.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

But all this self-inflicted pain is nothing compared to all the damage climate change can cause. So, perhaps the single silver lining of the pandemic might be that it can be used as the crystal ball that lends its 20/20 vision for us to see how we can avoid the worst of climate change. The failures. Potential solutions.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With climate change posing more and more of a risk to the world, Gildan understands its responsibility to lower its environmental impact. Attaining a 20% reduction in water intensity by 2030 (compared to a 2018 baseline) to improve water efficiency, and implementing water reducing, reusing, and recycling initiatives.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. And] what about the climate costs?" Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

But in the blistering summer of 2018, there was nothing celebratory about the Rhine. The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. German industry, which uses the Rhine as a transportation lifeline, also suffered.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 7, 2023

Their source might mean you’re participating in the fight against climate change. Most of us are familiar with how greenhouse gas emissions—mainly carbon dioxide—increase the amount of heat trapped within earth’s atmosphere, warming the planet and changing weather patterns. December 21, 2018. Jasi, Amanda. Carbfix.com.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Risk capital and human capital solutions provider Aon announced the appointment of John Neal, who has been serving as CEO of insurance marketplace Lloyds of London, to the newly created role of Global Chairman of Climate Solutions and as Global CEO of Reinsurance. Neal has served as CEO of Lloyds since 2018.

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3BL Media

MAY 22, 2024

The food and agriculture industry contributes one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the agricultural supply chain has become increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including changing patterns of drought, precipitation, and extreme heat. A new approach to food production and agriculture is needed.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 30, 2022

The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I I personally don’t know of any senior leaders in Canada that don’t think [climate change] is a risk, and I couldn’t say that five years ago,” says Laura Zizzo, CEO of Manifest Climate.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 16, 2022

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 29, 2022

With Canada lagging far behind Europe and the United Kingdom in tackling carbon pollution from aviation, the country’s upcoming 10-year climate plan for the sector must be developed with public input and enforce a 30% emissions reduction target by 2030, climate advocates say. This article is republished from The Energy Mix.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 28, 2022

Yes, we care about the climate, but justice, too,” he explains. During the French protests that began in response to a rise in gas prices in 2018, I spoke with Raphaël and 30 other “yellow vest” activists over a few months at protests, meetings, homes and cafés. All my family in the countryside felt this immediately.”.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 3, 2022

Hawn and Aharon Mohliver, a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at London Business School, tracked shareholder responses to American company rankings on the annual corporate equality index (a measure of social responsibility) between 2002 and 2018. How do we propel companies beyond “islands of sustainability”?

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

Despite these efforts, systemic challenges hinder progress, underscoring the complex interplay between sustainability, finance and international cooperation in addressing climate change. because of climate change, a figure expected to escalate to $50 billion by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. John Bello (2018). Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I In 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the three largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions were transportation (28 percent), electricity (27 percent), and industry (22 percent).

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Methane is a primary component in natural gas and a contributor to climate change. In 2022, our methane emissions were about 23% lower than they were in 2018, our baseline year. Why is reducing methane emissions so important to climate change mitigation?

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

Cocoa sourcing has been associated with several sustainability-related risks, including environmental issues such as deforestation, ecosystem degradation and climate change, and human rights risks such as child labor, forced labor, and poverty. Mars is a major user of cocoa, with more than 350,000 farmers in its global supply chain.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

percent) in 2018. As the GSIA latest report was published in 2018, we are yet to see how Taiwanese investors compare to their global peers for the past year. Due to its size, selecting priority ESG topics and scaling up change initiatives took time to evaluate and implement, according to current chairman Young Liu.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. Ateli Iyalla.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 10, 2022

When we look at this year’s list, we are heartened by the continued contributions companies across the globe are making to address climate change. This missed connection between the technical and the human can be striking; to make meaningful positive change on climate, business leaders need to understand that intersection.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 2, 2023

Poland hasn’t exactly been a paragon of virtue in the fight against climate change. Poland has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing solar energy markets, with capacity soaring from 200 megawatts in 2018 to about 10 gigawatts. The estimate includes measures to soften the blow for coal producers. It also plans to build 5.9

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

How did the fossil fuel industry manage to raise a generation of climate change deniers? A research group has just identified a big component of that attitude shift: the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to bury the truth by cozying up to universities and discrediting climate science.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The report found that "in large companies, there has been a significant increase in terms of the sustainability leader reporting to the CEO, from 19 percent in 2018 to 26 percent today.". That’s changing. Given this, it was not surprising to see an uptick in corporate ambition on sustainability issues.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Systemic racism and climate change are not separate issues, and they will not abide separate solutions," said Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives for Apple, in a statement. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Courtesy of.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We Ultimately, I hope to inspire others [so] that we can change the status quo.”. senior policy advisor, Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Reports from InfluenceMap and Transparency International have explored how some industry groups historically have lobbied to obstruct meaningful climate change action in the shipping sector, and green groups have alleged that vested fossil fuel interests continue to play an oversized role in IMO negotiations. . Climate Change.

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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. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the early 2000s, Sylvie Trottier found herself trying to convince her father that climate change was real and dangerous. As an environmental studies student at McGill University at a time when the climate crisis was far from a household name, she knew much more about it than her father, Lorne Trottier.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Climate change affects Essity and the company continuously maps the risks and opportunities this entails by means of, for example, scenario analyses. Essity’s target to reduce carbon emissions was approved by the Science Based Targets initiative for the first time in 2018. SOURCE: Essity.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From 2013, Mary Kay supported large-scale reforestation projects globally, and in 2018, celebrated the planting of its one-millionth tree. Tackling the vast scale of climate change requires collective effort, that’s why we engage in impact-focused partnerships with change-makers like the Arbor Day Foundation.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Since its inception in 2018, Arrow Electronics has supported the competition that encourages software developers and other technologists worldwide to develop solutions for issues ranging from climate change and natural disasters to water quality and waste management.

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