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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

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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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration.

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CDL first in Southeast Asia to apply two-pillar ESG disclosure framework in its 16th Intergrated Sustainability Report – Zeros in on Positive Impact and Value

Corporate Knights

Having embraced sustainability in our business for nearly three decades, we have remained steadfast in achieving a triple bottom line so as to generate positive environmental and social impact while achieving sustained growth for our investors. C emissions reduction target of 58.8%

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. In third place is Hydro-Québec, which was the top company in 2022, 2021 and 2018. Especially if they want to succeed long-term.

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Sustainability Jargon Dictionary

Carlos Sanchez

Since this jargon can be a bit overwhelming, I decided to create this Sustainability Jargon Dictionary to allow you to talk to other people about Climate Change and other sustainability topics in a language they can understand. Climate change. Climate Change – An alteration in global climate patterns.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Meg Wilcox. Charlotte Bande, 29. Jesse Klein.

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