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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

CLP's private-equity Closed Loop Leadership Fund , launched in 2018, counts Nestlé, Microsoft and Nuveen among its investors.). "I Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . And in terms of how we integrate those with the rest of the decision process.

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Scaling Progress: The International Living Future Institute Announces Strategic Collaboration With Four Major Companies To Advance Carbon Verification in Buildings

3BL Media

Certified buildings are third-party verified after a 12-month performance period to be energy efficient, combustion-free (or actively phasing out combustion), powered by renewables, and built with lower embodied carbon than typical buildings.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Julien Beaulieu 29, Gatineau, QC law lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke Almost half the world’s largest corporations have pledged to go net-zero, but far too many of them are “climate-washing,” Julien Beaulieu says. Robert Raynor 27, Toronto net-zero coordinator, TAS Toronto, like many Canadian cities, is in a housing crisis.

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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

Complementing its pledge towards Operational Net Zero by 2030, CDL achieved a 24% reduction in carbon emissions intensity in the year under review (January to December 2022) from base-year 2016. CDL achieved a 10% reduction in total operational carbon emissions across all its business operations in Singapore compared to 2021.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

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 Raised by two environmentalists, she’s dedicated to ensuring women have equal opportunity to succeed in our net-zero future. that excites you and is worth solving.”.

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GCSHES – Education Program – Meet Our Speakers

Green Technology

Nick Brown Education Sessions: What’s New for 2025 in the Energy Code Embodied Carbon and CALGreen Nick Brown is President of Build Smart Group, an independent energy consultancy focused on California’s residential and nonresidential energy modeling, energy code, and building performance.