GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the next 10 years — from $28 billion in 2019 to $80 billion in 2029 — in a U.S. In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did. The market value of this sector reached $2 billion in 2019.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019. After all, the $41 million ExxonMobil spent on climate lobbying in 2019 ( according to InfluenceMap ) exceeds the entire $37 million annual operating budget ( 2019 ) of Greenpeace USA. Four firms receive an A while 26 received an F.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. By 2019, the company counted more than a billion total rides, with 2 million annual drivers in more than 650 U.S.

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Renew Economy

MAY 16, 2023

Queensland may be trying to revive a rule change killed by the Supreme Court in 2019, to have electricians install all solar panels in the state. The post Queensland seeks to change rules so only electricians can install solar, fix EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Meet the fellows for 2019 and 2020. Here are the 2019-2020 fellows. is a fourth-generation black farmer and the founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association. More in this Guardian feature. The Castanea Fellowship is a two-year program for diverse leaders working for a racially just food system.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

million jobs since 2019, according to the second annual World Energy Employment report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in November. That puts the total number of jobs in clean energy at 35 million in 2022, compared to just 32 million in oil, gas and coal. million fewer jobs than it did in 2019.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2021

So far the program, approved by the Oregon Public Utilities Commission in 2019, has inked deals for 300 megawatts (MW) of new capacity, with hopes to expand soon. In May 2019, PGE launched the first GFI offering: access to the energy from a new 162-MW solar facility, to be built in Gilliam County, Oregon. Credit: Avangrid Renewables.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

According to a Prepared Foods report , 44 new fermentation companies launched in late 2019 and early 2020, a 91 percent increase compared to 2018. . Even as COVID-19 upended global markets, alternative protein companies focusing on fermentation raised $435 million in venture capital by July, 58 percent more than in 2019.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

With about $9 billion in annual revenue in 2019, AGCO is behind some of the best-known global brands in tractors, combine harvesters, balers and other farm equipment, including Massey-Ferguson, Fendt, Challenger and Valtra. . It's supposed to deliver the first models in fall 2021 and claims "hundreds" of pre-orders.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more. . The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its 2019 sustainability report , for example, features a menu of links to a comprehensive data resource and all reporting frameworks from every page of its digital report. For example, MetLife, in its 2019 sustainability report , disclosed its diversity (gender and ethnicity) data against key industry benchmarks by Deloitte and McKinsey.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You'll find her haiku from 2019 here. Tue, 12/29/2020 - 01:00. Editor's note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. Rise before the Surprise. Leaders gather for. the first and last time in year. of shelter-in-place. Learning on the Job. Could ways to flatten.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers. According to a 2019 Rocky Mountain Institute report, full-scale hydrogen-based steel production would cost 20 to 30 percent more than conventional steel-making processes.

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GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Before the formal inductions, attendees were also treated to a performance by Awa Ndiaye , a spoken word poet and 2019 GreenBiz Emerging Leader who is building a career in environmental management. Elaine Hsieh , co-founder, head of corporate partnerships and marketing, Third Derivative.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

traded stocks, were filled by women in 2019, up from just 12 percent in 2008 — racial diversity has not. . According to the 2019 Registry of Corporate Directors published by Black Enterprise magazine, there were just over 300 African-American board members among S&P 500 companies, out of nearly 4,500 board seats overall.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

In addition to the net-zero goal, the e-commerce site has set two science-based targets using a baseline year of 2019, which are pending validation from the SBT i. Back in 2019, Etsy launched its first initiative focused on reducing the carbon emissions of its marketplace by introducing carbon offset shipping.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

In 2019, it was recorded at a little under $160 billion, a projected compound annual growth rate of 2.5 In 2019 , Cargill partnered with InnovaFeed, a startup focusing on bringing plant-based and insect proteins to animal and fish feeds. Cargill is focusing on switching to feed ingredients that have less of a carbon footprint.

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MARCH 2, 2023

That puts us about where we were in 2019, with the ‘say–do’ gap persisting even as the clock ticks down for countries to hit their 2030 targets,” says Torrie. But in reality, emissions rebounded in 2021 and grew again in 2022 by 0.9%, reaching an all-time high of more than 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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APRIL 21, 2022

In 2019, fossil fuels accounted for about 70% of total energy generation. Japan’s energy plan is looking to raise the percentage of electricity generated through renewable energy in 2030 to between 36% and 38% (up from 18% in 2019).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC, which provided $87 billion in financing to top fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement and nearly $8 billion in loans and underwriting to 29 companies developing coal plants between 2017 and Q3 2019, has faced growing pressure from shareholders to cease financing companies heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Last year around this time, I focused on digital technology solutions for water with this essay, " 2019: The Year Analog Solutions Died." The insights on digital transformation from 2019 papers and research came to the forefront (" IWA Digital Transformation " and " The Technology Fallacy "). What I learned about water in 2020.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2023

As of 2019, Stockholm had cut its annual GHG emissions almost in half from 1990 levels. Since 2019, all trams, subway trains and many buses have been running on electricity, and more than 75% of the commercial canal boats are electric. The city has high ambitions to be carbon neutral by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

That same study shows, however, that in 2020, 45 percent of directors say that ESG issues are a regular part of the board’s agenda, which demonstrates an increase from 34 percent in 2019. Time for training. How can boards (public and private) improve their efficacy in ESG oversight for long-term value?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Mars also generated plenty of headlines in 2020 with its claim of a "deforestation-free palm oil supply chain," an initiative related to the Palm Positive Plan it adopted in September 2019.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

"Each year, approximately 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) are produced, equivalent in weight to all commercial aircraft ever built; only 20 percent is formally recycled," write the authors of a report published by the World Economic Forum in 2019. "If For comparison, the U.S.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Motorola Solutions Foundation has been a proud partner since 2019, donating more than $700K to help support and amplify the work that they do to connect first responders with resources for healing and recovery, and offer support to their families. First H.E.L.P.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Wijdoogen spent several years as chief sustainability officer at the Dutch passenger train operator NS, leaving in 2019 to start Sustainability University Foundation, a platform she co-founded to empower sustainability professionals through peer-to-peer learning and research.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since 2019, the award has been honoring AMTs at American who exhibit the qualities of professional AMTs, strive to uphold the highest standards in aircraft maintenance and support and promote the profession.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. In the 2019 scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency. Catherine Nabukalu.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

The MCI was launched in 2019 in partnership with GreenBiz, with a goal to accelerate action and impact by driving a race to the top. 2019 was a "baseline year," which gave us the grounding from which to track the efforts and progress of leading corporations as we all make our way through the next decisive decade.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company actually increased waste to landfill by 16 percent through 2019 but is has pledged to focus more closely on "a strong byproducts plan, product donation strategy and improved forecasting.". Through 2019, it has achieved 70 percent.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

In fact, in analyzing corporate transcripts over time, the analysts found conversations around water — including both extreme weather and clean water and sanitation — already have increased, with mentions doubling over the last 15 years and jumping 43 percent from 2019 to 2020.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

billion last year, more than three times the level of 2019. The company's sales of vegetarian and plant-based items grew by more than $222 million in 2019 and leaped by 40 percent in the first half of 2020. "In Shellfish are the specialty of New Wave Foods, which Tyson Ventures, chicken giant Tyson's VC arm, backed in 2019.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA breaks down energy employment statistics by sector, region, and value chain using data from 2019—the most recent year for which comprehensive numbers are available. Overall, the energy sector employed more than 65 million people in 2019, roughly 2% of the entire global work force. Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

In a 2019 study , the U.S. According to a 2019 survey , white staff represents 79 percent of the employees of U.S. Needless to say, investment managers and financial advisers are powerful. And as is the case with many axes of power, financial professionals across asset classes are disproportionately male and white.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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