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Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year

Envirotec Magazine

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% in just two years from 92.8 billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. to 92 billion tonnes[1].

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

Jordan play a brilliant Bryan Stevenson in the 2019 film Just Mercy , which is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. of academic papers expressing a view on human-caused climate change agreed that it was real, and that humans were the cause. I recently watched Michael B.

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Join a B Corp Network to Build Collaboration and Work Toward a More Inclusive Economy

B the Change

Learn more below about B Academics, BIPOC Network, B Tourism, B EOS Network, HR Professionals, U.S. & B Academics aims to bridge the gap between academia and the B Corp community while building awareness and creating opportunities for collaboration and innovation, Thomas says. B The Change reached out to U.S.

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Making the Global B Corp Movement Bloom in Korea and Beyond

Stanford Social Innovation

The third limiting factor relates to the ambiguity of B Lab Korea’s (and other local B Lab’s) strategy and role, resource constraints, and lack of capability—an issue connected to the seemingly lacking global strategy. Other Considerations. Collaboration with academia offers a way forward.

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AI Ethics Are in Danger. Funding Independent Research Could Help

Stanford Social Innovation

These much larger models, however, have goals as broad and complex as “meaningfully answering any possible text question” and require resources far out of reach of all but the most well-funded corporate institutions and academic labs. One such model is the large language model, or LLM.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Outside of the academic realm, there is emerging c onsensus that, at the enterprise level, a new paradigm should be embraced. In August of 2019, 181 CEOs of America’s largest corporations committed to a purpose driven, multi-stakeholder approach to long-term value creation.

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Investing in the EV Revolution

Chris Hall

In 2021, almost one in ten global car sales were electric, according to the International Energy Agency , which means EVs have quadrupled their market share since 2019. Across the globe, electric vehicle (EV) sales are continuing to break records and smash expectations. Dynamic market expansion.