3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Agricultural water pollution could become 20 times more problematic for farmers due to climate change, a new study has revealed. It is clear that we are no nearer to solving this problem and the impact of climate change demonstrates the need to treat agricultural runoff as an immediate threat.”.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

In a 2019 study , the U.S. ESG funds, including those focused on climate change mitigation, do not fare better. According to a 2019 survey , white staff represents 79 percent of the employees of U.S. are also more concerned and willing to engage on climate issues than white communities. percent white male-led.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Until she realized her centre was not included in the plan. CCAAM opened in 2019, at the University of Windsor. Chandrasekera, Charu Chandrasekera, founder and executive director of CCAAM, this was the hope she needed to keep CCAAM ’ s underfunded work alive.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

It found that European pension funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change-related investment risk has surged, with 54 percent of those surveyed now actively considering the impact of such risks in their investment allocations, compared to just 14 percent in 2019. Business as usual?

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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. During this week’s ceremony, she read from two of her powerful poems, which touched on issues of social justice and climate change.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Originally published in the SEE Impact Report 2022 To mitigate the impacts of climate change across the value chain, global packaging provider SEE drives strategic initiatives to manage and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. from the 2019 base year. between 2019 and 2022. C compared to preindustrial temperatures.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. The third is manufactured goods, which contribute primarily to pollution and climate change through heavy material- and energy-intensive industrial activities at the production level.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

You’re looking at the aftermath of 2019 floods that left millions of acres of U.S. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, soil is lost from conventionally tilled fields hundreds of times faster than it is replenished. "If The aftermath of 2019 floods that left millions of acres of U.S. Courtesy of.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You'll find her haiku from 2019 here. bend climate’s curve too? Climate Change. 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.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 22, 2022

As a group, the BRICS Earth Index for 2019 is –95%, indicating that their emissions went up by about the amount they needed go down to be on track for their long-term net-zero commitments. Both countries posted increases in all sectors in 2019 and don’t anticipate their emissions coming down until after 2030.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We If you want to know what HSBC's stance on climate change really is, look at what they fund, not their fluffy marketing," he added.

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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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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

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. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 2, 2022

After another year of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather disasters , wealthy countries are under pressure to make good on their commitment to mobilize US$100 billion a year to help poorer countries deal with climate change. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , released Feb.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2022

Human-induced climate change threatens to disrupt nature and impact the lives of billions of people—and may disproportionately impact women, according to the United Nations. When decision-making measures intended to mitigate the effects of climate change don’t equally call on women leaders, inequalities are further widened.

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GreenBiz

JULY 10, 2020

These 20 books provide insight into food access and justice in Black communities, food relief and school nutrition programs, the effects of technology on global food supply chains, the relationship between climate change and food production, and much more. Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations at the 2019 U.N.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2022

It also helps greatly that the country’s climate policies are underpinned by the world’s first climate change law, introduced in 2008, and a Climate Change Committee (CCC) that holds the government to account on its targets and progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Though the pace of cuts has accelerated.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. In the most recent three-year period, the companies in the top 20% of the SEI outperform the most prominent index of global companies, the MSCI All-World Index, by a factor of three to one.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means getting serious about advocating for a recovery plan that helps us build back better from the current pandemic, while tackling another global systemic threat: climate change. . The climate crisis is worsening, and it is playing out in real time as we grapple with COVID-19. Climate Change. Contributors.

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Corporate Knights

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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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 14, 2024

is decided at the local level,” said Holly Caggiano, a co-author of the study and a professor of climate justice and environmental planning at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Misunderstanding what Americans believe about climate change could be slowing climate action at the national level, too.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We see a growing number of investors using this information and contacting us to discuss their priority topics — most frequently climate change and diversity, equality and inclusion.". Let’s tackle usefulness: For investors, it starts with accessible data. Second, let’s look at how the types of data and disclosure is shifting.

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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. In 2015, municipal leaders set out to make their city resilient to the climate crisis.

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3BL Media

MARCH 8, 2024

How the dairy industry is working to combat climate change Two dairy cooperatives leading the herd The 11,500 family farm members of Dairy Farmers of America ( DFA ) have made sustainability a top priority. In 2019, Bar-Way became one of the first farms to legally grow hemp in Massachusetts.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

He consults on leading sustainable change through Alexander & Associates and climate change action through Plan C Advisors. Dawn Rittenhouse was director of sustainable development for the DuPont Company from 1998 to 2019. Use events to strengthen the climate narrative: The issue for me is the climate crisis.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 27, 2022

A year later, America’s largest poultry producer, Tyson Foods, released its own line of fully plant-based products to take advantage of this rapidly growing food segment (after a failed attempt at selling consumers on blended animal and plant protein products in 2019).

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2022

The window to take action on climate change is closing. The global scientific community now has the official backing of hundreds of government and business leaders who agree that we must transition to a net-zero-carbon economy, and yet getting strong climate regulations in place has proven a challenge.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. 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. Companies now have a materials mission.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Reck presented her findings on climate change to three top executives at GM’s corporate headquarters, two of whom would later become CEO. . Even after knowing the threat of climate change, they refused to alter their business plans or lobbying strategies – because it could affect their bottom lines. billion in 2019.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 8, 2024

So they’re a really great way to bring people in to start that conversation about climate change,” says Jennifer Carman, one of the study’s authors and a deputy research manager with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. “Games create engaging and immersive worlds.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

According to Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the new cap-and-trade system was designed to recognize top-performing companies, while incentivizing higher emitters to invest in cleaner production processes.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 7, 2024

After years of protest from First Nations and climate activists, the Royal Bank of Canada has agreed to an audit of its Indigenous and racial community business practices, and disclosure of key climate change data. RBC led a syndicate of banks in 2019 providing $6.1 And then they give you 60 seconds to speak on it.”

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2022

In response to heavy lobbying by institutional shareholders who see climate change as an existential risk, some 25% of U.S. As businesses struggle to meet the United Nations’ net-zero goals, more companies are realizing that their success will hinge on tying executives’ compensation packages to achieving sustainability targets.

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ESG Today

APRIL 22, 2025

DiNapoli said: Climate change poses a real threat to our investments, but the actions announced today will help position the Fund to address those risks and seize on opportunities generated as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy. To date, the fund has deployed more than $26.5 billion towards its $40 billion target.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and water pollution dominate the list of issues that experts say are the most urgent — these are all considered more urgent than they were in 2019 — the perceived urgency of social issues is also on the rise.

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