GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion for 2020. Some projections call for the overall market to reach about $63.5 billion in 2027, compared with a relatively modest $3.1

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE 20, October 26-30, 2020. Mon, 11/09/2020 - 17:01. Learn more about the event here: [link]. . Watch our other must-see talks here: [link]. . OUR LINKS Website: [link]. Twitter: [link]. LinkedIn: [link]. Instagram: [link]. Facebook: [link].

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

31, 2020, which it files annually with the U.S. million sellers with more than 85 million items available for sale, as of December 2020. In 2020, Etsy offset 404,439 metric tons of carbon in total and shipping alone was 303,218 metrics tons CO2 equivalent in 2020, according to the company.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Date/Time: November 12, 2020 (8-9PM ET / 5-6PM PT). Wed, 10/21/2020 - 12:45. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 11/12/2020 - 11:00. The Role of Innovation in Changing Behavior Towards a Circular Economy. Not only is this unsustainable for communities and the environment, it also makes little sense economically. Jacob Duer.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Collectively, the work of 25 cities in the Climate Challenge will reduce CO2 emissions by 74 million metric tons from 2020 through 2030, compared to business as usual.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. The company closed out 2020 by investing $3 million and hiring 150 employees for its North American headquarters in Charlotte , North Carolina. in early 2020. in early 2020. Photo courtesy of BYD.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2022

percent between 2020 and 2030. In 2021, the global electric truck market size was valued at $670 million and is projected to grow by 23.5 Here are some of the companies vying for that revenue.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2024

11 circular economy startups have emerged as $1 billion-plus companies since 2020.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2020, this began to change: Global fashion house PVH released new data on living wages across its factories and benchmarked it against the rest of its beleaguered industry to show a clean, comparable view in 2020. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Academics Climate Change 505

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The policies are: mandate new products be made with 40% post-consumer recycled plastic; cap new plastic production at 2020 levels; invest significantly in plastic waste management -- such as landfills and waste collection services; and implement a small fee on plastic packaging.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And then 2020 happened. To our immense satisfaction, we saw little carnage within corporate sustainability departments during 2020 relative to previous economic downturns, when such functions were often among the first to be downsized or jettisoned. And the year ahead certainly would bring more of the same. Or so we predicted.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2025

Grants awarded to three Habitat for Humanity affiliate organizations Affordable housing investments from the company top $200,000 in Florida since 2020 Duke Energy Florida employees volunteer to build homes in Citrus and Orange counties ST. Since 2020, Duke Energy Florida and its foundation have contributed over $200,000 in the state.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 6, 2024

The banks racked up $275 billion in loans and bond and equity underwriting to fossil fuel companies between 2020 and 2022, which represents 16.9% in 2020. Financing to the oil and gas industry fell in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic seriously depressed oil prices. of their total financing activity of $1.63

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. businesses, states and cities accelerated their action on climate in 2020. For example, investor BlackRock is asking that by the end of 2020, companies issue reports aligned with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or later. Research on climate policy is growing exponentially.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. Our observations and point of view for 2020 so far are: The pandemic has been an accelerator of trends, such as the digital transformation of the water sector, attention on lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, and the appalling underinvestment in water infrastructure in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 01:45. Thinking back to the beginning of 2020 can seem like a lifetime ago. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we are all much more resilient than we thought possible. New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. Zoé Bezpalko. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . Driving forward.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That’s what a team of sustainability leaders and engineers from the Cummins Columbus Mid-Range Engine Plant (CMEP) discovered in 2020 when they first studied whether they could stop painting their engines. Material science has evolved since Cummins engines began leaving CMEP over thirty years ago.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Thu, 10/08/2020 - 01:45. One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. . David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC. Heather Clancy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Denmark has had legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions since 2020. Claus Egede Cornelius, program director at Roskilde Technical School, Vilvorde speaks about how electric mini excavators are being used to give Danish landscaping and construction students the skills they will need on future construction sites.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The enterprise cohort prioritizes frontline, rural and Native Hawaiian social entrepreneurs addressing key leverage points identified in a 2020 Transforming Hawaii’s Food Systems Together mapping project.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Amongst the many dramatic challenges global businesses faced in 2020, one that had been simmering for years bubbled up and promised to stay at a high boil in 2021 is ESG: Environment, Social, Governance. . 5 steps boards can take to be ESG-ready for 2021. Pamela Gordon. Thu, 01/21/2021 - 01:40. Time for training.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . We were hoping [2020] would be a big year for forests and nature." (The

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00. The aviation sector is being pushed by the United Nations-led Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for Aviation (CORSIA), which had planned to set a baseline of aviation emissions for 2020 and target carbon-neutral growth from here on out. Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 00:30. 2020 has become a reckoning for American culture through the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, the ominous storms in the east and the apocalyptic wildfires of the west. How to talk about racial justice in sustainability. Victoria Gilchrist.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One of the key drivers behind the change is a decision by several large asset managers to report lower sustainable assets “in the magnitude of billions and trillions of dollars,” compared with the previous report in 2020. trillion in 2020 from US$6.6 trillion in 2020 from US$22.8 trillion in 2014. trillion in 2016.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Fri, 10/09/2020 - 00:15. Garment worker in Bangladesh, where the garment sector is expected to lose over a million jobs by December 2020, with over 70,000 workers already laid off. How to ensure circular fashion is good for people and the environment. Annelise Thim. This article originally was published in the BSR Insight.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Tue, 10/06/2020 - 00:30. Fast forward to 2020 and while "I read the package" is still the No. Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them. Suzanne Shelton. I’ve written quite a bit lately about how Americans are experiencing a "Maslow moment" right now. 1 answer, it’s slipped a bit.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The company achieved its goal to meet 100% of its operational energy needs with renewable sources in 2020, and recently said that it anticipates adding 9.8 Meta has set a target to reach net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2030, and is one of the largest corporate buyers of renewable energy.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While Microsoft has set 2030 goals to become carbon negative and to reduce Scope 3 emissions by more than half compared to 2020, the company recently reported that Scope 3 emissions in 2023 were actually more than 30% higher than in 2020, driven by the construction of datacenters, including embodied carbon in building materials as well as hardware (..)

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mon, 12/07/2020 - 00:10. Much has been said, and will be said, about 2020. In 2020, he founded ClimateVoice. How do you avoid getting distracted and stay focused on the mission? Trisa Thompson. The word "unprecedented" has been used an unprecedented number of times.

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Chief Sustainability Officer Regenerative Climate Change Sustainability Professional 471

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:02. Google searches for ‘telecommuting’ in the UK, 2016-2020. A telework transition won't slash emissions unless we make car-free lifestyles viable. Hannah Budnitz. Even before the pandemic, the proportion of people working from home was slowly but steadily increasing. How travel patterns compare.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Thu, 10/15/2020 - 00:45. IKEA will buy back used furniture in stand against 'excessive consumption'. Cecilia Keating.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to the SEC’s order, while Invesco claimed in its marketing materials from 2020 to 2022 that between 70% – 94% of its parent company’s assets under management were “ESG integrated,” these amounts included a significant proportion of assets held in passive ETFs, that did not consider ESG factors in investment decisions.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2023

That was one of the central conclusions of Corporate Knights’ latest Earth Index * analysis, which found that G20 countries as a whole were not on track to meet their stated reduction targets from 2020 to 2021.

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Net Zero Climate Change 352

3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

The number of potential future hosts will evolve over time as new sports venues are built to serve the needs of local populations, and as National Olympic Committees (NOCs) take advantage of the flexibility offered by Olympic Agenda 2020 to propose events or sports outside the main host region.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s interim decision on glyphosate, released in 2020, claims that the chemical is not likely a carcinogen, this contradicts the 2015 World Health Organization analysis of published research that determined glyphosate is carcinogenic to animals and is a probable human carcinogen. . Regulatory and legal risks.

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