3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We updated our baseline in 2022 as we achieved our most recent reduction target after previously meeting two earlier goals. In calendar year 2023, we reduced our electrical energy consumption by 7.14% from 2022 levels, with a total consumption of 25,833,192 kWh.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2022, just 1.2 percent of Starbucks’ drinks were sold in reusable containers.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 23, 2025

Exxon Mobil has killed its Gippsland carbon capture and storage project running since 2022, but won't explain why. The post Exxon abandons Gippsland basin CCS project, but doesn’t say why appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

trillion of fossil fuel subsidies in 2022, and Australia gets a mixed review. Latest data shows that G20 countries alone provided $A1.7 The post Annual global fossil fuel subsidies jump to $1.7 trillion – just in the G20 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

JULY 8, 2024

Between 2014-2022, regulated gas networks made $1.8 billion in supernormal profits, on top of their $2 billion profit allowance. What does this mean for consumers? The post Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The KPMG study found that companies have been increasingly addressing this requirement, with 69% of G250 companies and 54% of N100s publishing a sustainability assurance report in 2024, compared with 63% and 47% in 2022. Among N100 companies, 46% have dedicated sustainability leaders, up from 34% in 2022.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million more people were employed in clean energy in 2022 than in 2019, according to the IEA. But that's not enough.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

At VERGE 2022, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

China installed 125GW of new wind and solar capacity in 2022, and now generates enough wind and solar to meet demands of every home, but not industry. The post China now has enough wind and solar to power every home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Until 2022, South Korea had the dominating share in this market. Korean battery powerhouses like LG Energy Solutions together with its parent company LG Chem, and Samsung SDI have dominated this tier, together accounting for 44% of total sustainable revenue in 2022.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2022, it was pushing 250. million in 2022 (the year the report measured), which is an increase of 4.4% The average highest-paid CEOs in 2022 made 246 times more than the average worker, or $7,162 an hour, the CCPA reports. In 2022, the average Mark made $18.5 million in 2022. from the previous year.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Solar generation has increased at an average rate of 44% a year in the US between 2009 to 2022 – and new data shows it's on track to overtake hydro on the grid. The post Solar generation to surpass hydropower in the US in 2024 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

The growth in renewables over the past year has had a major impact on Australia's main electricity grid, with wholesale prices tumbling from their 2022 peaks, and grid demand and coal output sent to record lows. The post Solar behind big price falls as grid demand and coal power pushed to record lows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Solar and wind costs have fallen by up to 90 pct in last 12 years, and even in 2022 huge growth in China meant that global average costs remained stable. The post “Seismic shift:” Energy crisis helped wind and solar stretch cost advantage over fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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MARCH 18, 2024

Power sector emissions were down a whopping 19% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to a recent report by Ember, an independent energy think tank. “The EU’s power sector is in the middle of a monumental shift,” says Sarah Brown, Ember’s Europe program director. Solar grew by 17% in 2023 and 29% during the energy crisis of 2022.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 21, 2025

Following two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in West Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality in less than a year. The spike in temperatures caused the precipitation to fall as rain instead of snow.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation committed a record amount of finance to renewables and grid projects in 2022-23, but says the task ahead is huge. The post Bigger and faster: CEFC says more than $120 billion needed to decarbonise the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2022

Date/Time: January 13, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Reducing emissions across all sectors is critical if we are to combat climate change. With the passage of the infrastructure bill and the urgent need to improve and expand our cities, it’s critical that we build in a way that is both resilient and sustainable.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Backstone launched BETP IV in 2022, and at $5.6 In 2022, Blackstone said that it sees an opportunity to invest an estimated $100 billion in energy transition and climate change solutions projects over the next decade. billion the fund is approximately 33% larger than its predecessor vehicle.

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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% of total financing in 2022, up from 15.5% of their total financing activity of $1.63 trillion, states the report by InfluenceMap , a global corporate research think tank based in London.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Armed with the primary data on our palm oil footprint coupled with our new sustainability risk assessment tool, we established our palm baseline for 2022. In calendar year 2022, we used approximately 26.5k metric tons of palm oil. To learn more, check out our 2023 ESG report at bbwinc.com.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

million animals were reportedly used  in research, teaching and testing in Canada in 2022. The Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods (CCAAM) in Windsor quietly closed its doors in May and officially shuttered operations in October. Now Canada risks falling short on its ambitious goals. More than  3.5

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

of Ford’s revenue came from manufacturing electric vehicles in 2022, it poured more than US$2.1 of its revenue from sustainable products in 2022. More than any other major car company in 2022, VW channelled an impressive 38.4% Listening,” he explained, “is how we learn.” Though just 3.5% of investments (more than US$8.3

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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2025

Cannon Falls, Minnesota In August 2022, the Cannon Falls manufacturing facility completed the installation of a closed-loop water recirculation system, with full operation beginning in September 2022. To further these efforts, the site is planning to install waterless urinals in restrooms.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

February 18, 2025 /3BL/ - With all 10 of Duke Energy Floridas Clean Energy Connection solar energy sites now fully operational, the company is celebrating delivering on its commitment part of a 2020 filing with the Florida Public Service Commission to provide nearly 750 megawatts of solar generation in Florida from 2022 to 2024.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 14, 2025

The study reveals striking findings: between 2000 and 2022, the US traded almost 30,000 wild species and over 2.85 Using 22 years of LEMIS data, a recent study explores the dimensions of wildlife trade and obtain one of the most comprehensive overviews to date.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

In addition to using advanced data analytics and AI tools, US SIF surveyed more than 250 doubling responses to the 2022 survey and found that addressing climate change and the clean energy transition were top priorities for respondents.

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3BL Media

MAY 30, 2024

In December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2022-2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032). This whitepaper provides technical processes on endangered languages digitization to be shared globally across the industry. The loss of language diversity is an urgent issue.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We also continued to conserve and optimize energy usage at our facilities using enterprise-wide operational best practices we developed in 2022. This work is giving us insight into where these tactics can contribute to an overall emissions reduction strategy and target facility- and region-specific projects.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At the end of 2022, more than 90% of our stores were donating food on at least a weekly basis, resulting in the donation of the equivalent of more than 65 million meals to Feeding America partners. We have implemented innovative new systems to order and produce the correct amount and assortment of products for our customers.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 13, 2025

In 2022, the continent received a paltry 2% of global clean energy investment, despite having some of the worlds most promising solar and wind potential. Meanwhile, Kenyas geothermal sector quietly powers more than 40% of the countrys electricity. Despite the momentum, Africa remains critically underfunded in its energy transition.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2025

22 (9), 6087-6101 (2022). DOI:10.5194/acp-22-6087-2022. Projections of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions and the resulting global warming based on recent trends in observed abundances and current policies. Velders, G. & Ramanathan, V. The role of HFCs in mitigating 21st century climate change. 13 (12), 6083-6089 (2013).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The event featured rising stars like Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu and Korean figure skater You Young who won gold at Lausanne 2020 before competing as elite athletes at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. In the 2022-23 period alone, 1,905 schoolchildren took part in 47 meetings with these inspiring champions.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This is all the more surprising it occurred during a period when oil and gas stocks enjoyed a bull run following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Had a divestment and reinvestment strategy been implemented at the start of the period, total returns would have increased by an average of 10.3%, equating to an additional US$4.6 billion in assets.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The United Nations (UN) Global E-waste Monitor 2024 reports that a record 62 million tonnes of e-waste was produced in 2022 Up 82% from 2010; on track to raise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Coal is by far the largest source of energy-based CO2 emissions globally, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), accounting for 45% of emissions from fuel combustion in 2022, ahead of oil at 33%. Coal also remains one of the top sources of energy supply globally, at 28% of supply in 2022, slightly behind oil at 30%.

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