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CSIRO says wind and solar much cheaper than nuclear, even with added integration costs

Renew Economy

CSIRO's GenCost report updated to include near term transmission costs for wind and solar, and finds that the case for nuclear has been blown out of the water by the collapse of US SMR project. The post CSIRO says wind and solar much cheaper than nuclear, even with added integration costs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Nature tech got $1.6 billion in VC funding last year. It's poised to take off in 2024

GreenBiz

Get ready to see more tech innovations that aim to protect, restore, measure and report on nature.

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Tasmania wind farm ditches bird radar for new technology to avoid eagle collisions

Renew Economy

Tasmania wind farm dumps its original "bird radar" and upgrades it to a more sophisticated model after disappointing results in past year. The post Tasmania wind farm ditches bird radar for new technology to avoid eagle collisions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Engaging stakeholders can help deliver sustainability strategy, create value for the company

GreenBiz

Businesses must map and assess the importance and influence of stakeholder groups to implement their sustainability goals.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Six of “world’s largest” green hydrogen projects shortlisted for headstart funding

Renew Economy

Six projects totalling more than 3.5GW of hydrogen electrolyser capacity shortlisted for Australia's Hydrogen Headstart program, but Fortescue projects a notable absentee. The post Six of “world’s largest” green hydrogen projects shortlisted for headstart funding appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The year in review: progress in sustainable business, but too little and too slow

GreenBiz

Five themes stood out in 2023: decarbonization, finance, plastic waste, ESG, and AI.

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Will corporate climate coalitions deliver? A progress report on 6 buyer groups

GreenBiz

More companies are joining alliances to procure their way to lower emissions. We assessed the progress of 6 of the biggest.

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New player in battery storage market cuts its teeth with first Australian connection deal

Renew Economy

US-based Powin obtains its first GPS connection agreement for a battery project in Australia - no mean feat for suppliers not used to the strict local requirements. The post New player in battery storage market cuts its teeth with first Australian connection deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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2023 was the year that…

GreenBiz

Five trends and themes from the year just ending.

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Solar Insiders Podcast: Can panels, farmers and sheep get along?

Renew Economy

As conservative media and politicians pit farmers against renewables, we talk to a sheep grazier who is building Tasmania's first large-scale solar project. The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Can panels, farmers and sheep get along? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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2023 Moskowitz Prize Awarded To Research Measuring Financial Impact of Biodiversity Loss — Plus Honorable Mention Studies

3BL Media

December 20, 2023 /3BL/ - From a field of 99 submitted papers, Biodiversity Risk was selected as the winner of the 2023 Moskowitz Prize at Northwestern University. The award, which recognizes high-impact research in sustainable finance, was presented to Stefano Giglio (Yale School of Management), Theresa Kuchler (NYU Stern), Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern), and Xuran Zeng (NYU Stern).

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Mind the gap: Will Penny Sharpe use her new powers to force Eraring to stay open?

Renew Economy

Penny Sharpe has given herself new powers to force the Eraring coal plant to stay open. Will she use them? AEMO's latest energy security report says there might be a gap, but maybe not. The post Mind the gap: Will Penny Sharpe use her new powers to force Eraring to stay open? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Look out Santa, Kansas City Chiefs' and Philadelphia Eagles Fans Are Getting the Cookies This Year

3BL Media

The NFL’s Christmas day football games are sure to be filled with chills and thrills, but this year at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium (home of the Kansas City Chiefs) and Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Philadelphia Eagles), the air will be filled with the sweet scent of mom’s cookies. Mama Kelce’s chocolate chip cookies, to be exact. Donna Kelce, the mother of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Eagles center Jason Kelce, is bringing her famed chocolate chip cookie recipe to football fans a

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New-business building: Six cybersecurity and digital beliefs that can create risk

McKinsey Sustainabilty

In the race to build new businesses, decision makers often overlook risk management and cybersecurity. We have identified six misconceptions that executives often bring to the table.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Expanding Horizons: MOSAIC’s Vision for Cultural Diversity at Lenovo

3BL Media

In an increasingly integrated world, cultural diversity is more than a matter of fact: it is a powerful force that shapes societies, workplaces, and day-to-day human experiences. To mark International Day for Tolerance on November 16th, we spoke with members of Lenovo EMEA’s champions of cultural diversity and tolerance, the MOSAIC Employee Resource Group (ERG), about the importance of embracing differences.

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An interview with Pahala Mansury: Opportunities in sustainable energy transition in Indonesia

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Indonesia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs reflects on the nation’s clean energy transition and how collaboration could help achieve energy security in ASEAN.

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Sleigh Your Competition: Submit Your Sustainable Solutions for E+E Leader Awards

3BL Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Deadline Approaching: E+E Leader Awards Consumer & Residential Products Category BLAIRSVILLE, Ga., December 20, 2023 /3BL/ - The Environment+Energy Leader Awards , a prestigious annual recognition program, is now inviting entries in the "Consumer & Residential Products" category. This Award category specifically highlights groundbreaking and environmentally friendly consumer-facing and residential products that span a range of applications, including cleaning produc

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Building a sales engine: Five insights to accelerate your start-up

McKinsey Sustainabilty

How do you find and keep the best salespeople at a start-up? Dominikus Kirchhoff, former managing director at Choco, discusses his recipe for doing just that.

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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Chemours Washington Works Continues To Advance Environmental Leadership

3BL Media

The Chemours Washington Works site in Washington, West Virginia, may look like a large industrial complex, but it’s an important enabler for industries critical to local prosperity and global progress – from the cell phone in your hand and the computer you used to electric vehicles. Chemours is the only United States manufacturer of an advanced material called perfluoroalkoxy, or PFA for short.

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Navigating geopolitics with Richard Haass

McKinsey Sustainabilty

CEOs need to grapple not only with geopolitical volatility but potential domestic instability, says the career US diplomat.

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Decarbonization: The Key To Transform and Grow the Cable Industry

3BL Media

The energy industry is undergoing a drastic change in the way it operates due to an ever-growing demand for renewables and low-carbon solutions to achieve net zero by 2050. Our teams across the globe are working on accelerating investments in transformative next-generation technologies to quickly transition towards energy efficiency in the power transmission market.

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Is Latin America and the Caribbean Really Just 1% Circular?: A New Report Highlights the Hidden Role of Informal Workers in the Circular Economy

James Militzer

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is 1% circular — far below the global average of 7.2%. This means that of all the materials flowing through the region’s economy, less than 1% re-enter the economy for a second life through repair, reuse, recycling or other means. This rather alarming number is a key finding of the “ Circularity Gap Report Latin America and the Caribbean ,” which we at Circle Economy Foundation recently released.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Albertsons Companies Celebrates International Human Solidarity Day

3BL Media

On this International Human Solidarity Day – a day to celebrate our unity in #diversity – Albertsons Companies is reminded of our company’s commitment to building #belonging and putting people first. By embracing our common humanity and treating everyone with courtesy, dignity and respect, we are a better able to listen and value different perspectives… one conversation at a time… one connection made with each other… one more action taken in solidarity.

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EU Council Agrees on Proposal to Regulate ESG Ratings Providers

ESG Today

The European Council announced today that it has reached an agreement on a proposal to regulate ESG ratings providers, bringing the providers under the authorization of European markets regulator ESMA, with new rules to increase transparency into the methodologies and models used by the providers, and to address the risk of conflicts of interest. Calls to regulate the ESG ratings sector have increased in recent years, as investors increasingly integrate ESG considerations into the investment pro

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Adventure Awaits Wyoming Youth in Outdoor Classroom

3BL Media

Science is cool anywhere, but nothing beats science outside of the classroom. “We know by and large that kids just aren’t getting outside enough,” says Colleen Burridge, AmeriCorps director at The Science Zone , which promotes informal science education across the state of Wyoming. “It’s more than just pushing their comfort level of being in the outdoors—we’re teaching them life lessons of pushing past limits of what they originally thought they could do.

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Rise of archery in Andes Mountains dated to 5,000 years ago -- earlier than previous research

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

Focusing on the Lake Titicaca Basin in the Andes mountains, anthropologists found through analysis of 1,179 projectile points that the rise of archery technology dates to around 5,000 years ago. Previous research held that archery in the Andes emerged around 3,000 years ago. The new research from UC Davis indicates that the adoption of bow-and-arrow technology coincided with both the expansion of exchange networks and the growing tendency for people to reside in villages.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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How To Make Sustainability Part of Your Holiday Season

3BL Media

The holidays are here again. For many of us, this time of year means gifts, gatherings, eating and good memories as we celebrate with friends and family. The trouble is, all that extra shopping, cooking and travel can add up to a big impact on the planet. All over the world, waste increases during the holiday season. Stanford University found that Americans generate an extra 1 million tons of waste every week between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.

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Where to play in CPG: A multi-lens approach to beat the market

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Machine learning can help Latin American consumer packaged goods players better understand consumers, categories, competitors, and capabilities—and increase the odds of outperformance year after year.

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Corporate Governance at Alkermes

3BL Media

Originally published in Alkermes September 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report Board of Directors Our Board is currently comprised of eleven members, each of whom has a term expiring at the Company’s 2024 annual general meeting of shareholders. Board Declassification Ongoing In June 2021, after considering feedback from certain of our shareholders, we asked our shareholders to approve, and our shareholders approved, certain amendments to our Articles of Association that serve to declassify our

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Microsoft Signs Deal to Remove up to 3 Million Tons of Carbon Through U.S. Forest Project

ESG Today

Microsoft and nature-based carbon removal startup Chestnut Carbon announced today a 15-year offtake agreement, with Chestnut providing Microsoft with potentially more than 3 million tons of nature based credits from its U.S.-based afforestation project. The deal includes the removal of 362,000 tons of carbon in its first phase, and up to 2.7 million tons in subsequent phases, which would mark one of the largest-ever nature-based carbon removal offtake agreements globally.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.