GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. They called it the Blue New Deal. Its focus: an ocean-based blue economy.
Impact Alpha
JULY 15, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Rising awareness of the value of gender and diversity in business has led to a spike in venture funds led by women, investing in female founders or backing solutions for women. In its latest report, Project Sage, a project of Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Suzanne Biegel, tallies 138 “gender-lens” funds. The post Surge in funds investing in and for the benefit of women appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Daniel Burrus
JULY 15, 2020
Complacency is often mistaken for stability, the feeling you’ve “made it” and now you can sit back and revel in what you’ve built. However, that ideology carries far more pitfalls than we realize. Complacency is even more detrimental in the environment we live in today, dominated by exponential digital disruption. It’s essential to eliminate complacency with both an anticipatory mindset and a willingness to act on the abundant opportunities ahead.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 30, 2020
According to data released by the Environment Agency on 22 July, a record 40,653 tonnes of aluminium packaging were collected for recycling in Q2 2020. This indicates that 76,933 tonnes were collected for recycling in the first half of the year – a significant increase of 52% compared to the same period in 2019 (50,744). Aluminium packaging collected through kerbside, bring and on-the-go systems increased by 37% during the first half of the year (53,312 in 2020, compared to 38,882 in 2019), whil
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.
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 27, 2020
Sunway University, University College Dublin, and the SDG Academy, an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), are delighted to announce two new, global, fully Online Master’s Programs in Sustainable Development. Our world faces multiple challenges, some new and many enduring, including pandemics, rising global temperatures, unemployment, and inequality.
Sense and Sustainability
JULY 30, 2020
Editor’s note: This article was first published on the Global Solutions blog. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. Since economy and society are embedded in the natural environment, there is an inseparable connection between environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. Awareness of environmental problems and the effects of our daily consumption of products such as coffee is an important requirement for the recoupling of economic and social progress.
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Impact Alpha
JULY 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 10 – The movement for racial justice in the criminal justice system has cast a spotlight as well on systemic and anti-Black racism in finance. Long before the protests, ImpactAlpha has featured Agents of Impact and New Revivalists doing the work of changing assumptions, practices and power structures within finance and investing. They.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 29, 2020
Ford Motor Company is known for gems such as the GT500, burly trucks like the F-250 Super Duty, and daily drivers such as the Ford Escape with its storage capacity and car-like gas mileage. On a more technologically innovative front, Ford even recently moved into the fully electric vehicle market with the debut of its Mach-E SUV, a similar design to the Tesla Model X.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 29, 2020
The EU Environment Sub-Committee has stressed the benefits of the level playing field in future relationship negotiations. Peers urge compromise to secure a ‘level playing field’. Lack of trust is the biggest barrier to a breakthrough on the environment and climate change parts of an agreement between Britain and Brussels, a group of Peers has warned.
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 30, 2020
Normal 0 false false false ES X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false ES X-NONE X-NONE The Municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia was presented to the public on Monday, July 27 during the 2020 Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE2020). The publication assesses development in each of Bolivia’s 339 municipalities, based on more than 60 different indicators that measure various dimensions of sustainable development, based on the 2030 Agenda.
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
Sense and Sustainability
JULY 28, 2020
What makes some infrastructure green and other infrastructure grey? For planners, engineers, and researchers focused on cities and sustainability, green infrastructure a buzzword that is often championed, but equally difficult to define. In the context of water management, Grey Infrastructure is the rigid pipe network, concrete, and treatment facilities that have allowed cities to grow ever larger while capturing and conveying water from storms and the waste stream away from concentrated populat
GreenBiz
JULY 15, 2020
Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. .
Impact Alpha
JULY 30, 2020
As impact investors who have launched a new “gender-justice” impact investment fund, CARE wants to make it clear: we seek deep systems change. CARE— alongside its partners, Bamboo Capital Partners and International Trade Centre’s SheTrades Initiative — have designed the CARE-SheTrades Impact Fund with hopes of moving beyond counting women to tackling root causes of.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 8, 2020
While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. During the Coronavirus pandemic, all industries were disrupted in one way or another, many having to close their doors for the time being and forfeit growth and profits they make from in-person customers.
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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.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
Plans for a Category 1 animal by-product processing facility at the renewable energy and recycling site of SecAnim in Widnes, Cheshire were announced in late July. The firm is a provider of safe and secure collection and disposal services to the farming and meat production sectors, and the “world-first” operation completes a two-stage site regeneration plan, supported by a capital investment of more than £15 million, says the firm.
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 28, 2020
Two years after the publication of the first SDGs City Index in Italy, SDSN Italia and Fondazione Eni Enrico Matte i have released new data, updated to 2020. The new Report provides not only a screenshot of Italian cities’ distance to the targets of the 2030 Agenda, but also a comparison, where possible, among performances over a two-year timeframe.
Sense and Sustainability
JULY 23, 2020
Decades of research have clearly demonstrated the impact of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) on building occupants. The health and well-being of building users are linked to the atmosphere around them, from inadequate ventilation to material off-gassing. In this age of virus hyper-awareness, the role of IAQ mitigation of airborne bioaerosols, like COVID-19, has yet to be explored.
GreenBiz
JULY 8, 2020
Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer.
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
Impact Alpha
JULY 8, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 8 – Eight small grants from the $14 million Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing suggest the outlines of a 2021 policy agenda, no matter who wins the November U.S. election. New definitions of fiduciary duty. Standards for quality jobs. Expansion of capital for community development financial institutions, or CDFIs. “Impact investing has.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 1, 2020
Traditionally, the concept of success through collaboration in the business world has been focused on eliminating competition to find success in ways that benefit the industry the competitors share. However, during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, success through collaboration was redefined when two tech giants, Apple and Google, collaborated on contact tracing technology in an effort to combat the virus in their own way and simultaneously save lives.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste Ltd. Joseph Doherty, MD of Re-Gen Waste, which provides materials recovery facilities for Council waste in the UK, has questioned the wisdom of Government plans to scrap the lower rate of fuel duty on red diesel from April 2022, which he says will add an extra £200,000 per annum cost to his company’s fuel bill. The changes to the tax treatment of red diesel will lead to a number of impacts on his firm’s profitability, he suggested, the most immediate being in
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 23, 2020
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On July 16, 2020, the SDSN, Foresight4Food, IFAD, and APRA co-hosted the first of a series of eDialogues on the future of small-scale farming. The goal of the series is to present the latest thinking of experts working on the front lines to support small-scale agriculture, and this first session gave an overview of the challenges smallholders face and opportunities for improvement in yields and standards of living.
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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
MSCI
JULY 20, 2020
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on how companies manage cash flows and liquidity. Bond investors face the possibility of increased leverage, rating downgrades and defaults. Can factors and ESG metrics shed light on these risks?
GreenBiz
JULY 12, 2020
GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies? Joel Makower. Sun, 07/12/2020 - 17:56. For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.
Impact Alpha
JULY 14, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 14 – A decade ago, India’s first wave of impact investing collapsed under the weight of unregulated and unsustainable microfinance lending. Since then, the sector has rebounded, multiplied and diversified. Almost $10.8 billion in equity capital has been invested in Indian companies with a social mission since 2010 (when impact investments totaled only.
Carlos Sanchez
JULY 15, 2020
Like. 1. Introduction to Green Electricity Sourcing. Decarbonization has become a global imperative and a priority for governments, companies and society at large. Sourcing green electricity is a crucial strategy for achieving net-zero carbon emissions. There is an increasing number of companies that have set or already made the target of using 100% renewable electricity.
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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.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 29, 2020
The World Biogas Summit and Expo will take place online from 6 to 8 October. Physical event 2020 is cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic but will be reinstated from 2021 onwards. The AD & Biogas Industry Awards ceremony 2020 on 8 October will also be online only. From 2021, the Summit and Expo will be offered both as physical and virtual events to maximise trade opportunities for participants whilst helping reduce the events’ carbon footprint.
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 21, 2020
MDP of Universidad de los Andes grants 25 scholarships to leaders of Colombia's Pacific Region. With the intention of promoting the training of future leaders, the Master's in Development Practice ( MDP) program of Universidad de Los Andes has decided to award a 100% scholarship to 25 leaders of Colombia´s Pacific Region. These scholarships will be awarded in alliance with Fundación Manos Visibles and the support of the Ford Foundation and Fundación SURA.
MSCI
JULY 15, 2020
Institutional investors are increasingly focused on mitigating their climate-related risks. How could a “typical” active global equity manager have managed these exposures without disturbing the portfolio’s risk and return characteristics?
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2020
It will take personal sustainability to meet the global challenges we face. Chris Gaither. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 02:15. Earth Day, when we remember the planet’s fragility and resilience, was when I finally understood that I had nothing left to give. It was April 2017. After two decades of striving in my career, I had risen to a role of great impact: a director on Apple’s Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives team.
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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.
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