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Sustainable aviation fuel offers flight path to net-zero air travel

GreenBiz

It will take long-term, coordinated action from airlines, aircraft manufacturers, fuel producers, airports and governments for zero-emissions flight to really take off.

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South Australia’s remarkable 100 per cent renewables run extends to over 10 days

Renew Economy

South Australia posts a remarkable and world-first run of net 100 per cent wind and solar for more than 10 days, or 249 hours. The post South Australia’s remarkable 100 per cent renewables run extends to over 10 days appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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HSBC to stop financing new oil and gas fields except in Canada

Corporate Knights

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change. The bank’s policy change is an important signal about the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but it’s not nearly as sweeping as the phase-out of all oil and gas projects climate activists would like to see.

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Advocates Raise $211,500 for Whole Planet Foundation's Poverty Is Unnecessary Project

3BL Media

SOURCE: Whole Foods Market Foundations. DESCRIPTION: Whole Planet Foundation is grateful for the outpouring of support for its 2022 Poverty Is Unnecessary Project. Suppliers to Whole Foods Market contributed $150,000 and the Annual Benefit & Auction celebrated the Foundation’s impact in the United States and 80 other countries and raised $61,500, thanks to sponsors and attendees. 2022 generous event sponsors include Presenting Sponsor Papyrus-Recycled Greetings, Gold Sponsors: Pact, MaryRuth

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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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10 children’s books about climate change

GreenBiz

Want to cultivate the next Greta Thunberg? These titles explore the impact of climate change for young listeners and readers.

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South Australia’s incredible week: 104.1 per cent wind and solar over seven days

Renew Economy

South Australia reaches 104.1 per cent wind and solar over state demand for the last seven days. The post South Australia’s incredible week: 104.1 per cent wind and solar over seven days appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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AEG’s Employee Network Group, PRIDE@AEG Hosted an Employee Volunteer Day at Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Youth Holiday Celebration

3BL Media

SOURCE: AEG. DESCRIPTION: On December 17, AEG's employee network group, PRIDE@AEG, volunteered their time to served hot meals and celebrate the holidays with teens and young adults at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Youth Holiday Celebration. The Center provides services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world and works to ensure that LGBT people can be healthy, equal and complete members of society.

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How smaller companies can help the world get to net zero faster

GreenBiz

Small- and medium-sized enterprises have a huge role to play in the collective corporate effort to address the climate crisis.

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Rooftop solar is eating coal and gas markets in every mainland state

Renew Economy

Rooftop solar has caused record lows for every mainland state in the last two months as it eats into the coal and gas markets. The post Rooftop solar is eating coal and gas markets in every mainland state appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Climate muse: Eco-artists hope to inspire in the face of crisis

Corporate Knights

With little headway being made by government and corporate leaders to limit climate-heating emissions, vanishing biodiversity, rampant deforestation and the like, frustration is mounting around the globe. Rather than organizing another series of protest marches, climate activists have been resorting to more unusual tactics. From hurling maple syrup at an Emily Carr painting , mashed potatoes at a Monet and soup at a van Gogh , to gluing themselves to gallery walls, climate activists have been fo

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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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IBM Journey to More Sustainable Facilities: IBM As Client Zero

3BL Media

By Jane Muir-Sands. SOURCE: IBM. DESCRIPTION: As IBM helps customers align sustainability goals with business objectives, we also leverage technology to achieve our own sustainability goals. Currently, IBM has a set of environmental commitments, including achieving Net Zero GHG Emissions by 2030 and diverting 90% of nonhazardous waste (by weight) from landfill and incineration by 2025.

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Agriculture is a solution to reach a net zero economy

GreenBiz

Investors need to shift their focus to agriculture and smart-farming to create the next tech boom and fight climate change.

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For Australia to be a green hydrogen superpower, first we must find enough water

Renew Economy

How much water does it take to make green hydrogen – and can Australia source what it needs, sustainably, to become a hydrogen superpower? The post For Australia to be a green hydrogen superpower, first we must find enough water appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Generative AI is here: How tools like ChatGPT could change your business

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Generative AI and other foundation models are changing the AI game, taking assistive technology to a new level, reducing application development time, and bringing powerful capabilities to nontechnical users.

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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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The Meaning of Quiet Quitting

3BL Media

SOURCE: Ericsson. DESCRIPTION: The quiet quitting debate provides us with an opportunity to talk about purpose and meaning. About well-being, work life balance, about the future of work, job-crafting and so much more. This is the first post in a series that will explore those subjects and Ericsson as a workplace from different individual perspectives.

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Glass Packaging Receives Positive Consumer Response

Environment + Energy Leader

A survey from the Glass Packaging Institute shows they would consider buying from companies that use the materials. The post Glass Packaging Receives Positive Consumer Response appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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FRV to build two grid forming battery storage projects in Victoria

Renew Economy

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Australia owned by a Saudi investment fund and a Canadian infrastructure fund, is to build a second big battery with grid forming inverters in Victoria after winning a role in the federal funding round. The 250MW/500MWh Gnarwarre battery energy storage system will be located in Gnarwarre, south west, Victoria, not far from the […].

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The secret to great health? Escaping the healthcare matrix

McKinsey Sustainabilty

The blueprint to achieve a lifetime of great health is increasingly clear and within our control. But unlocking it requires challenging the orthodoxies currently guiding individuals and institutions.

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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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PNC's Performance Awards Exemplify Talent-Focused Culture

3BL Media

Top employee honor highlights contributions to company, customers and communities. SOURCE: PNC Financial Services Group. DESCRIPTION: Picture a months-long series of meetings in which leaders representing almost a dozen departments work together to define a standard of peak performance that uniformly applies to each of their fields. It would be a challenging process.

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Utilities sound alarm over distribution transformer shortage as procurement times surpass 1 year and costs triple

Utiliity Dive

Shortages of materials, labor and production capacity are beginning to hold back electrification projects and threaten grid reliability, the electric sector warned.

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Bowen takes first step to put environment back into energy market rules

Renew Economy

The Albanese government launches consultation on putting emissions reductions into the objectives of the national energy laws, a long-overdue reform. The post Bowen takes first step to put environment back into energy market rules appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Using ESG and impact to sort leaders from laggards in 2023

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 22 – It’s not about the scores. It’s about the solutions. ESG – shorthand for the consideration of environmental, social and governance considerations. The post Using ESG and impact to sort leaders from laggards in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Qurate Retail Group Awarded on Newsweek's America's Most Responsible Companies 2023 List

3BL Media

Qurate Retail Group recognized second year in a row on Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies. SOURCE: Qurate Retail Group. DESCRIPTION: December 21, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Qurate Retail Group SM has been recognized on Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023. The world leader in video commerce ranked seventh out of 18 in the retail industry, and among the top 200 companies overall.

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Get Started With Terraform and Cisco Modeling Labs

Cisco CSR

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a hot topic these days, and the IaC tool of choice is Terraform by HashiCorp. Terraform is a cloud provisioning product that provides infrastructure for any application. You can refer to a long list of providers for any target platform. . Terraform’s list of providers now includes Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 2 , so we can use Terraform to control virtual network infrastructure running on CML2.

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Spinning machines versus grid forming inverters: The search for control in 100 pct renewables

Renew Economy

Competition between spinning machines and grid forming batteries to replace retiring coal generators will be one of the landmark themes of the switch to renewables. The post Spinning machines versus grid forming inverters: The search for control in 100 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ISSB Gives Companies an Extra Year to Disclose Scope 3 Emissions

ESG Today

Companies reporting under the new climate disclosure standards being developed by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) of the IFRS Foundation will be given an additional year to report on Scope 3 emissions, or those originating in a company’s value chain and beyond its direct control, according to an announcement by the ISSB following its December meeting.

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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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The Future of Sustainable Fashion and Design: Stella McCartney and Lenovo Unveil Winning Concept of Central Saint Martins Design Competition

3BL Media

SOURCE: Lenovo. DESCRIPTION: Peter Nasielski, an MA Design; Furniture student from Central Saint Martins, crowned winner of sustainability design competition for regenerative seaweed eyewear concept. As winner, Peter will be awarded internships at Stella McCartney HQ in London and Lenovo Design HQ in the US. Three other finalists awarded internships at Lenovo HQ in the US.

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Bluetooth SIG plans to add new IoT capabilities

Stacey Higginbotham

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has a new focus on IoT, specifically on bringing connected Bluetooth shelf labels and tags to retail and other settings. According to Ken Kolderup, chief marketing officer at the SIG, the organization is making plans for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard for electronic shelf labels and discussing what standards ubiquitous electronic BLE tags might need.

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The new year will be all about grid firming as Australia rejoins race to renewables

Renew Economy

We leave 2022 with a new policy clarity and momentum in the shift to renewables. The vital role of energy firming – including from batteries on wheels – is the next frontier. The post The new year will be all about grid firming as Australia rejoins race to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The future of banks: A $20 trillion breakup opportunity

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Banking is radically transforming. Many banks can thrive by fundamentally changing the way that financial services are embedded into daily life.

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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.