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Paper, plastic or neither? Inside the collaboration to reinvent the shopping bag. Tali Zuckerman. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:45. Replacing the single-use shopping bag may be one of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time. At GreenBiz’s Circularity 20 virtual conference last week, sustainability leaders from Target, Walmart and CVS came together to discuss how they are planning to do just that, and why working together despite being competitors is critical to achieving success.
Public equity markets have historically been overlooked in the impact investing space, traditionally a domain for credit and private market financing. We see public equities playing a growing and indispensable role in the impact ecosystem. A common question in the industry is: how exactly can investing in public equities create impact? At BlackRock, our Active.
A £3.4m investment project to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute began on 31 August. The improvement work will help tackle the issue of sewer flooding by increasing the capacity of the local sewer network. It will involve the upsizing of almost 350 metres of sewer pipe, with large diameter sewers being installed along Barmore Road, Harbour Street, and on a short section of School Road.
Today the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Parliamentarians for the Global Goals (PFGG), and Gabriela Cuevas, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), organized a high-level dialogue on alternative development metrics, such as subjective well-being, and their role in tracking progress on building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
What does 'climate risk' actually mean? Joel Makower. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 02:11. If you stick around the world of sustainable business long enough, you’re sure to see an immutable march of memes — terms that rise up and become popularized, often without agreed-upon definitions. Then, over time, they become used, and overused, to the point where they lose much of their meaning.
ImpactAlpha, September 2 – Two impact investors sounded off in ImpactAlpha this week about the importance of securing the fairness of the November U.S. election (see, “How impact investors can help ensure racial justice includes electoral justice,” and “Impact investors have a role to play in preventing worst-case election scenarios”). Now comes the Facebook founder.
The Ffestiniog scheme in North Wales: Pumped storage can resolve a perceived conflict between boosting economic activity and encouraging a sustainable green agenda, said ILI Group’s Mark Wilson. Land development firm says long term energy storage is ‘crucial’ for the net zero energy system of the future and keeping consumer bills lower. A morning programme at the final day of the Scottish Renewables Conference (3 September) – an online event this year – addressed the topic R
The Ffestiniog scheme in North Wales: Pumped storage can resolve a perceived conflict between boosting economic activity and encouraging a sustainable green agenda, said ILI Group’s Mark Wilson. Land development firm says long term energy storage is ‘crucial’ for the net zero energy system of the future and keeping consumer bills lower. A morning programme at the final day of the Scottish Renewables Conference (3 September) – an online event this year – addressed the topic R
Editor’s note : This article was first published on the Global Solutions blog. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. This is the first of two articles published in the last week examining important links between environmental conditions and public health as well as how nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations and national governments can help address these issues.
Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Holly Secon. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions.
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Small business relief funding efforts are bogged down in Washington. But a growing network of state governments and private funders are backing community-based lenders to provide critical capital for small businesses trying to recover from the COVID crisis. The California Rebuilding Fund, greenlighted by state officials last week, boosts the lending.
Hedgehog (photo credit: Ben Andrew). The government is approaching a “fork in the road” that could “change the course of the future for nature” as it plans to shake up the country’s planning system, conservation experts have warned. On 3 September the RSPB was asking people to speak up for nature and ensure wildlife in their local area is protected and make sure the wildlife that brought us so much solace during lockdown is not endangered by proposals for a radically different planning system.
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
SDSN Afghanistan started the pilot the project of the "Our University and SDGs - A Capacity Building Program for Universities" at its host institution, Kateb University. The core objective of this program is to strengthen the position of universities and their contribution in the development process of Afghanistan using the Global Agenda which will be implemented in three phases as following: Rapid Self-Assessment for Learning : In this phase, policies, strategies, programs, curriculum, research
The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills. Jim Giles. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 00:15. How about this for a series of maddening statistics? Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. The single largest input into U.S. landfills is food waste, yard trimmings and other organic matter.
ImpactAlpha, September 3 – Indonesian insurance tech company PasarPolis partners with large insurance firms to develop health, vehicle and life insurance products for lower-income customers. The five-year-old company expanded into Vietnam and Thailand last year. LeapFrog invested in the company’s $54 million Series B round. The impact investor was joined by ride-hailing company Gojek’s venture.
Battery-less control and monitoring units will be able to draw energy from electrical cabling. Two French firms have developed an innovative energy harvesting platform that is based on induction. The technology – the fruit of a collaboration between e-peas, an energy harvesting specialist, and magnetic components manufacturer TCT – is being positioned for an important role within building automation and smart-grid deployments.
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.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On August 27, 2020, the SDSN, Foresight4Food, IFAD, and APRA co-hosted the second in 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 second session looked at the challenges smallholders face and opportunities for improvement in yields and standards of living at the local level.
The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:45. The U.S. recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps.
ImpactAlpha, September 1 – The Local Initiatives Support Corp.’s launched its Black Economic Development Fund to invest in Black-owned banks and minority businesses, along with charter schools, affordable housing projects and athletic facilities in Black communities. Costco’s $25 million commitment to matches $25 million from Netflix. LISC is targeting $100 million for the fund.
EMG Group, the international advisory firm for sustainable development, has announced the opening of a Saudi Arabian office in Riyadh. This is to back the realization of Vision 2030 and to facilitate support to the private sector in its efforts to strategically navigate present economic realities. European roots, world-class accreditation Founded in 2004, the award-winning [.].
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
Editor’s Note: This article was first published on AACSB. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. The more we can apply lessons from pandemic-era teaching to the programs we develop now, the better we can innovate for tomorrow’s online education. By mid-March, 79 percent of AACSB-surveyed business schools had converted face-to-face classes to online after the COVID-19 health crisis caused colleges and universities around the world to close their doors.
Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts. Bryn Baker. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 01:00. On Aug. 14 and 15, the California electric grid operator made the incredibly rare decision to proactively shut off parts of the electricity grid, resulting in limited rolling blackouts affecting businesses and homes throughout the state.
ImpactAlpha, September 1 – D.C.-based nonprofit Halcyon recently launched an angel network for residents of the D.C. metro area to invest in impact startups. The network’s first two investments are a $400,000 commitment to MajorClarity, an edtech startup focused on remote learning, and $230,000 for community solar startup Solstice. Halcyon has been incubating D.C.
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Yandex will increase its stake in new self-driving vehicle company (Yandex SDG) to 73% and invest an additional $150 million in its future development.
Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Heather Clancy. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02. Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 billion company’s new commitment to achieve net-zero status for its own operations by the end of this decade. .
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 1 – Here’s a solid example of a 10x response: Total impact investments by clients of San Francisco-based ImpactAssets increased tenfold to $170 million in the first six months of 2020. In the first half of last year, ImpactAssets clients deployed about $17.5 million in private mission-driven businesses and impact funds. “Our clients.
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Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:30. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. As the market for electric vehicles takes off, that means eventually hundreds of millions of EV batteries will be in use and then face end of life.
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Blue Like an Orange, a $200 million structured debt fund, extended BRL 30 million (about $5.5 million) to Placi Cuidados Extensivos, which is developing the market for “transitional” health care in Brazil. Placi offers an alternative between acute hospital care and homecare, a new concept in Brazil, for patients needing rehabilitation.
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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