Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When compared to fossil fuel and nuclear options, solar PV’s global costs in 2023 were 56 per cent lower, while onshore wind’s costs were even lower. The post Solar and wind less than half the cost of fossil fuels as price falls continue appeared first on RenewEconomy.
3BL Media
OCTOBER 4, 2024
AMD collaborates with enterprises, researchers, and others to help them put our technology to work solving some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. By understanding our customers’ computing needs, together we can apply AMD technology to tackle tough challenges like advancing climate research, electrification of vehicles, and power grid resilience.
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Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 3, 2024
European supermarkets are helping customers eat less meat and more plants in a bid to improve dietary health and reduce emissions. The new initiative, known as protein splits , aims to expand supermarket sales of plant proteins and shrink sales of animal ones. In Europe, a combination of shoppers wanting to eat less animal protein due to rising health, animal welfare and environmental concerns — plus supermarkets’ own worries about reducing their emissions and, in one country, government backing
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 3, 2024
A new McKinsey analysis quantifies the impact that digital and AI can have on consumer goods businesses and where consumer-packaged-goods executives should focus their efforts.
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.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 3, 2024
IEEFA's recent research on the cost of building nuclear is detailed and extensively referenced, with the methods laid out transparently. Dismissing it as "cherry-picked" and "nonsense" is not good enough. The post If Peter Dutton has a better understanding of the cost of building nuclear, then let’s see it appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Comamonadacae is a family of bacteria often found growing on plastics in water. New study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities for developing bacteria-based engineering solutions to help clean up difficult-to-remove plastic waste.
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McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Our latest research examines how a new take on operational excellence can help rekindle productivity—and reveals five practices that matter in jump-starting performance.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The UK was the first country to build a coal fired power station and has now become the first major economy to exit coal power. The post Last coal power station in UK shuts down, bring coal era to end after 143 years appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new study.
Good.is: Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2024
This expedition illuminated new details about the ancient Egyptian city Thonis-Heracleion which got submerged underwater due to earthquakes.
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
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Optimists, pessimists—who’s right? New research breaks down the physical realities slowing our progress toward net zero: what’s simpler, what’s tough, and what’s vital to transforming our energy system successfully.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
The Breamlea wind turbine was built in 1987 but owner Barwon Water says the parts no longer exist to keep it operational. The post Australia’s oldest wind turbine faces final spin, will be dismantled after nearly 40 years or service appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range of different roles and functions that birds undertake within the environment -- and resulted in the loss of approximately 3 billion years of unique evolutionary history, according to a new study.
ESG Today
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Microsoft announced the launch of a new pilot project with Irish state-owned energy company ESB testing the use of green hydrogen as part of the tech giant’s portfolio of clean energy solutions aimed at decarbonizing its growing data center footprint. Under the new agreement, Microsoft’s data centre power control and administration building in Dublin will be powered by zero emissions green hydrogen power, supplying up to 250 kW of energy to Microsoft’s Dublin campus over an eight-week period.
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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.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 4, 2024
The consumer goods industry, once an investor darling, has underperformed in recent years. Companies can prioritize six actions to simultaneously revive revenue growth and reduce costs.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Solar grazing is a multi-billion dollar industry in the US. Australian farmers are beginning to think about how it might work here, too. The post A multi-billion dollar solar sheep rental industry is taking shape in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 1, 2024
A research team systematically analyzed 40 empirical studies, the majority of which had found that outdoor air pollution is associated with differences in children's brains. These differences include volumes of white matter, which is associated with cognitive function, connections throughout the brain and even early markers for Alzheimer's.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Industrial Decarbonization How the shipping industry can set sail toward a low-carbon future. Greening fossil-fueled. The post The Brief: Steering shipping toward a low-carbon future appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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
McKinsey Sustainabilty
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Our September obituaries also include a legal trailblazer, an innovative ophthalmologist, and a publishing pioneer who forged a path for women authors.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The instantaneous share of renewable energy in Australia’s main grid has reached new highs for the second day in a row, steadily nudging out fossil fuels in preparation for the day that coal generation might be switched off completely, as occurred in the earlier today. As Joshua Hill writes here, the last coal-fired power generator […] The post Renewable records tumble for second day in a row, pushing fossil fuels to new lows appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 2, 2024
U.S. tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, indirectly cause thousands of deaths for nearly 15 years after a storm. Researchers estimate an average U.S. tropical cyclone indirectly causes 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths. All told, they estimate tropical storms since 1930 have contributed to between 3.6 million and 5.2 million deaths in the U.S. -- more than all deaths nationwide from motor vehicle accidents, infectious diseases, or battle deaths in wars during the same period.
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
ESG data management startup Atlas Metrics announced today that it has raised €12.2 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds aimed at supporting investments in the company’s team, its expansion into new markets, and the development of its ESG compliance and performance management offering. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Atlas Metrics provides an ESG compliance and sustainability performance management, utilizing automation, AI, secure data sharing, and advanced analytics to ease impact c
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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
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 4, 2024
An often neglected concept, spiritual health can have significant knock-on benefits for a person’s well-being, and its importance at work needs to be recognized.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The owner of one of Australia's biggest coal generators has shut down one of its units for six hours in a trial to see how the technology can dance around the huge and growing solar duck curve. The post Coal generators are learning how to shut down for solar in significant boost to renewable switch appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 1, 2024
A new study documents how Southern Californians are chronically being exposed to toxic airborne chemicals called plasticizers, including one that's been banned from children's items and beauty products.
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The European Commission announced that it has sent letters to 17 EU member states, opening infringement procedures with the states over their failure to communicate that they have fully transposed the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) into their national laws. The CSRD is a major update to the EU’s Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), the previous EU sustainability reporting framework, significantly expanding the number of companies required to provide sustainability d
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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.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The largest operating wind farm in Australia has marked a significant milestone with the first export of renewable energy to the national electricity market. The post Australia’s largest operating wind farm sends first power to Sunshine State grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Researchers discover that geckos use a mechanism usually associated with balance to sense vibrations, leading to new insights about how animals hear and feel their surroundings.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Deliberate efforts to expand the share of capital that is owned and managed by non-white, non-wealthy non-men is meeting (predictable) resistance both from. The post The Liist, October 2024: Diversifying the landscape of problem solvers, wealth builders – and fund managers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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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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