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IWBI Announces Inaugural Social Sustainability Summit in New York

3BL Media

To be held at Citi’s WELL Certified headquarters, this groundbreaking, full-day event will be IWBI’s first-ever conference dedicated to driving the future of social sustainability. The event’s Silver level sponsors are Archetype, GSK and STO Building Group, with Kaiterra and WellStat as Bronze level sponsors.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. According to author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that result in extreme, unintended consequences. Tom Baruch.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. Many cities are already taking action against increasingly frequent extreme heat events. Pull Quote. Contributors.

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Risk Identification and Management in EHS Due Diligence: A Business Imperative 

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Some common oversights include: Assuming regulatory compliance equals no risk A facility may have no current violations but could still pose imminent future risks due to concerns such as high risk infrastructure failure events, pending changes in regulations, or required process changes.

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TCS Named Best Corporate Steward by U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation for Its Impactful Global CSR Initiatives

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We are committed to the principles of long-term value creation, while empowering people with opportunities in the digital economy and building sustainable, resilient communities.” TCS has long supported clients in North America, its largest market, for 50 years, all while giving back to local communities.

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From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular

GreenBiz

In her experience so far at SEIA, Butler has mainly seen repurposing of solar materials that “have been damaged, either the weather events or logistics, or sometimes their installation”. The event highlighted key opportunities for the solar industry’s much-needed entrance into the circular economy.

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The 33 sustainability certifications you need to know

GreenBiz

The organizations that comprise the infamous alphabet soup of reporting frameworks and standards each provide their own approach to the reporting of sustainable value creation and disclosure of climate-related risks, which makes deciding what reporting-related certification to pursue incredibly difficult.