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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

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 It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040. Heather Clancy.

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4 ways businesses can connect with their communities to create a clean economy

GreenBiz

PUSH Buffalo is a nonprofit grassroots community organization working to build and execute a comprehensive revitalization plan for West Buffalo’s West Side. UPROSE is Brooklyn's foremost Latinx community organization. Panelists explained how their community organizations and business partners have successfully collaborated in the past.

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The electronic waste collection conundrum

GreenBiz

Stokes founded her first electronics recycling organization in 2011 as a social purpose corporation and later sold Homeboy Industries. "The numbers will never scale until collection is scaled," long-time electronics recycling executive Kabira Stokes told me when I chatted with her earlier this week.

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Ocean-dumping for Fukushima wastewater: Japan’s complex decision remains contentious

Envirotec Magazine

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

By creating the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a framework is in place for organizations to better understand and report on these risks. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector

GreenBiz

leadership in sustainable finance and business through collaboration with the fast-growing network of businesses and organizations promoting such goals. Today, 90 percent of S&P 500 companies publish sustainability reports, up from 20 percent in 2011.

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Air pollution and premature death: Life expectancy impacts described in Bristol study

Envirotec Magazine

The study shows that an eight year old child (born in 2011) could die up to six months early if exposed over their lifetimes to air pollution, even taking into account the anticipated reduction in air pollution from 2011 to 2030. The study found Bristol had higher levels of PM2.5 Areas of Bristol most affected by air pollution.

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