GreenBiz

AUGUST 2, 2021

The software giant, which famously pledged to pay back its carbon debt in January 2020, is reminding other corporations that avoiding carbon and removing carbon are two very different things.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion for 2020. Some projections call for the overall market to reach about $63.5 billion in 2027, compared with a relatively modest $3.1

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE 20, October 26-30, 2020. Mon, 11/09/2020 - 17:01. Learn more about the event here: [link]. . Watch our other must-see talks here: [link]. . OUR LINKS Website: [link]. Twitter: [link]. LinkedIn: [link]. Instagram: [link]. Facebook: [link].

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

31, 2020, which it files annually with the U.S. million sellers with more than 85 million items available for sale, as of December 2020. In 2020, Etsy offset 404,439 metric tons of carbon in total and shipping alone was 303,218 metrics tons CO2 equivalent in 2020, according to the company.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Date/Time: November 12, 2020 (8-9PM ET / 5-6PM PT). Wed, 10/21/2020 - 12:45. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 11/12/2020 - 11:00. The Role of Innovation in Changing Behavior Towards a Circular Economy. Not only is this unsustainable for communities and the environment, it also makes little sense economically. Jacob Duer.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Collectively, the work of 25 cities in the Climate Challenge will reduce CO2 emissions by 74 million metric tons from 2020 through 2030, compared to business as usual.

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GreenBiz

JULY 7, 2020

Tue, 07/07/2020 - 11:03. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 08/13/2020 - 11:00. Taylor Price, Sustainability Professional & Global Manager, Aptar. Ritu Sharma. Heather Clancy. Editorial Director. GreenBiz Group. GreenTechLady. Eunice Heath. Global Director, Sustainability. Dow Chemical Company. euniceheath5. Taylor Price.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

A visit to OL3 in 2020 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY 2.0 license ). A leakage of reactor coolant has occurred at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the west coast of Finland, according to the operator of the plant, Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) in a 10 March statement.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. The company closed out 2020 by investing $3 million and hiring 150 employees for its North American headquarters in Charlotte , North Carolina. in early 2020. in early 2020. Photo courtesy of BYD.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Date/Time: December 10, 2020 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Wed, 11/18/2020 - 13:39. Thu, 12/10/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 11:00. How AI and Robotics are Transforming Recycling. The challenges facing recycling in the U.S. taylor flores. John Davies. VP, Senior Analyst. GreenBiz Group. greenbizjd. Monique Oxender.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2022

percent between 2020 and 2030. In 2021, the global electric truck market size was valued at $670 million and is projected to grow by 23.5 Here are some of the companies vying for that revenue.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 25, 2021

Energy Northwest in Richland, WA, which operates the only nuclear power plant in the region, the Columbia Generating Station, has earned the American Public Power Association’s Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2020. Not to mention breaking all generation records.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2024

11 circular economy startups have emerged as $1 billion-plus companies since 2020.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Wed, 09/30/2020 - 07:52. Thu, 10/15/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 10/15/2020 - 11:00. If you can't tune in live, please register and we will email you a link to access the archived webcast footage and resources, available to you on-demand after the webcast. taylor flores. Sarah Golden. Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Energy Chair.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The community solar market had a record year in 2020, accounting for 37 percent of annual non-residential solar capacity — up from just 13 percent in 2016.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2020, this began to change: Global fashion house PVH released new data on living wages across its factories and benchmarked it against the rest of its beleaguered industry to show a clean, comparable view in 2020. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.

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Energy Storage News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Tesla’s energy storage and generation revenues have tripled since 2020, largely driven by deployments of Megapack battery storage systems.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And then 2020 happened. To our immense satisfaction, we saw little carnage within corporate sustainability departments during 2020 relative to previous economic downturns, when such functions were often among the first to be downsized or jettisoned. And the year ahead certainly would bring more of the same. Or so we predicted.

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2025

When the International Maritime Organization enacted a mandatory cap on the sulfur content of marine fuels in 2020, with an eye toward reducing harmful environmental and health impacts, it left shipping companies with several main options.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Following the challenging, turbulent year that was 2020, what is the state of sustainable business in 2021? Mon, 12/21/2020 - 10:22. The State of Green Business 2021. Date/Time: January 25, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Report Partner. taylor flores. Joel Makower. Chairman & Executive Editor. GreenBiz Group. Richard Mattison.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fri, 12/11/2020 - 01:45. billion in alternative proteins during 2020, according to the latest data from the Good Food Institute. The trend: Another area where a flood of new initiatives in 2020 made it challenging to keep up. That’s it for part one of my 2020 roundup. An insane year for alternative proteins.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Mon, 05/18/2020 - 02:16. As you contemplate the next phase of Intel’s corporate sustainability journey, make sure to step back for a reality check on the company’s 2020 goals. kilowatt-hours of energy from 2012 to 2020 (beating its goal of 4 billion kWh). . Heather Clancy.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers report that 53% of European freestanding homes could have supplied all their own energy needs in 2020 using only local rooftop solar radiation, and this technical feasibility could increase to 75% in 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 4, 2025

An image of the site in Northampton in February 2020 (credit: the Environment Agency). Eyre was also fined 250 for breach of his first suspended sentence of imprisonment he received in January 2020. This probe followed a court case in January 2020, for the same nature of offending, when Synergy Tyres (Midland) Ltd.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 12/15/2020 - 01:30. Read about the 2020 class of GreenBiz 30 Under 30 honorees here. . It's time to nominate rising stars for the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 list. Heather Clancy. The GreenBiz editorial team is looking for someone (actually, someones) to celebrate! 23, when we'll reach out to interview the selected honorees.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Fri, 06/05/2020 - 00:30. Meet the fellows for 2019 and 2020. Here are the 2019-2020 fellows. Discrimination in our food system is everybody's problem. The team at GreenBiz started Food Weekly to track progress toward a better food system. More in this Guardian feature. Learn more in this GQ profile.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Mon, 11/02/2020 - 01:00. The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging time by sustainability professionals representing business, government, NGOs and academia. Tove Malmqvist.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2021

2020 was a breakthrough year for climate tech, and there’s more to come in 2021. Sustainability professionals considered this question: What’s the most significant way that the events of 2020 changed your job or perspective as a sustainability professional? Fri, 01/08/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:35).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Japan's big increase in sustainable investment assets from 2016 to 2020 means it accounts for 8 percent of the $35.3 trillion from the five major markets of Europe, the United States, Canada, Australasia and Japan.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

Wed, 06/10/2020 - 01:30. The organization expects there to be 169 zero-emission commercial vehicles available for purchase, or soon to be available, in North America by the end of 2020; that's a 78 percent increase from the number of zero-emission commercial vehicles available at the end of 2019. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. businesses, states and cities accelerated their action on climate in 2020. For example, investor BlackRock is asking that by the end of 2020, companies issue reports aligned with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Indeed, in early 2020, J.P. As the financial sector undergoes a fundamental reshaping — best described by BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink — the FSC introduced in 2020 new reporting requirements for companies to better address investors’ preferred reporting framework choices. Sponsored Article. Photo courtesy of José Miguel Salazar.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. Our observations and point of view for 2020 so far are: The pandemic has been an accelerator of trends, such as the digital transformation of the water sector, attention on lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, and the appalling underinvestment in water infrastructure in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 12/15/2020 - 01:45. NYU Stern Business School’s 2020 Sustainable Share Market Index shows shares of sustainability-marketed products grew significantly during the week of March 15, and continued to maintain that increased share through mid-June. Sustainable shopping is healthy, even amid a pandemic. Diane Osgood.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Close to $2 billion will have been invested in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the middle of this year, estimates David Ceaser, lead agronomist at Agritecture , an indoor ag consulting firm based in Brooklyn. It runs May 25-26 and is free to attend.). Pull Quote. Food & Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 01:45. Thinking back to the beginning of 2020 can seem like a lifetime ago. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we are all much more resilient than we thought possible. New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. Zoé Bezpalko. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . Driving forward.

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TechXplore

JULY 23, 2024

In 2020, the UK produced a staggering 59.1 The construction industry is not on track to decarbonize by 2050 and uses more resources than most. million tonnes of non-hazardous construction and demolition waste. Despite most of this material (92.6%) being recycled, much of it was crushed for use in roads and building foundations.

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