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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

DeSmogBlog

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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Renewable energy for remote Amazon village

Smart Energy International

Remote Vila Restauração in northwest Brazil now has 24/7 power, thanks to the installation of a solar plus storage microgrid. Previously the 750-inhabitant village relied on a diesel generator providing three to four hours of power per day. As such, the delivery of the solar and other equipment required careful logistical planning.

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Bay Area CCAs Solicit 30MW of Distributed Batteries to Weather Grid Outages

GreenTechMedia

Community-choice aggregators representing three San Francisco Bay Area counties have launched a 30-megawatt behind-the-meter battery solicitation aimed at protecting vulnerable customers and communities from the massive fire-prevention power outages of bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

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CO2 imaging

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers in Madrid have used a novel near-infrared-light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. Adequately capturing the exhaust from a commercial airplane engine requires imaging an area up to 1.8 Kaleidoscopic input. m in diameter.

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

Synterex has achieved Gold-level certification status at the Green Business Bureau , and as such, stands as a valued and model green business. The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases.