Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The inquiry will look at whether businesses are exaggerating the positive environmental impacts from their products and services in order to capitalise on growing consumer demand for ethical and sustainable products, the watchdog said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

I've come across many definitions in my time working on this topic. There isn't really an accepted definition of what genetic modification is, and that has certainly caused some problems. This is turn can invoke the idea that scientific progress interferes with nature, producing results which are unpredictable and ethically wrong.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

But Ulysses Smith, director of the business and rule of law programme at think-tank Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, tells his clients that it's actually the goal that has the most relevance to a company's ability to operate. However, this is a more sensitive topic, says Smith. Think global. Corruption-proof your business.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This is especially true with the growing number of young consumers, most of whom prefer doing business with ethical, green companies. To give an example, Green Business Bureau member, Hit Promotional Products , won a one million dollar bid because they were the only business that had a definitive sustainability plan.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Asked about Finley’s dual role as IPTA secretary and IMO ambassador, an IMO spokesperson said representatives were selected by member states and that “representatives would be subject to the national laws of that country in relation to any conflict of interest or ethics.”. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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Government Climate change Ethics Transportation 98

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

Multiple studies and ESG indices provide definitive correlations between BOD diversity representation and higher company performance. Her work has been featured by NACD, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Environmental Leader and Responsible Investor. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. trillion in sales.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

If you have an environmentally-minded investor or pension holder you are likely already aware that it stands for 'Environmental, Social and Governance', and that it is supposed to signal that your money is being put towards assets that are environmentally and ethically sound.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

The flip side to this rosy view is that there are plenty of ethical concerns to consider. There is concern that Moore's Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. So, definitely look for far more specialised hardware. Remember this acronym, MRAM.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

With good reason: Sustainable business still lacks universal definitions, metrics and accountability. Somewhere, Professor Friedman must be smiling. Sure, there are ESG metrics, sustainability ratings and corporate rankings galore. And the pursuit of those can help move companies further faster.

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Politics Sustainability Ethics Fashion 36

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Ultimately, he filed 21 internal ethical misconduct complaints against colleagues and top executives, including current NW Natural CEO David Anderson, later elevating his concerns to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the body that regulates NW Natural.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 30, 2020

The flip side to this rosy view is that there are plenty of ethical concerns to consider. There is concern that Moore’s Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. So, definitely look for far more specialized hardware. Remember this acronym, MRAM.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology 28

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Genetically enhancing animals is a lot harder than plants however, and comes with ethical problems on its own. I therefore definitely recommend this book if you are interested in the subject.

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Organic Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. And that’s a huge intergenerational obligation, which engages really deep ethical concerns.”

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 121

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Yet, decent pay is more than just a question of ethics, it makes good business sense too. Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws. Assess your company’s supply chain risks.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

This has made it much harder to redistribute wealth in fair ways through minimum wage laws or taxation structures. They came about because ordinary people mobilized and made the ethical argument that this was wrong, and that ordinary people should have to say no to this. The climate crisis is directly related to inequality.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

They wanted to build an ethical alternative. Expertise of local laws across Europe would be helpful too. Matt: Definitely. They wanted to build an ethical alternative. There’s interest in South America, and it’s all over Europe. It’s a co-op, decisions are taken by the members. Matt: It’s grown rapidly.

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Ethics Europe South America Government 86

GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner. Even if states do nothing or only a little, companies have the responsibility to respect human rights.".

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

It's time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. This duty - which is both ethical and legal - requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner". Even if states do nothing or only a little, companies have the responsibility to respect human rights.".

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Climate change Fossil fuels Sea level rise COP 72

AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. This duty — which is both ethical and legal — requires them to make decisions in good faith and in a reasonably prudent manner. Even if states do nothing or only a little, companies have the responsibility to respect human rights.”

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Climate change Fossil fuels Sea level rise Pollution 28

Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sokal’s hoax made the front page of The New York Times and traveled as far as Le Monde in France, and decades later, the ethics of his experiment are still being debated. “In a prankster with suspicious ethics who’s providing fuel for oil companies, the far right, and the rest of the climate disinformation machine.

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Climate change Global warming Ethics Politics 140

Grist

MARCH 26, 2025

Before hitting these theoretical limits, though, demand for the metals is likely to outstrip the worlds ability to economically and ethically mine them, said Beatrice Browning, an expert on battery recycling at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, which tracks the industry. The projected runway for cobalt is even shorter.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Trump wants to delay certification of the election results and then get Republican legislatures to change the laws of their state so that they can flout the democratic will of the electorate and give him their state’s electoral votes. He certainly wants to delegitimize Biden’s presidency, but there is something far more sinister at work here.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Just one Republican appears to have accepted, according to documents filed by Heritage with the House Committee on Ethics that were reviewed by DeSmog. The ethics filing was signed by the Heritage Foundation’s general counsel Daniel Mauler, who is listed as a contributor to Project 2025. What was the purpose of these discussions?

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