Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Corporate Sustainability versus CSR. As businesses continue taking steps to be more purpose-driven, conscientious and responsible, the terms “corporate sustainability” and “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) are thrown around a lot, often without clarity and without knowing what these terms mean.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide. Event planners must have a defined strategy for the events they organize to be successful and sustainable.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

2021: Also the year of sustainability. Our team here at Green Busing Bureau strongly believes that this will be the year of mainstream sustainable business where every company, not just the purpose-driven ones, will be committed to being more eco-friendly and socially responsible. The business world will never be the same.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

But that changed in 2021 when Zenith needed to renew a state air permit, a process that also required the company to first get the city of Portland to sign off on what’s called a “Land Use Compatibility Statement,” or LUCS, which is a document issued by the city that says the facility’s operations comply with local land use planning and regulations.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability Program Challenges. Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

university is almost completely funded by the agribusiness industry, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and Unearthed. According to financial commitments outlined in the documents, the Center is on track to receive nearly $3.2 A prominent animal agriculture research center at a prestigious U.S. Big Money from Big Ag.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Yorkshire-based biomass giant is among over a dozen signatories to an industry-backed document that claims bioenergy could increase its output to nearly threefold, and reduce net global emissions by over one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050. Despite this, the document offers an optimistic take on bioenergy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Raft of UK supermarkets and food brands warn government's current proposals could damage the ability of UK fishing communities to meet growing demand for sustainable seafood. SSC members want to see stronger legislation to ensure sustainable fishing practices are enshrined in law," explained SSC coordinator Oliver Tanquerey. "SSC

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While most proposals originate with company management, a growing investor movement uses shareholder proposals or resolutions to promote more sustainable business practices. corporate and securities laws. This is becoming increasingly difficult for corporate boards to ignore. Some stakeholders envision a more systemic shift.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Here, Samir Jaber, technical writer at sustainable materials sourcing platform Matmatch, explains why offsetting alone will not suffice — and what businesses can do instead. The environmental impact of plastics is widely documented. By reducing emissions at the manufacturing level, companies can sustainably reduce carbon emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Want to find out more about how contract law and litigation can help drive forward the net zero transition? They allow you to take a recommendation or ambition - for instance net zero as defined by the Oxford Principles - and code it into law into a way that is legally enforceable.". You can sign up for a free pass now.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Packaging data specialist, ecoveritas , has called on the print and packaging sectors to take ‘a more targeted and action-led’ approach to sustainability, following the publishing of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Green Claims Code. This is why we’re such a passionate advocate of data-driven sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

DeSmog documented meetings held by six MEPs from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in parliament. Around 20 percent of the MEPs’ meetings were with unregistered groups, and at least one in six meetings documented by DeSmog was not declared on the parliamentary website.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2021

After six months of deliberation, a panel of experts yesterday published the core text of a legal document that would criminalise “ecocide” if taken on by the International Criminal Court (ICC). None of our international laws protect the environment as an end in itself and that’s what the crime of ecocide does,” Sands added.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest development in this years-long fight came on Monday, when the European Commission’s scientific expert group, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), pushed back against including gas and nuclear in the EU taxonomy, an official guide on sustainable investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But the law is too lenient. A fate well-documented in the recent history of the global carbon credits market. As Temple’s CEO Mark Skelton put it, “new digital workflows mean users can now manage a project’s impact on the landscape and comply with the new law in a highly accurate and efficient way.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As in past years, Latin America was the deadliest region for environmental activists in 2022, with 9 out of 10 of the documented killings. The report also documented three killings in Indonesia and two in India. “We fear there are many more defenders being killed every year that we never hear about,” Furoenes told DeSmog.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Former Prime Minister set to take become chair at influential sustainable business group, succeeding former Labour MP Joan Walley. The sustainable business group revealed this morning that the former prime minister has agreed to succeed former Labour MP Joan Walley, who has chaired the influential business group since 2015. "I

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Only after a second spill occurred at the Kearl mine in February 2023 was the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation warned of poisonous effluent contaminating the primary watercourse that has sustained their hunting and fishing for generations. Apparently, it depends on whos breaking the law.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. Effective contracts can provide a legal framework to drive climate action and cut emissions without waiting for policymakers to pass laws.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Retailer launches its first ever sustainability report, citing growing demand from shoppers for sustainable goods and business practices. The firm has also pledged to ensure its top 20 commodities, including cocoa, coffee and tea, soy, beef, timber, are sustainably sourced by 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

At new and expanding facilities, from northern Europe to Pennsylvania and Louisiana , Shell is suggesting that more chemical and plastics manufacturing can help usher in environmental solutions , sustainability , and even diversity. Yet the Shell-Henkel collaboration would replace only about 1.5 This place has been a catastrophe consistently.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New York sustainability: Urban sustainability that supports the green business. For the purpose-driven business operating within the New York district, this Green Business Bureau article looks at the New York sustainability agenda to detail the developments this city is championing to achieve urban sustainability.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

They have been engaged in a decadelong campaign of deception in which they have tried to convince the public that recycling of plastics, including single-use plastics, is sustainable when it’s not. What some of the new documents that have not been seen before really get at is this type of greenwashing by ExxonMobil called advanced recycling.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Investigators have documented children as young as 4 — some working alongside their parents and siblings — hammering rock from walls in illegal mines, then carrying heavy loads through slippery tunnels. "And Beautycounter sustainability director Sasha Calder in Jharkhand. School of rock.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Environmental law firm ClientEarth has this week laid down a set of ground rules for corporate net zero pledges, in a bid to ensure the growing number of climate promises being touted by the private sector are effective in their stated aim of reducing real-world emissions and can stand up to accusations of 'greenwash'.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In connection with the vote of dMY IV’s stockholders, dMY IV has filed a Registration Statement with SEC, which includes a proxy statement/prospectus and certain other related documents. dMY IV also will file other documents regarding the proposed transaction with the SEC. Forward-Looking Statements.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The South African PR agency had won its prize for promoting the “ sustainable development ” of Uganda’s untapped oil reserves by French oil company TotalEnergies. The following day, TotalEnergies unveiled a huge “Action for Sustainability” mural in the centre of Kampala. Most had never posted about sustainability or EACOP before.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. Carbon Negative’. Caution Urged.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. Related: New Shell documents, unearthed by a Dutch activist, could aid climate litigation. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

7 The UN General Assembly has also begun to take meaningful steps, with its member states signing onto resolutions that contain environmental protection and air quality subsections, such as ‘The future we want’ 8 and ‘Transforming our world: 2030 agenda for sustainable development’. The future we want – outcome document.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

The proposal seeks to allow for a new categorical exclusion for geothermal drilling in situations where drilling has occurred in the last 5 years or drilling will occur within an area with an approved NEPA-pursuant environmental document within the last 5 years. This will mirror existing categorical exclusions under the NEPA.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. A leaked document, circulated on Wednesday, showed that the share of renewables in the electricity mix would have to rise from around 32 percent to at least 65 percent by 2030. The EU developed a strict definition of what it considers to be “sustainable.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Observers say that at the 2022 summit in Montréal, these Latin American meat powerhouses forced the phrase “sustainable intensification” into the text. The climate group Carbon Brief documented 3,071 such brackets in COP16 negotiating documents as of 24 October.

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