GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2020

A nonprofit group that’s spent years fighting clean energy legislation in New England is pressing federal regulators to approve a legal argument that could lay the groundwork for challenges to the solar net metering policies now in place in 41 states. ” However, in a Monday email NERA President Marc Brown disputed that.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Brown, female and on the bus: A personal journey into transportation policy. I was involved in groups and actions, I already had joined boards and commissions for youth, and I’d organized various petitions and rallies in school. Sahar Shirazi. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 01:30. I got my first passport at 6 months old.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

It’s the work of some leading players in this area: ReFED, a nonprofit that works on food waste; WWF; Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. Here are just a few highlights — and ideas on how your organization can get involved. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Taking place in the Action on Food Hub (Blue Zone) the sessions will bring together leaders and experts to focus on policies and legal frameworks to explore methods and innovations towards reducing the amount of food that fails to feed people.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The energy landscape is changing quickly, and it affects every organization and every sector in countless ways. From energy prices to grid reliability to emissions, organizations must understand the major national and regional energy trends to successfully plan for the years ahead.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, many organizations are failing to appropriately track this growing footprint, says the Capgemini Research Institute, which is jeopardizing their ESG objectives. To mitigate this, organizations are increasingly turning to renewable energy sources and optimizing their AI infrastructure. over the next two years.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Policy Changes Turn to the Space Sector As many countries went to the polls in 2024, we are already seeing policy and regulatory shifts as new administrations outline their key priorities and budgets. While governments change, one thing remains constant: Space data truly shines when the public and private sectors come together.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

"We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

A campaign led by Friends of the Earth and allies calling on Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling Roundup and other glyphosate-based products has been supported by over 100 organizations and over 157,000 consumers. As awareness grows, Home Depot and Lowe’s must step up to regain the trust of their consumers. Environmental risk.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. However, insurance policies typically do not cover them, so the farmer is forced to take on the extra up-front costs and risk. This increased access to capital could help scale the market.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.? Join us and explore: RNG 101: Production, Distribution, Policy. Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Green gas is made from rotting organic matter food waste collected from homes and supermarkets, farm manures and slurries, industrial waste like whisky mash, rotational energy crops, and wastewater sewage sludge. This study is a wake-up call to look at more cost-effective options for net zero.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings. Many consumers are more conscious than ever when choosing brands whose policies meet their own interests. Nidia Martínez.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

. ‘Tangled Relationships’ Even though ACS CAN’s lobbyists separate their anticancer work from the agenda of their fossil fuel clients, the tangled relationships undermine the mission of the public health organization in several ways, Browning said. Steingraber herself was diagnosed with bladder cancer at the age of 20.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

That’s my takeaway from last week’s LEAD on Climate 2020 , organized by the nonprofit Ceres and supported by other sustainability-focused business groups. Her company is a founding member of the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance , along with Mars, Danone and Unilever. "We Coke and Pepsi both have terrific climate policies.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That pain point was the inspiration for a new climate data project launched this week that will be spearheaded by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit host organization for thousands of the most influential open source software and data initiatives in the world such as GitHub. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2025

Misguided Policy Recommendations: Reports rely on business jargon and inconsistent definitions of value chain, leading to superficial policy prescriptions that fail to address systemic issues. Unfortunately, circular fashion has absorbed the majority of policy-making attention and resources for research.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It reflects contributions from hundreds of scientists, policymakers, ethicists, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and communities that could be disproportionately affected by climate change interventions. Climate intervention research should not be presented as an alternative to emissions reductions.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

The deal agreed during a meeting of the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee received endorsement from 63 countries, including China, Brazil, South Africa and several European states. A long-standing policy vaccuum? below energy, land transport, and heavy industry, but above waste).

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

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. Ford is making an electric transit van. Subscribe here.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00. Media Source.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Commissioned in 2014, Fraddon Biogas is Cornwalls leading AD plant, converting organic waste from local farmers, bakeries and food and drink producers. For Cornwall to process organic waste locally, industry support is crucial, Mr Lourens said. The plant provides renewable gas and electricity for around 2,500 Cornish homes.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We controlled for a long list of other factors, including the use of other policy instruments. Groups such as the Business Council of Australia that welcomed the abolition of the carbon price back in 2014 are calling for an effective climate policy with a price signal at its heart. Carbon Policy. Carbon pricing elsewhere.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S. EU’s new chemical policy vision. Policy & Politics. It has now proposed a new vision for a "toxic-free environment" and published a strategy for moving the EU towards that goal.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2025

Yet, instead of following the citys leadership and using this moment to amplify bold climate solutions, championship organizers have given center stage to Equinor Norway’s national oil giant and one of the world’s biggest climate polluters. If the championship organizers refuse to act, then the people must.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Climate lobbying" in the report is defined as efforts "to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.". For the first time, those organizations have the opportunity to verify their emissions reduction plans against the goals of the Paris Agreement. Policy & Politics. Follow the money, indeed. Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Corporate policies promoting gender diversity are a reflection of a well-managed company that realizes diversity’s value in stimulating creativity and increasing productivity, in tandem with employee well-being. This includes flexible work arrangements and parental leave policies that go beyond legal minimum requirements.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Leading brands are setting internal targets, adjusting sourcing and procurement policies to align with the company’s ESG policies, engaging with suppliers on ESG performance and joining industry and sector networks to get educated on best practices.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

"There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Nonprofit organizations such as the National Links Trust , recent bid winners to take over operations of Washington, D.C.’s

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Polman is co-founder and chairman of Imagine , a "for-benefit" organization and foundation, which he started in 2019 with Valerie Keller, CEO for the organization; Jeff Seabright, former chief sustainability officer of Unilever; and Kees Kruythoff, chairman and CEO of the Livekindly Company. They might not have the skill.

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Canary Media

MARCH 6, 2024

A three-year effort to revamp California’s moribund community-solar market , spurred by state law and backed by solar industry groups, consumer advocates, environmental-justice organizations, labor unions and the state’s homebuilding industry, may now be in jeopardy. On Monday, the California Public Utilities…

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 15, 2025

Its particularly well-suited for organizations that cant afford power interruptions, such as data centers. geothermal PPAs are gaining momentum globally, supported by local policy and rising corporate commitments to net-zero targets. Country Policy Tool Impact U.S. Global Growth in Geothermal PPAs Beyond the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

He is advocating for a higher minimum wage, among other policies to address economic inequality. leadership in sustainable finance and business through collaboration with the fast-growing network of businesses and organizations promoting such goals. Policy & Politics. economic competitiveness and our broader national interest.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One organization that’s already gathering this sort of insight is the U.S. But Tate & Lyle has signaled it intends to refine its procurement policies around certain priority ingredients as part of its science-based Scope 3 commitment to reduce absolute CO2 emissions in its supply chain by 15 percent by 2030. and Canada. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All comments expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their organizations. In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that roughly a third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted along different stages of the value chain.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Infrequent surveys, coverage limitations, and slow processing times make it hard for organizations to keep up with vegetation dynamics. Organizations use this data to better understand vegetation health as it relates to agriculture, drought tracking, and other climate risks. However, traditional data-gathering methods often fall short.

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