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Kellogg Joins BICEP Coalition to Push for Better Energy & Climate Policies
Kellogg Company has joined the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP), committing to expand its global sustainability efforts by working with businesses and policymakers to enact...
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Institutional Investors Managing $24T Call for Carbon Pricing, Ambitious...
Nearly 350 global institutional investors representing over $24 trillion in assets have called on government leaders to provide stable, reliable and economically meaningful carbon pricing that helps...
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Protest Prompts 8 Major Fashion Retailers to Support Wage Increase for...
Thousands of workers took to the streets of Phnom Penh, in Cambodia, last week to protest for a near-doubling of the minimum wage for retailer workers there to US$177 (£110) a month. It seems their...
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AkzoNobel, The Nature Conservancy Partner with Nonprofit to Enhance Urban...
AkzoNobel, The Nature Conservancy, Risk Management Solutions and Veolia have joined 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) to provide critical tools to help cities...
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Global Shift to Mass Transit Can Save $100 Trillion by 2050
More than $100 trillion in cumulative public and private spending, and 1,700 megatons of annual carbon dioxide (CO2) — a 40 percent reduction of urban passenger transport emissions — could be...
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Asia Pulp and Paper, M&S, Barclays Among Signatories of New York Declaration...
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Group chairman Teguh Ganda Wijaya today joins a number of companies, governments and NGOs to sign the New York Declaration on Forests at the UN Climate Summit 2014. The...
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Barclays Pledges £1bn to Rapidly Growing Green Bonds Sector
On Monday, Barclays reaffirmed its commitment to the Green Bonds sector by announcing it will invest a minimum of £1bn (US$1.64) by November 2015 to form part of its liquid asset buffer — one of the...
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Collaboration Key to Survival of Forestry Businesses and the Planet
The world’s forests have today been given what we can only hope is a realistic reprieve. The New York Declaration on Forests marks a watershed in the global effort to contain, then halt deforestation...
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Goodyear Turning Rice Husk Waste Into Fuel-Efficient Tire Treads
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced Monday it will begin using ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity and an environmentally friendly source of silica for use...
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Google Leaves ALEC, Chairman Says Group Is 'Literally Lying' About Climate...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt admitted on Monday that his company had made a mistake in funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a political group that opposes U.S. action on climate...
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Working Towards Zero Deforestation: Lessons from Acre, Brazil
This post is our second in a series on how companies can reduce deforestation from their supply chains. Read the first post here.What do companies, governments, civil society organizations and...
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SAP Creates Dashboards to Help Global Fund Prevent AIDS, Malaria, TB
SAP SE announced today that SAP technology is helping The Global Fund— an international financing organization fighting AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria — to better understand how its financial...
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BASF, Cargill, Novozymes Achieve Another Milestone in Development of...
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have announced the achievement of another milestone in their joint development of technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials. The team has...
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CDP: Companies Taking Climate Action Generating 18% Higher ROE Than Peers
S&P 500 industry leaders that are actively managing and planning for climate-change are generating 18 percent higher return on equity (ROE) than peers and 67 percent higher than companies that do...
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Cisco, 3M Commit to White House Plan to Promote Solar Power and Energy...
Cisco, 3M, Kimberly-Clark and Jackson Family Wines have announced commitments to deploy onsite solar energy and improve energy efficiency as part of an Obama Administration call to action.In total, 50...
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Leading Italian Textile Suppliers Make Landmark Commitment to Detox
On Monday, at a press conference to mark the end of Milan Fashion Week, six of Italy’s biggest textile suppliers made landmark Detox commitments to eliminate hazardous chemicals.The suppliers Miroglio,...
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Facebook and Yelp Follow Google and Microsoft in Ditching ALEC
The floodgates have opened: Hot on the heels of Google’s Monday announcement that it was severing ties with controversial conservative lobbying group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)...
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#NewMetrics '14 Workshop Explores Next-Generation, Web-Based Sustainability...
In the world of CSR, tools enable practitioners to extend capabilities; when we think differently, we can do differently. In the new and ever evolving world of sustainability, understanding how we can...
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Two Film Contests Aiming to Teach the Importance of 'Real Food'
Recognizing the power of film as an educational tool, two contests — both geared towards highlighting the importance and complexity of the world’s food system — through short films are accepting...
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Report: $1.6 Trillion Opportunity for Small Cleantech Businesses in...
Over the next decade, investments in clean technologies in emerging markets are estimated to exceed $6 trillion, of which $1.6 trillion represent business opportunities for small and medium enterprises...
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