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Fossil Free Banking Alliance to Help Conscious Consumers Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Bank.Green’s new Alliance, made up of 8 founding members, aims to fuel the global movement towards a more sustainable and climate-resilient financial sector.
‘Toxic Tours’ Shed Light on Communities Most Affected by Petrochemical Pollution
MARKETING AND COMMS - New platform from Break Free from Plastic explores the hardest-hit frontline communities in the world, from India to Ohio. After hearing each story, viewers can choose to view another location, or take actions designed to make local and global impact.
After Disaster in Texas, Community and Industry Come Together to Transform Water Infrastructure
FROM PURPOSE TO ACTION: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE TOGETHER - Disasters such as the aftermath of the February 2021 ice storm that left millions of Texans without running water lay bare the urgent need for updated utility infrastructure across the US. This would involve repairing and replacing hundreds of thousands of miles of water piping — but what should be used in their place?
Salesforce, JetBlue Accelerate Shared Journey Toward Sustainable Air Travel
COLLABORATION - Salesforce has joined JetBlue’s Sustainable Travel Partners program to accelerate sustainability of employee business travel; while JetBlue becomes the first airline to leverage Salesforce Net Zero Cloud to track emissions.
Seeing Stars: Reconnecting Humanity with a Flick of a Switch
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - When the city of Franeker, Netherlands, turned off its lights for a night to reveal the now-rarely seen splendor of the night sky, it was a reminder of our inextricable link to each other and our universe.
14 Innovators Win Grants for Solutions Aimed at Sustainably ‘Seeding the Future’
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The startups and NGOs have won the inaugural Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge, from the Institute of Food Technologists, aimed at scaling innovations that will help transform the food system.
Water May Be Life, But It Is Never a Given: Learnings from the Navajo Nation
COLLABORATION - It’s 2022, and 1 in 3 homes on the Navajo Nation Reservation still do not have a tap or toilet. In 2021, human rights nonprofit DigDeep collaborated with Kohler to launch the Water Is Life microgrant program — which is working to make safe water a reality for all residents of the Navajo Nation.
Climate Action Plans: How Do We Know If We’re Making Real Progress?
WALKING THE TALK - In our experience, it’s challenging to proceed from knowing your company’s emissions profile to crafting a climate action plan to reduce it. Successful companies will adopt the right mix of strategies for them — which is where the bigger challenge comes in.
BlackRock's Fink Expounds on Need for Decarbonization, But Not Divestment
WALKING THE TALK - In his annual letter to CEOs, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says that, while decarbonizing the global economy is ‘the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime,’ he also asserts that ‘divesting from entire sectors will not get the world to net zero.’
Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund Propels Completion of LanzaJet’s First SAF Plant
CLEANTECH - The financing partnership will enable LanzaJet to bring its alcohol-to-jet, net-zero sustainable aviation fuels to commercial scale.
Enterprise-Wide Engagement Unearths Sweeping Solutions for Reining in SO2 Emissions
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The team at Vestolit — part of polymers, materials and infrastructure leader Orbia — worked closely with the corporate sustainability team to find modifications to plant operations that promise significant reductions in the entire enterprise’s sulphur dioxide emissions.
Climate Failure, Growing Social Divides Top WEF’s Global Risks for 2022
THE NEXT ECONOMY - The World Economic Forum's annual global survey of experts finds only 1 in 6 are optimistic and only 1 in 10 believe in our ability to implement a stable, sustainable global recovery.
2022 Is the Year of Net-Zero Integrity
WALKING THE TALK - All net-zero commitments are not made equal. 2022 must be the year of authentic climate action — and for that to happen, net-zero strategies must rise to their full potential as a tool to combat climate change.
New Tool Captures Employee Scope 3 Emissions Data, No Matter Where They Work
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - New solution from WeSpire, Cox and South Pole dramatically improves how companies measure and reduce employee emissions in hybrid and increasingly remote work environments.
How Brands and Retailers Can Collaborate to Activate Sustainability, Drive Growth
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - Why are so few brands and retailers partnering to communicate their sustainability attributes at the moment of truth — when shoppers are in the right mindset to buy? A new guidebook offers 10 guiding principles and many inspirational examples to help guide brands and retailers through the process.
Report Presents Decarbonization of Fashion Industry as $1T Investment Opportunity
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Estimating an investment opportunity of $1 trillion, a new Fashion for Good-Apparel Impact Institute report breaks down the funding needed by solution category and identifies the types of funders best placed to take advantage of the opportunity and benefit from the positive returns.
HSBC to Phase Out Coal Financing by 2040 — Will Wall Street Follow Suit?
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - HSBC announces its thermal coal phase-out plan on the same day as a Sierra Club-Center for American Progress report calls out Wall Street’s outsized contribution to the climate crisis. Can the necessary sea change be made in time to avoid disaster?
How Carbon Removal as a Service Is Poised to Aid the Clean Energy Transition
CLEANTECH - Energy company Occidental and its subsidiary, Oxy Low-Carbon Ventures, are on a path to achieve net-zero emissions in their own operations and those associated with their products before 2050. And they are helping others reduce theirs, too.
Racing to Zero, Part 1: On Track, or Playing with Numbers?
WALKING THE TALK - Many companies say they’ve reached their net-zero goals, but is it really that easy? We can make the numbers look good, at least in the short-term; or we can strive for greater impacts — towards real zero and beyond. If we don’t take this challenge seriously today, we won’t be in business in ten years’ time.
While Travel Was Quiet, JetBlue Was Busy with Sustainability
CLEANTECH - During COVID, JetBlue announced several sustainability targets — including a net-zero target by 2040, as well as a set of short-and medium-term targets to help them get there. We asked Carl Otto, JetBlue’s Senior Analyst for Sustainability and ESG, how they'll do it.
