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The 2021 Global 100 most sustainable corporations
The 2021 Global 100 most sustainable corporations
• Corporate Knights • PR Newswire
With the COVID-19 pandemic devastating economies, there were fears that sustainability considerations would be forgotten. In fact, as Gilles Vermot Desroches, senior vice-president for sustainable development at this year’s most sustainable corporation, Schneider Electric, says, “the opposite is true.”
OTPP aims to go net-zero by 2050
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required) • Financial Post • Investment Executive
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) Board has no plan to immediately divest its sizable fossil fuel holdings as part of a new goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its portfolio by 2050.
The State of Green Business 2021
In January 2020, we looked ahead and confidently saw more engagement, new initiatives and continuation of the forward march of progress of sustainable businesses. We took in the enormity of the problems facing humanity and the planet. And then 2020 happened.
New blueprint for U.K.’s first hydrogen town by 2030
• H2 View
Britain’s hydrogen ambitions are set to be turned into reality with the unveiling today of a major new blueprint, called Britain’s Hydrogen Network Plan, part of which plots the course to deliver the U.K.’s first hydrogen town by 2030.
Amsterdam embraces radical new economic theory
• Time
In April 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, Amsterdam city council announced it would recover from the crisis, and avoid future ones, by embracing the theory of “doughnut economics” as laid out by British economist Kate Raworth in a 2017 book.
Oil firms claim ‘net-negative’ carbon emissions
• CBC
Enhance Energy and Whitecap Resources say they are storing more emissions underground than they are producing from their operations with the use of carbon capture technology. Enhance buys the CO2 from a refinery and a fertilizer plant in central Alberta.
Many boards lacking ESG expertise, study finds
Despite growing pressure for companies to address risks arising from ESG-related issues, there is a severe lack of relevant expertise among board members of U.S. companies. Research found 29 per cent of the 1,188 Fortune 100 board directors examined have relevant ESG credentials.
Flows into exchange-traded ESG products spiked in 2020
Global assets invested in environmental, social and governance (ESG) ETFs and ETPs reached US$187 billion at the end of 2020, according to a new report from London-based consultancy ETFGI. Assets invested in ESG ETFs and ETPs increased 206 per cent year-over-year.
Responsible Mining highlights abandoned mines
• Mining.com • World Mine Tailing Failures
The Switzerland-based Responsible Mining Foundation issued a statement on the second anniversary of the tailings dam burst in Brumadinho, Brazil, highlighting the presence of 223 billion tonnes of tailings stored in more than 30,000 storage facilities including active, inactive and abandoned facilities.
Achieving a net-zero emission supply chain, fairly cheap
• GreenBiz
Setting ambitious net-zero targets for company’s core business is one thing, but achieving deep decarbonization across the entire supply chain is quite another. After all, company supply chains can often be complex webs stretching right across the globe.
A legion of ‘upcyclers’ is turning trash into treasure
Recycling, as an exercise in sustainability, has always been fraught. It’s been almost 40 years since the introduction of Canada’s first municipal recycling program, and yet much of what is produced as packaging, consumer or industrial goods still doesn’t get recycled.
Data biggest hurdle for investors addressing biodiversity
Data is the biggest barrier to making investments that support biodiversity, with 70 per cent of 222 surveyed investors putting it above being unable to value natural capital and lacking internal expertise, a new study by RI and Credit Suisse has found.
Japan designs earthquake, flood-proof skyscrapers
VIDEO: With natural disasters becoming more frequent, Japanese engineers and architects have pushed the boundaries of technology and design to create resilient, disaster-proof buildings.
New energy efficient way to heat and cool buildings
• National Research Council of Canada • Sustainable Biz Canada
Earth tubes are a new and viable way to reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool a building. Earth tube exchangers enable the transfer of ground source energy to a building using its existing ventilation system.
LC3 Innovation Centre planned for Metro Vancouver
Simon Fraser University has been selected to establish an urban climate centre in Metro Vancouver, through a $21.7-million federal endowment. The endowment will help to identify, finance and scale up local climate solutions, building retrofits and electrification of transportation.
Low carbon on cement possible with CCS
• Globe Newswire • Sustainable Biz Canada
Recognizing the substantial role large-scale CCS has in reducing greenhouse (GHG) emissions, Edmonton’s Lehigh Cement, the International CCS Knowledge Centre and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group are conducting a feasibility study of the cement plant’s carbon capture system.
Musk offers $100M for ‘best’ carbon capture tech
Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk took to Twitter to promise a $100-million prize for the development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions, a critical part of many plans to keep climate change in check.
Boosting renewables integration in remote communities
Climate and energy policy advancements: Eliminating diesel in Canada’s remote communities is a series providing insights, details and analysis on each of the specific policies it is advocating under its Renewables in Remote Communities program and the Indigenous Off-diesel Initiative.
Biden poised to freeze oil and coal leasing on federal land
• Financial Post • Construct Connect
President Joe Biden is poised to suspend the sale of oil and gas leases on federal land, which accounts for about a tenth of U.S. supplies, according to four people familiar with the matter.
EU may call for global end to coal, fossil fuel subsidies
European Union countries may call for a global phasing out of polluting coal power and an end to fossil fuel subsidies as the bloc commits to an aggressive line on climate change diplomacy.
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
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Nov 28 2024
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Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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