Campaigners are calling on companies to honour their palm oil commitments and take action beyond their own supply chains to ensure production, trade and consumption has a responsible future…
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The state-of-the-art Knox Innovation, Opportunity and Sustainability Centre (KIOSC) is a joint initiative between Swinburne and local secondary schools. Their goal is simple: to inspire and empower students with the skills and knowledge they need for their future careers. The facility provides hands-on learning experiences for secondary school students and professional development sessions for teachers.
Morgan Stanley has renewed its commitment to mobilize $750 billion to support low-carbon solutions by 2030, following its initial commitment of $250 billion announced in 2018, representing a three-fold increase. The commitment builds on Morgan Stanley’s leadership position as the first large U.S. bank to commit to net-zero financed emissions by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement, and its role as the sole large U.S. bank on the Steering Committee of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). The firm will achieve this commitment through increased activities such as clean-tech and renewable energy finance, green bond financing and other transactions that enable a transition to a low-carbon economy.
For over 25 years, ECOSS has partnered with communities, businesses, municipalities and government agencies to promote environmentally sustainable practices. ECOSS specializes in education and outreach, with a focus on immigrant, refugee and other communities who are disparately impacted by environmental injustices.
In the 1920s, a group of the largest lightbulb companies from around the world came together and made a plan to sell more lightbulbs: make them worse. The group, called the Phoebus Cartel, decided that their bulbs would last 1,000 hours, much lower than the 2,500 hours the bulbs had lasted before. Customers would then have to buy more bulbs. It was a foolproof plan, except for being unethical and shortsighted. The Phoebus Cartel shows the problems with a traditional linear economy that a circular economy solves. In a circular economy, the point is to look past sheer profit or growth and consider a sustainable future with wider social benefits.
Publix promotes fish caught without damage to the environment, wild populations….
green revolution has been promised before, but if the latest data across all asset classes is to be believed, this time it is here to stay.
Whether it’s in equities, government bonds, ETFs (exchange-traded funds) or hedge funds, investors around the world are demanding socially and environmentally conscious options.