Month: September 2022

Kaluza unveils roadmap for energy companies to avoid 10 million tonnes of CO2e by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Kaluza, a leading energy software platform, today announces the launch of ‘Mission Transition: Chapter Two’, the second phase of its industry-pushing sustainability pledge to become a carbon negative business, and enable energy companies to accelerate decarbonisation around the world. The report details Kaluza’s three sustainable business goals to accelerate the energy transition: Reduce its clients’ cost to serve by 50% Reach 100 million people with opportunities to manage their energy use and Enable the avoidance of 10 million tonnes of CO2e emissions by 2030 which is equivalent to 165 million…

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Ceres urge investors, companies, and policymakers to turn the year’s climate victories into even more ambitious action

Stuart Mitchell

With Climate Week 2022 set to commence next week, Ceres is calling on investors, companies, and policymakers to raise their climate ambition, building off the momentum of the recently signed U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to make the most of this game-changing moment in history.   The convening couldn’t come at a more critical time. In the first half of 2022 alone, climate-linked extreme weather events caused an estimated $65 billion in losses worldwide. That’s double the losses from the same time period in 2018.  And, with global greenhouse gas emissions…

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Whole Kids Foundation Invests $1.5M To Grow 500 Edible Gardens for Schools and Nonprofits Serving More Than 300,000 Students

Stuart Mitchell

Whole Kids Foundation, a nonprofit focused on children’s nutrition and wellness, announced that 500 garden grants will be awarded to schools and nonprofit organizations to start or expand edible learning spaces. The $1.5 million investment will support more than 300,000 students by providing Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grants in 49 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and nine Canadian provinces. The program provides $3,000 grants to K-12 schools to support educational gardens on school grounds. Nonprofit recipients supporting children’s programming are funded to support edible learning spaces in non-school environments…

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Rockwell Automation and University of Melbourne Partner on Decarbonization Projects

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Melbourne and Rockwell Automation have begun a new partnership to collaborate on research activities, jointly develop training and work together to use digital innovation to help manufacturing and resources industries reach their decarbonisation goals. According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by both organizations on July 27, Rockwell will contribute engineering resources and product training and the University of Melbourne will bring its academic and research expertise, and world class innovation infrastructure. “Decarbonisation is now front of mind for Australian industrial companies,” said Anthony Wong, regional…

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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners establishes sustainability-linked Supply Chain Finance Programme with Rabobank

Stuart Mitchell

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has established a new sustainability-linked supply chain finance programme, structured and operated by specialist food and agri bank Rabobank[1]. Rabobank will provide funding to the programme with other banks expected to participate and grow the facility over time[2]. The programme, one of the first of its kind in the global beverage industry, incentivises and rewards suppliers to make sustainability improvements in their businesses. It will provide competitive financing that is linked to a number of sustainability-driven KPIs for suppliers that, when met, unlock incremental discounts against…

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