This section explores business sustainability, decarbonisation, net zero strategies, supply chain resilience, renewable energy jobs, and sustainable leadership, highlighting the trends and practices driving the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Climate Risk & Economics
The market value of the carbon credits is expected to exceed $50 billion in 2030. Many businesses globally are endorsing carbon credit strategies to meet their net zero target. However, the scheme has equally gathered a handful of criticism for not being transparent.
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The green skills gap— the majority counting within the field of renewable energy is on track to impact seven million workers by 2030 globally, out of which more than 70% belong to the top ten carbon-emitting economies.
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The heat stress could lead to the loss of 80 million full-time jobs by 2030 globally— that is equivalent to USD 2.4 trillion. For businesses, the time has come to understand the impact of heat waves and be fully prepared to execute their prevention strategies.
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Women are more suited to sustainability lead roles but only 25% of these positions might be occupied by women by 2030. What can businesses do to effectively bridge this gender gap that would ultimately help in achieving net-zero emissions?
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Two hours after the official release of Threads, Meta's text-oriented alternative to Twitter, the app reached 2 million downloads. In a world full of social media, what are the potential environmental costs as we immerse ourselves further in the digital realm?
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In September 2021, the European Commission tweeted ‘Let's pull the plug on electronic waste’. What was tweeted then will soon come into action— as a celebrated movement to eliminate unnecessary waste from chargers.
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A study conducted in 2021 by researchers from University College London claimed that it is important to leave approximately 58% of oil, 56% of fossil methane gas and 89% of coal untouched in 2050 to stay within a 1.5°C temperature increase limit.
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The UNEP Food Waste Index 2021 states that in 2019, around 931 million tonnes of food waste were generated around the world – of which 61% came from households, 26% from food service and 13% from retail. Food is currently responsible for approximately 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Approximately 53% of the green claims made within the European Union (EU) are imprecise, deceitful, or unsupported, while 40% lack any corroborating evidence. The EU’s new green label criteria highlighted that a responsible company must ensure its brand is reliable, comparable, and verifiable.
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The circular design process is a method of creating products and services that are sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible by using the principles of the circular economy that considers reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling.
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Cradle-to-grave is a model representing a product’s full life cycle journey, starting from raw material extraction, production, use, and disposal after the end of its life. At the end of the value chain, the current standard waste management practice is either landfill or incineration, or recycling.
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Last year, as the world started getting immune to COVID-19, they turned to coal to compensate for the degraded economy. According to an IEA, this resulted in increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 6% (36.3 billion tonnes) in 2021, compared to 2020.