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ESG efforts take on ever-greater importance in the business world, the grocery industry has diligently kept pace with this trend By Progressive Grocer Staff As environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts take on ever-greater importance in the business world, the grocery industry has diligently kept pace with this trend. Retailers, suppliers and solution providers alike […]

Events are free unless noted. Please email calendar submissions at least three weeks in advance to events@oregonian.com. ONGOING Chrysanthemum Festival: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through Nov. 19. Take part in floral art workshops, plant cultivation talks and horticulture tours and delight in the garden adorned with chrysanthemums. $14; Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 N.W. Everett St.; […]

Bakersfield College Delano Campus hosted a ribbon-cutting on Tuesday to unveil its new, state-of-the-art Regenerative Agriculture Education Center. In collaboration with The Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation, The White Buffalo Foundation and TomKat Ranch, the college’s Agriculture Department was finally able to open the center following its approval in 2021. Partnering with the California Renewable […]

South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Sunday it received certification for the world’s largest liquid hydrogen storage tank design from Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an internationally accredited certification body. The tank boasts a 40,000 cubic meter capacity, capable of storing up to 2,800 tons of liquid hydrogen at cryogenic temperatures as low as -252.8 […]

CHEMICAL ENGINEER Gopi Latpate from Aurangabad sold his IT firm ValuD Consulting to Fortune 500 multinational JLL in October 2018 and invested in 50-plus India-focussed start-ups in energy, technology and social empowerment. He, along with long-time friend Balasaheb Darade, who left his job in U.S. to work for social causes in India, thought of starting […]

Last week the Expert Group on Carbon Removals held its third meeting as a part of the continuing process of developing the Carbon Removal Certification Framework and necessary methodologies. Once developed, these methodologies will outline specific and technical criteria for each removal activity type for certification under this framework. Invited experts presented methodologies for a […]

Haffner Energy (ISIN code: FR0014007ND6 – Mnemonic: ALHAF), has been awarded the Silver level in the 2023 ESG* assessment campaign carried out by the independent body EthiFinance. This overall assessment and the high scores obtained by the Company reward its performance in 2022 and underline its progress since 2020. In addition to acknowledging the continuous […]

Extreme rock weathering is a carbon removal technology that is attracting investment from likes of Microsoft The technology, based on mineral-rich rock such as basalt, has the ability to both sequester carbon in oceans and return nutrients to tired soil ERW startups are looking to raise money via carbon removal credits, with current rate around […]

Financial-assistance deadline extended The U.S. Department of Agriculture is extending the deadline for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program to Jan.13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners more time to apply for assistance. The original deadline was Oct. 31. The Discrimination Financial Assistance Program delivers on Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act, […]

In Canada, EverWind Fuels, Canada’s most advanced large-scale green hydrogen project, announced its collaboration with CertifHy for the pre-certification of its green ammonia production as RFNBO according to the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). The report concluded that EverWind’s Phase I project design is set up to be compliant with the CertifHyTM requirements for […]