Tag: 3BL

As of the end of 2022, the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, which operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada, offered 1,860+ Greener Alternative Products in its Life Science portfolio. It’s an impressive achievement that traces its beginnings back to the late 1990s.

Life Science processes frequently require the use of highly hazardous chemicals. A group of colleagues, including Dr. Ettigounder (Samy) Ponnusamy, Fellow & Global Manager, Green Chemistry, wanted to create meaningful products while also reducing environmental harm to the planet. The collaboration that Samy kickstarted at Sigma-Aldrich, which was acquired by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in 2015, resulted in the first Greener Alternative Product in 2007 and has continued to expand ever since.

Following the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, Samy and like-minded colleagues collaborated to embed sustainability into the company’s products. The harmonization of Green Chemistry with product data led to the birth of the proprietary DOZN™ tool. DOZN™ uses the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry to transparently evaluate the relative greenness of chemicals and chemical processes. It is a free online tool that enables users to quantitively identify greener alternatives for their products or processes, without sacrificing quality or quantity.

Not only is DOZN™ used internally to re-engineer existing products, but it is also used worldwide in academia and across the Life Science industry and has so far been embedded into University curricula at four major universities. To date, the tool has been cited 78 times in scientific papers and viewed almost 18,000 times, with over 1,800 DOZN™ users. The tool helps users collect data on product or process sustainability and quantify the environmental impact of their work without sacrificing quality.

Learn more about the company’s Greener Products & Solutions initiatives by visiting its sustainability and social business innovation webpage.

Originally published in Paramount’s 2021-2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report

We use our content platforms to represent, explore, and champion issues that align with our values and impact our viewers. Our social impact is driven both through this content and in how our brands show up elsewhere – on viewers’ phones, in their neighborhoods, and with our partners in their communities.

We are using our wide array of capabilities to contribute to these discussions in a responsible way, from regular news reporting to informative documentaries and specials, to marketing campaigns and PSAs, to thought provoking television and movies. We want to be a trusted voice and a source of clear, reliable information on the issues that matter most to our viewers.

In 2021 and 2022, we launched new campaigns and initiatives that focused on challenging narratives about mental health and encouraged civic engagement, while continuing to explore issues of racial justice, the climate crisis, public health awareness, and more.

Our commitment to social impact includes not only the content we produce but also our community projects, philanthropy, and employee engagement efforts. For more information on our legacy of community engagement, see our Social Impact Review.

Spotlighting the Climate Crisis

The breadth and depth of our leading global entertainment brands lends us a unique opportunity: to incorporate climate content into our news, scripted, feature, and other types of production in ways that are meaningful and pointed to such a diverse set of audiences.

We work to spotlight the urgency of the climate crisis in a way that’s appropriate for each of our various platforms. Climate content can be active or passive, implicit or explicit. It can be in a feature with an underlying theme of climate change, or solar panels on a rooftop in a scripted series, or even severe weather coverage through news coverage.

We are members of the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Production Alliance (of which one of our key brands, Paramount Pictures, was a founding member). As active SPA members and leaders, we partner with other studios and entertainment companies committed to managing the climate impacts of productions and addressing the opportunities for climate-related content.

Around our company, we have embedded this commitment to spotlight climate change and its impact on communities, the economy, and more in a variety of ways:

The Environmental Media Association (EMA) nominated The Late Show With Stephen Colbert episode “Climate: Changed” for its 2021 awards for excellence in environmental storytelling in variety programming.

Paramount+ premiered Wasteland, an eyeopening CBS documentary series about the impact that waste is having on U.S. waterways.

SHOWTIME rebooted the science-fiction classic The Man Who Fell to Earth, with a narrative emphasis on climate and environmental themes, especially around the availability of clean water.

On CBS, 60 Minutes continued to regularly explore environmental and climate-related issues. Most recently, it produced segments on Rwanda’s endangered mountain gorillas, the drought in the Colorado River Basin, as well as the challenges of containing oil spills and the effects of climate change on Europe’s wine industry.

In the UK, Paramount’s Channel 5 joined other top broadcasters in signing the Climate Content Pledge to do more and better climate storytelling on screen across all genres. Among its programs, Channel 5 was proud of its slate of pro-sustainability content, which includes Ben Fogle, Chris Packham, Our Yorkshire Farm, and Go Green with the Grimwades.

At Nickelodeon, CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas joined Nick News for a climate change special focused on kids taking action in their communities, as well as a look at the history of Earth Day and its global reach since its inception in 1970.

Reporting on COVID-19 and Fighting Medical Misinformation

Throughout the pandemic, CBS News, Telefe in Argentina, Network 10 in Australia, and Channel 5 News in the UK have provided viewers up-to-date information about the virus and new vaccines, with regular updates from reliable scientific authorities and reputable medical institutions.

Nickelodeon’s Nick News and Nick Helps offered regular updates on the virus, as well as vaccine information as it became available to adults and children over the last year.

In July, the Smithsonian Channel aired the original documentary Vaxxed Nation, with personal stories from healthcare workers and others about how Israel’s rapid COVID-19 vaccination rollout provided a game plan for other nations to inoculate their citizens.

Produced by MTV Documentary Films and Pluto TV, 76 Days tells the story of the Wuhan lockdown in early 2020 and explores the human stories of healthcare workers and patients at four Chinese hospitals on the frontlines of the pandemic. The film won an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2021.

Making a Healthy Impact in Africa

For more than a decade, MTV Shuga’s “edutainment” model has made essential health messaging part of its storylines to help young people make positive decisions. That model has recently been supported with empirical evidence from two recent studies.

First, a study in South Africa by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine showed that adolescents and young adults who watched the MTV Shuga series were twice as likely to know about new HIV prevention tools, how use an HIV self-test, and know their HIV status, than those who hadn’t watched the show. The research in Nigeria, conducted by Tulane University, which evaluated the MTV Shuga Naija series, found similarly positive results, impacting attitudes toward gender-based violence, with victim-blaming decreasing significantly amongst both men and women. It also indicates that girls who viewed the show expressed greater motivation to use contraception.

Learn more in in Paramount’s 2021-2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report

My Special Aflac Duck waddled on the wild side with approximately 240 pediatric oncology families at the Philadelphia Zoo in May.

The free-of-charge event, exclusively for childhood cancer patients and their families, was hosted by Ronald McDonald House Charities Philadelphia Region and Eagles Fly for Leukemia.

Attendees had the opportunity to visit more than 1,900 rare and endangered animals at America’s first zoo and learned about available resources for families and patients, including My Special Aflac Duck, a free-of-charge resource designed to bring comfort and joy to children ages 3 and up during their cancer journey.

Patients and families got to see firsthand the soft and cuddly companion’s features that help children prepare for medical procedures, communicate their feelings, practice distraction techniques and so much more.

My Special Aflac Duck, designed hand-in-hand with more than 100 families undergoing cancer treatment at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, comes equipped with:

Medical play accessories such as a port-a-cath, IV, stethoscope, pulse oximeter, and syringe.Feeling cards that can help children communicate their feelings; they simply tap one of the seven included feeling cards to the lights on the duck’s chest, and it will act out that emotion.Soundscape spaceship, designed with child life specialists and psychologists, lets children listen to sounds of a forest, space, ocean, farm or amusement park — perfect for practicing distraction therapy in what can be a noisy setting.

Introduced in 2018 for children with cancer, Aflac has since added accessories to My Special Aflac Duck specifically designed to help support pediatric sickle cell patients and, to date, has delivered more than 23,000 ducks free of charge in the United States, Northern Ireland and Japan.

“We were so grateful to be able to bring My Special Aflac Duck to be among the zoo’s unique animals that would bring joy to patients and their families, giving them a night away, one full of adventure and wonder,” said Mandy Flynn, program manager, Corporate Social Responsibility. “To see the smiles on their faces, and to serve alongside other organizations with a similar mission, is a sweet reminder of why we do what we do — give support, hope, time and resources to children and families who face cancer and blood disorders.”

Since 1995, Aflac has contributed more than $168 million to the pediatric cancer and blood disorders cause, including nearly $6 million donated by more than15,000 independent agents licensed to sell Aflac products. See the My Special Aflac Duck in action and learn more about this important initiative by visiting AflacChildhoodCancer.org.

Aflac | WWHQ | 1932 Wynnton Road | Columbus, GA 31999

Z2300672

KeyBank will present three homeownership workshops in Rochester, NY. Leslie Curry, KeyBank Community Development Loan Officer (NMLS# 407614), will offer advice and details on products and assistance programs available to homebuyers.

The workshops will take place on Wednesday July 12th, Wednesday July 19th and Wednesday July 26th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the KeyBank Valley Branch located at 1475 Mt. Hope Avenue in Rochester. 

Register here 

Admission is free.

Get tips on homeownership from KeyBank

Mortgage and Home Equity Lending products offered by KeyBank are not FDIC insured or guaranteed. KeyBank extends credit secured by residential real estate without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap, or familial status. All credit products are subject to collateral and/or credit approval, terms, conditions, availability and are subject to change. NMLS #399797.

CFMA #230705-2152879

Workiva’s Ernest Anunciacion sits down with Nancy Jordan, vice president of internal audit at Cornerstone Building Brands, and Tom Rams, senior director of SOX and internal audit at 8×8. Tom and Nancy share lessons they’ve learned about ESG and assurance and discuss the importance of breaking down silos to foster the collection of more consistent, accurate data.

Listen Now

Looking for more? Subscribe to the ESG Talk podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, and YouTube.

EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 7, 2023 /3BL/ – Lab grown diamonds, certified under the SCS-007 sustainability standard, not only provide a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative, but also help reduce human rights abuses and concerns in diamond mining.

The market for lab grown diamonds is steadily growing as more consumers recognize the benefits of these sustainability rated diamonds. According to Statista the global market volume of lab-grown diamonds is forecast to be nearly 19.2 million carats by 2030. The demand for lab grown diamonds reflects the growing awareness of social responsibility and environmental protection in the jewelry industry.

The Berlin-based brand Quite Quiet, considers sustainability to be a key corporate value. Therefore, it is proud to have a partner which received the prestigious SCS-007 Sustainability Rated Diamonds certification at an A rating. By sourcing diamonds from Fenix Diamonds, the brand can offer its customers high-quality, ethical products that meet the highest standards of environmental friendliness and social responsibility.

Additionally, Quite Quiet customers receive a unique, supplemental confirmation of value in the form of a certificate of sustainability detailing the steps the producer took to earn the sustainability rating for that diamond with each purchase. By promoting lab grown diamonds, Quite Quiet is helping to preserve the environment, protect human rights and support a responsible jewelry industry.

“SCS Global Services is proud to have Quite Quiet as an accredited retailer authorized to fully represent and sell SCS 007 certified diamonds produced by Fenix Diamonds, an accredited producer. Their commitment to sustainability and transparency in the fine jewelry marketplace is an admirable achievement,” said Stanley Mathuram, Executive Vice President, SCS Global Services.

The SCS-007 standard applies to both mined and lab grown diamonds and provides jewelry manufacturers, retailers and their customers with an unprecedented level of assurance. For one thing, it places great emphasis on ethical and corporate governance. Companies must meet extensive environmental, social and governance requirements, make sustainable investments to support vulnerable communities and adhere to twelve core ESG principles. These include integrity, transparency, accountability, fairness, respect, collaboration, sustainability, responsibility, human rights, equity, diversity, and community well-being.

Another key aspect of the SCS-007 standard is climate neutrality and sustainable production practices with net zero impact. This ensures that all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions throughout a product’s lifecycle are quantified and offset through measures such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, and carbon offset projects.

Furthermore, the certification promises a transparent supply chain through comprehensive traceability of diamonds. To achieve this, SCS has partnered with Source Certain International (SCI), an expert in forensic analysis that uses state-of-the-art technology to confirm the exact origin of a diamond.

To this end, the partnership with Quite Quiet’s emphasizes its commitment to a more sustainable future in the jewelry industry.

Lab Grown Diamonds

Lab grown diamonds certified under the SCS 007 Jewelry Sustainability Standard – Sustainability Rated Diamonds, offer a sustainable solution for consumers who want to purchase high-quality jewelry without impacting the environment or supporting social concerns.

Unlike mined diamonds, lab grown diamonds are grown under controlled laboratory conditions. They have the same chemical composition and optical properties as their mined counterparts. The use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly production methods ensures that the production of lab grown diamonds has less environmental impact than traditional diamond mining.

Read more

About Quite Quiet

The Berlin jewelry label Quite Quiet was launched in 2016 and has been working exclusively with lab-grown gemstones ever since. As of July 2022, it has been Germany’s first jewelry label to offer lab-grown diamonds with independent SCS sustainability certification. All products are made of fully traceable Fairtrade certified Gold in its own Berlin workshop and in collaboration with partners in Germany. The brand was founded with the intention to create jewelry that people cherish and keep close for a long time. Clear visual principles create a calm yet strong expression. Quite Quiet believes that true luxury is created through a deep level of care for all aspects of a product. To create value from within, that care should expand beyond the physical product to how it is made and how its materials are sourced.

About SCS Global Services

SCS Global Services is an internationally recognized leader in third-party certification of environmental and sustainability claims.

Headquartered in Emeryville, California, SCS has representatives and affiliate offices throughout the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe and Africa. It is the certification arm of Scientific Certification Systems, Inc., a chartered benefit corporation. For more information, visit: https://www.scsglobalservices.com/services/certified-sustainability-rated-diamonds

For more information on the SCS-007 standard for sustainability rated diamonds, visit: https://www.scsstandards.org/standards/scs-007-sustainability-rated-diamonds

GreenEdgeSM allows customers to contribute toward their carbon emissions reduction goals through the purchase of ‘blocks’ representing a blend of renewable natural gas environmental attributes and carbon offsetsCustomers can purchase GreenEdgeSM blocks starting at $3 a monthBlocks purchased by participating North Carolina customers in 2022 offset greenhouse emissions equivalent to driving an average car nearly 1 million miles

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 7, 2023 /3BL/ – Residential and commercial Piedmont Natural Gas customers in South Carolina and Tennessee now can reduce the impact of their own natural gas usage by participating in GreenEdge – a voluntary program that offers customers the opportunity to purchase green “blocks” from Piedmont and then claim the associated environmental benefits.

Piedmont Natural Gas customers can subscribe to one block for $3 a month. Each block funds carbon offset projects that help protect forests and wetlands as well as renewable natural gas projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The GreenEdge program was designed based on customer feedback to provide access to tools and programs for customers to pursue their own carbon-reduction goals,” said Sasha Weintraub, senior vice president and president of Piedmont Natural Gas. “We consider it an important part of Piedmont’s own clean energy transformation, as well. We’re excited to now make GreenEdge available to our South Carolina and Tennessee customers.”

Piedmont made the GreenEdge program available to its North Carolina customers last summer. By the end of 2022, enrolled customers offset 367 metric tons of carbon emissions, or the equivalent of greenhouse emissions created by driving an average gasoline-powered car for 940,822 miles.

Each $3 block is equivalent to 12.5 therms of natural gas usage. Just one block is equal to 25% of an average household’s monthly natural gas usage, meaning customers who purchase four blocks could claim associated environmental benefits for approximately 100% of their monthly household natural gas usage.

Carbon offsets and renewable natural gas environmental attributes are defined as:

Carbon offset – a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions created when 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions, or other greenhouse gas equivalent, is captured, avoided or destroyed to compensate for an equivalent emission made elsewhere.Renewable natural gas environmental attribute – reflects measurable and verifiable generation of natural gas via renewable and sustainable biomass sources, such as wastewater, landfills, agricultural waste or food waste.

When a customer purchases a block, Piedmont will add the associated charges to that customer’s bill. There is no limit on how many blocks a customer can purchase. Participating customers will receive an annual report highlighting their contributions and their overall effect on GreenEdge, which is a self-funding program.

Piedmont received approval for GreenEdge from the South Carolina Public Service Commission in April 2023 and from the Tennessee Public Utility Commission in March 2023.

For more information or to enroll in GreenEdge, visit Piedmont’s GreenEdge webpage.

Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, distributes natural gas to more than 1.1 million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Piedmont Natural Gas earned the No. 1 spot in customer satisfaction with residential natural gas service in the South among large utilities, according to the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Gas Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study, and has been named by Cogent Reports as one of the most trusted utility brands in the U.S. More information: piedmontng.com. Follow Piedmont Natural Gas: Twitter, Facebook.

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America’s largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.

Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050. The company has interim carbon emission targets of at least 50% reduction from electric generation by 2030, 50% for Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 upstream and downstream emissions by 2035, and 80% from electric generation by 2040. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.

Duke Energy was named to Fortune’s 2022 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list and Forbes’ “World’s Best Employers” list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy’s illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

Media contact: Jason Wheatley 
Media line: 877.348.3612 
jason.wheatley@duke-energy.com 
Twitter: @PNG_JasonW

View original content here

In Environmental Business Journal’s (EBJ) 2023 “Water Industry Issue,” Jill Hudkins, President of Tetra Tech, discusses the state of the water industry, helping clients address water supply challenges, and harnessing water data to provide actionable intelligence for clients.

As EBJ noted in the issue, key drivers in the water and wastewater industry continue to include resilience, digitalization, personnel, and PFAS. Tetra Tech partners with clients to address these critical factors through a range of water services, from asset management and financial planning to engineering and operations.

Solving our clients’ toughest One Water challenges

“One Water strategies, intelligent planning, and digital water advances have facilitated our clients’ ability to integrate and manage multiple sources at any given time,” Jill told EBJ. “Climate uncertainty, environmental protection, environmental justice, and energy resilience for water production will drive innovation in the municipal water sector for the next decade. Some of the more proactive utilities are already implementing plans to comprehensively address these trends.”

Engineering News-Record (ENR) has consistently ranked Tetra Tech #1 in Water in its Top 500 Design Firms issue since 2003, as well as consistently ranking #1 in water treatment and desalination. Tetra Tech actively applies our Leading with Science® approach to develop global One Water solutions that recognize the water cycle as an integrated system and embrace the view that all water holds value. One Water shifts from a linear model of water management to a circular strategy, emphasizing recovery, recycling, and reuse instead of discharge.

Addressing mounting water scarcity concerns

To support the resiliency of water supplies against mounting climate change impacts, municipalities and regional water authorities are undertaking reuse projects as part of their strategy. Jill explains, “As a result, our clients are increasingly relying on recycled water from water reuse facilities to meet their water supply needs. These sources are proving to be more resilient and sustainable than other supplies being considered.” Tetra Tech has held a leadership position in this sector for nearly two decades, with signature reuse projects in Orange and San Diego Counties in California as well as Clearwater, Florida, and Oklahoma.

Transforming data silos into smart decision-making

“We are helping clients to remove data silos and unlock the potential of their data, enabling them to use new sources of business intelligence across their planning, capital delivery, and operations Teams,” Jill told EBJ. “We are supporting large water utilities in modernizing their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and partnering with clients on cybersecurity programs as they address an evolving digital landscape.”

She explains that clients must deal with high volumes of data that outputted at high frequency from various systems. Finding actionable insights to optimize operational and capital spending can be a challenge. Tetra Tech partners with clients across all aspects of digital transformation, from asset management and financial planning to engineering and operations. We also have invested in digital tools that enable our experts to turn this data into actionable intelligence for clients.

Read more from Jill in EBJ’s 2023 “The Water Industry” issue.

ZURICH, July 7, 2023 /3BL/ – South Pole, the globally leading climate company, today announced its strategic equity investment in Renewabl, an innovative tracking and trading platform specialising in the procurement of hourly matched Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs). This strategic investment aims to fuel the acceleration of clean energy procurement in the UK, Europe and beyond.

Many companies are working towards establishing renewable electricity strategies and achieving 100% renewable electricity targets. Innovative organisations have recognised that adopting a 24/7 carbon-free electricity procurement strategy can significantly increase their environmental impact and contribute to the expansion of renewable energy capacity in the grid, and additionally enhance their brand.

Unlike the traditional annual matching approach, Renewabl’s innovative tracking and trading platform will enable hourly matching of Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs), which means that supply and demand is aligned on an hourly basis. Similar to how annual matching of the supply and demand of EACs propelled wind and solar PV from expensive alternatives into affordable mainstream energy solutions, the approach to hourly matching is poised to drive a significant breakthrough in the adoption of new technologies, such as storage and demand response, and an increase in the share of renewable electricity in the grid.

The hourly granularity of EAC prices will facilitate the transfer of surplus renewable electricity from peak hours and months to periods of shortage as well as the shaving of peak hours. For businesses, the shift towards procuring 24/7 clean electricity is the crucial next step towards a zero-emissions future.

Patrick Horka, Global Director of Renewable Energy Solutions at South Pole, said, “We are excited to partner with Renewabl and will leverage their infrastructure and our global team of renewable energy advisors to support companies on their journey to reach a 24/7 carbon-free electricity target. This collaboration will empower our clients to make a tangible difference and contribute to fighting climate change.”

Juan Pablo Cerda, CEO of Renewabl, added: “We are excited to get started and address the questions that a lot of the corporate sector are asking right now: where do my certificates come from? Will they count towards my sustainability targets? Are they impactful? Can they be matched to my exact consumption? This is why Renewabl was born.“

“This collaboration will empower our clients to make a tangible difference and contribute to fighting climate change.” – Patrick Horka, Global Director of Renewable Energy Solutions at South Pole

Energy Attribute Certificates: Driving Renewable Energy Adoption

Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are tools that verify the production of renewable electricity. They certify that specific electricity has been generated from clean and sustainable sources like wind or solar power. Accredited bodies issue these certificates, with each one representing a unit of renewable electricity produced. EACs are often bought and sold independently of the consumption of the corresponding physical electricity. This characteristic allows a wide array of organisations – from businesses to governments – to support renewable energy production without directly consuming the physical electricity related to the certificate. Many corporations aspire to showcase their dedication to renewable electricity, but procuring the actual physical renewable electricity, e.g through an on-site solar PV rooftop, may not be immediately feasible or practical. In such cases, purchasing EACs enables these organisations to support the green energy sector, help fund it and scale it, and make legitimate renewable energy claims.

EACs offer an avenue towards a more sustainable future. They funnel financing to renewable energy projects, enhance transparency in renewable energy and emission reduction claims, foster the acceptance of green power, and provide a flexible way to support the growth of renewable energy, regardless of an organisation’s ability to directly consume the related physical electricity. This creates a pathway for all types of organisations to transition towards cleaner and greener sources of energy.

Enabling corporates to develop and implement renewable energy strategies

Renewabl’s cutting-edge platform aligns with South Pole’s impact-driven mission of providing companies and governments worldwide with usable climate solutions that help solve the climate crisis. South Pole’s investment as part of £1.1 million pre-seed round in Renewabl paves the way for a unique digitised portfolio management solution and marketplace, enabling seamless and efficient trading of hourly time-stamped EACs. This game-changing investment is a milestone in South Pole’s ambition to help corporates develop and implement renewable energy strategies, including the delivery of EACs. The investment also underpins South Pole’s efforts to respond to the growing demand from clients for a 24/7 carbon-free electricity scoring and the supply of hourly-time stamped EACs.

Renewabl will use the very latest technology and draw upon extensive market knowledge and industry experience. This is particularly valuable for organisations looking for a traceable and hourly time-stamped solution to guarantee the origin of their certificates, as well as compliance with emission reduction initiatives like the Carbon Disclosure Project and RE100, the global initiative that brings together businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity.

Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, TX, hosted an Independence Day Celebration, presented by Texas Capital, on Saturday, July 1. Named the “Official Independence Day Celebration for the City of Dallas,” this event was free and open to the public, bringing in over 20,000 attendees.

Participants enjoyed summer treats from a variety of food trucks, family-fun games, live music from Angel White and Prophets and Outlaws and a city-wide pyrotechnic display synchronized to a curated playlist by Dallas native and fan-favorite, DJ Lucy Wrubel. Texas Capital employees and executives attended the event to show support for the community while several were stationed at the Texas Capital tent to welcome attendees and hand out glow in the dark bracelets

As an ongoing corporate sponsor, Texas Capital will continue to partner with Klyde Warren Park throughout with the year for additional community events. To learn more about the important work Klyde Warren Park does in bringing the city of Dallas together, please visit www.klydewarrenpark.org.

About Texas Capital 

Texas Capital Bank (individually and collectively with all affiliates and subsidiaries, “Texas Capital”), is a full-service financial services firm that delivers customized solutions to businesses, entrepreneurs, and individual customers. Founded in 1998, the institution is headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, and has built a network of clients across the country. With the ability to service clients through their entire lifecycles, Texas Capital has established commercial banking, consumer banking, investment banking and wealth management capabilities. Member FDIC