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The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

GreenBiz

Most recently the company committed to powering global operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025 as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. How will the company get there five years ahead of the initial 2030 target?

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My Green Lab Renews Partnership With the United Nations High-Level Climate Champions To Accelerate Healthcare Sector’s Carbon Reduction and Resilience Efforts

3BL Media

My Green Lab Certification was selected as a Race to Zero Breakthrough Outcome in 2021, establishing a target that 95% of labs in biotech and pharma achieve Certification at the highest level by 2030. With only seven years until 2030, we must urgently accelerate the decarbonization of all parts of the economy.

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JPMorgan Raises Targets to Reduce Financed Emissions to Align with Net Zero by 2050

ESG Today

The new targets form part of the company’s commitment, announced in October 2020 , to align its financing activities with the goals of Paris Agreement, and to help clients navigate the challenges and capitalize on the long-term economic and environmental benefits of transitioning to a low-carbon world.

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From China’s stand to Walmart’s wish list: A Climate Week news cheat sheet

GreenBiz

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

The research itself is also likely to provoke renewed criticism of the OCGI's priorities, given it focuses on CCS technologies that would in effect prolong the use of fossil fuels to power ships, rather than on alternative, low or zero carbon shipping fuels that could transition the sector away from fossil fuels altogether.

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs, President of SDSN, participated in the SDG Conference at Tec de Monterrey: "The SDGs at the halfway point to 2030"

Sustainable Development Network

The conference included the participation of professors, researchers, thematic experts, and representatives from the Federal Government and the private sector, with the objective of discussing achievements, challenges, commitments, public policies, and engagement of different sectors towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

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Standard Chartered Hires Google Sustainability Leader Kerry Constabile to Head Net Zero & Sustainability Strategy Teams

ESG Today

At Google, Kerry led climate-focused initiatives encompassing net zero, carbon market and removal strategies, and incubated the company’s 24/7 Carbon Free Energy Compact. Kerry’s hire reinforces Standard Chartered’s ability to attract best-in-class talent to our franchise and our commitment to sustainability.”.