Corporate Knights

JULY 29, 2022

With Canada lagging far behind Europe and the United Kingdom in tackling carbon pollution from aviation, the country’s upcoming 10-year climate plan for the sector must be developed with public input and enforce a 30% emissions reduction target by 2030, climate advocates say.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The day-long session focused on aligning financial policy with Canada ’ s climate goals, including federal commitments under the Paris Agreement to reduce GHG emissions by up to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. . Treasury Department. .

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen announced today that the government will develop sectoral decarbonization plans, starting with six key emissions-intensive sectors, aimed at supporting the government’s net zero plan and interim climate targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets. Impacts of climate change on flooding.

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Matthew E. Kahn

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

In an effort to overcome the climate crisis, organizations across the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels. Our teams develop innovative strategies and technologies to help our customers mitigate and adapt to climate change.” By 2035, reach 100% carbon pollution-free electricity.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

India’s first NDC was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, with goals to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources, and create additional carbon sink of 2.5

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Australia’s Climate Change Bill 2022 was approved by the Senate on Thursday, passing the final step to pass the legislation, and enshrining the country’s emissions reduction targets into law.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 4, 2024

As climate change moves to the forefront of today’s issues, one thing is clear: Our linear economy isn’t working. Since early 2005, over 130 million kg of recycled plastics went into our products [4], with closed-loop post-consumer recycled (CL-PCR) content incorporated in nearly 300 Lenovo devices[5].

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Published on 20 Februar in Nature Climate Change , the study appeared to find that exported used vehicles generate at least 13-53% more emissions per mile than those that are scrapped or on the road in Great Britain. The data seemed to reveal substantially higher rates of carbon dioxide and pollution generation in exported vehicles.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2022

Targets under the proposed legislation include greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 43% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels – reflecting the government’s recently updated Nationally Determined Contribution commitment under the Paris Agreement – and the achievement of net zero emissions by 2050.

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ESG Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Tamara Hardegger, Managing Director at SVVK-ASIR, said: “Our member funds believe in positive change through dialogue. Partnering with Robeco allows us to deepen and broaden our commitment to positive change in the key areas of biodiversity and nature loss, climate change and systemic human rights issues.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 22, 2024

Everything about the city now has to [be seen through] this lens – what about climate change?” Halifax Regional Municipality last year imposed a climate change tax as a pillar of its broader sustainability strategy, dubbed HalifACT. “At she said in 2020.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Australian Government’s Climate Change Bill 2022 passed the House of Representatives on 4 August, meaning that it is a step towards being adopted as law. The Bill aims to enshrine an emissions target of 43% from 2005 levels by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

billion this year across nine countries, we will contribute to advancing towards our 2030 climate and energy targets while reaping the benefits of the green transition. These investments exemplify our commitment to tackle climate change and support Member States on their path to climate neutrality.”

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Australia set its climate goals into law last year, including its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve net zero by 2050. The post Australia to Issue Inaugural Green Bond appeared first on ESG Today.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For instance, by 2025/26, Lenovo will have enabled the recycling and reuse of 800 million pounds of end-of-life products since 2005 (cumulative total). We all have something to learn from one another and when we all share our points of view, best practices, and expertise, real change can happen.” Mary said. “We

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2023

If passed, the bill would also adopt new GHG targets for the state that would slash emissions by 65% (of 2005 levels) by 2035 and 100% by 2050. billion by not divesting from fossil fuels appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ireland, for example, cut greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent from 2005 to 2020 while growing its economy by 81 percent, outgunning most of the major developed economies. Can we continue to drive revenue while concurrently safeguarding our long-term environmental and social wellbeing?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

our stakeholders care about the impact we are making on topics like diversity and inclusion, climate change and economic development,” said Katherine Neebe, Duke Energy’s chief sustainability and philanthropy officer. The company’s overall carbon dioxide output is down 44% since 2005. DESCRIPTION: CHARLOTTE, N.C.,

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Schneider delivers on these commitments through initiatives such as the Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) barometer that launched in 2005, expanding its climate change consulting services business, and working with suppliers to help them halve their carbon footprints by 2025. About Schneider Electric.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a collaboration of Federal agencies, released its Fifth National Climate Assessment (the “NCA5) in November 2023. The latest assessment in the series is a broad overview of the progress (or lack thereof) made towards addressing climate change since the last report published in 2018.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Michigan’s new economywide 2050 carbon neutral proposal vaults it into the vanguard of United States climate ambition. It’s just the fourth such goal nationwide with interim targets of 28% carbon reductions compared to 2005 by 2025, 52% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050, going net negative thereafter.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2023

Between 1970 and 2004, three extreme flood events occurred per year on average in India, but after 2005, the yearly average rose to 11. Rise in both land and sea temperatures has increased the capacity of the air to hold moisture for a longer time.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

Australia and New Zealand have reached an agreement to tackle climate change that will see them collaborate alongside other Pacific countries to ensure the “resilience and prosperity” of the region.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The SEAC provides an independent, outside-in perspective on critical issues relating to sustainability and environmental policies that impact both Dow and our global community, such as climate change, ecosystem services, circularity and sustainable chemistry. Making an impact.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

The report points to the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero alliance as indicative of the industry’s new-found commitment to tackling climate change. For one thing, it would not align with Canada’s Paris Agreement commitment to reduce GHGs by between 40 and 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

EIP, a global venture capital firm, and its funds target early-stage, innovative technologies aimed at combatting climate change. PSEG is committed to addressing the causes and impacts of global climate change, but no one company can find all the solutions alone,” PSEG Chairman, President and CEO Ralph Izzo said.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The 27th UN climate summit, COP27, which got underway in Egypt on Sunday, seems to have been pre-ordained as a modest contribution to the increasingly fraught fight against climate change. . The retrofit economy needs to be seen as a nation-building-type effort over the next 20 years,” he says.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

George Favaloro, Head of Climate Solutions, North America at South Pole, asks whether the Inflation Reduction Act has overlooked the best defence against extreme weather. One year on, America’s most ambitious effort yet to help mitigate the worst impacts of climate change – the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – is taking shape.

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ESG Today

MAY 29, 2023

Founded in 2005, Brazil-based Green Domus provides a range of services including lifecycle assessments, materiality assessments, sustainability measurement and performance and sectoral analytics projects, with a focus on delivering customized decarbonization plans based on feasible reduction targets that can also reduce clients’ costs.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

The reduction in CO2 emissions per ton produced between 2005 and 2021 was 19%. . To ensure that we meet the climate targets, Essity has appointed a steering committee led by members of the Executive Management Team. Breakthrough technology: In 2021, Essity began tissue manufacturing using pulp from wheat straw.

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ESG Today

MAY 15, 2023

Herren Lee served in a variety of roles at the SEC from 2005 – 2018, before rejoining in 2019 as a Commissioner, and serving as Acting Chair in 2021. We are excited to welcome her on board.”

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 30, 2023

After last year’s budget, I submitted a media request asking the Department of Finance and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change how much they were set to spend to address the climate crisis in 2022. The official response was a shoulder shrug.

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