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Aflac 2021 Business & Sustainability Report: Environment and Climate Risk Management

3BL Media

Guided by the SmartGreen Philosophy, Aflac identifies and evaluates environmental risks, including climate change, based on financial impact and probability. In 2020, Aflac achieved carbon neutrality in its Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by reducing emissions and purchasing renewable energy credits and carbon offsets.

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World’s largest companies are buying ‘largely worthless’ carbon credits from the rainforest

Corporate Knights

Revelations that almost 95% of the “avoided deforestation” carbon credits issued by the world’s largest certifier have zero climate mitigation value, have sparked calls for rigour, transparency, and accountability in the carbon credit process. I wish it were otherwise, but this report is pretty compelling.”

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United Invests in Climate Tech Provider Svante to Turn Captured Carbon into Jet Fuel

ESG Today

United Airlines announced today a $15 million investment in carbon capture and removal technology provider Svante, forming part of the airline’s plans to scale the production and utilization of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from materials including captured CO2.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

James Militzer

It is characterized by a rapid depletion of resources and a disregard for the negative impacts of business activities, leading to extreme pollution and income inequality, and driving climate change, environmental destruction and other crises. Commit to buying carbon offsets for 100% of any pollution generated by the business.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014.

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Going beyond the clean energy PPA to decarbonize the grid

Renewable Energy World

By matching energy consumption with clean energy produced elsewhere on the grid, power purchase agreements have allowed corporations to take action to address the current and future risks posed by climate change. The company is now in the process of transitioning from 100% annual renewable energy matching to 24/7 matching by 2030.