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Where women lead, money follows

Corporate Knights

The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I I personally don’t know of any senior leaders in Canada that don’t think [climate change] is a risk, and I couldn’t say that five years ago,” says Laura Zizzo, CEO of Manifest Climate.

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IBM Announced as a Sponsor of 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28)

3BL Media

and United Arab Emirates, September 14, 2023 /3BL/ - IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced its role as an Associate Pathway Partner of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). The company issued its first environmental policy more than 50 years ago—in 1971—and published a formal position on climate change in 2007.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” Benedek took a job at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he was briefly a professor.

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Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal

GreenBiz

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons. Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs.

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Understanding the price of decarbonization

McKinsey Sustainabilty

In 2007, McKinsey developed—for a Swedish utility—the first marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) to provide such a framework (Exhibit 1). Since 2007, MACCs and their equivalents have become widely accepted. Since 2007, MACCs and their equivalents have become widely accepted. gigatons, but the actual abatement was already 0.08

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Tackling climate change together

Cisco CSR

My conversations over recent weeks with customers, partners and Cisco teams across the region have demonstrated very clearly to me that the urgency of taking action on climate change is now top of mind. None of us can tackle climate change alone, but by connecting, we can make real progress together. All free of charge.

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

3BL Media

Waste management. Guided by the SmartGreen Philosophy, Aflac identifies and evaluates environmental risks, including climate change, based on financial impact and probability. In addition, Aflac set the following climate goals: Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 75% by 2030 from a 2007 baseline.