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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity

Corporate Knights

T hree years ago, Canada enshrined its 2050 net-zero target into law. Bringing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to a level anywhere in the vicinity of zero, net or otherwise, in the next 30 years will require a radical departure from what we’ve seen the last three decades.

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The 25 most sustainable public-sector companies in the world

Corporate Knights

By 2040, the company has pledged to reach net-zero emissions in its operations, which will expand in an effort to help the city reach its own net-zero goals. before 2050, and 75% of the citys net-zero strategy relies on these investments. In 2023, EDC provided a record $12.2

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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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Lenovo Honored With Golden Peacock Global Award for ESG

3BL Media

Lenovo has been reporting its ESG impact and goals since 2007 and is in the first group of companies to have its net-zero emissions targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. The award reflects Lenovos leadership in ESG and presence as a global corporate citizen.

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Southern Company: 2024 Year in Review

3BL Media

By the Numbers Southern Company is committed to its goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. As part of this goal, the company is aiming to reach a 50 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 2007 levels by 2030.

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The Ocean Acidification Crisis Isn’t Just About CO₂ From Bad Behaviour—It’s About Collapse Of Ocean Pasture Life

Russ George

We can continue to chase long-term global treaties and net-zero fantasies while our oceans die in real time. This biological buffering system once processed tens of billions of tons of CO annually , effectively neutralizing much of the carbon input from both natural and human sources ( Martin, 1990 ; Boyd et al.,

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Reset Connect Showcases Net Zero Business Solutions at London Climate Action Week

3BL Media

Reset Connect is the UK’s largest sustainability ecosystem and green investment event which aims to help businesses understand how to strive to meet net zero targets and improve ESG results, as well as unearth any potential green investment opportunities. Carbon Trust also attended Reset Connect to showcase its services. About Acre.

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