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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

McKinsey & Company declared carbon neutrality in 2018 and has set emissions reductions in line with the Paris Agreement, including a 60 percent reduction in purchased energy by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050. It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040.

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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Biden already has rejoined the Paris Agreement, committed to advocating for environmental justice and rolled out a government-wide focus on racial justice. Today, 90 percent of S&P 500 companies publish sustainability reports, up from 20 percent in 2011.

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3M Achieves Science Based Targets initiative Validation, Strengthening Commitment to Decarbonization and Customer Innovation

3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

C trajectory of the Paris Agreement. 3M has been documenting and reporting scope 1 and 2 inventory since 2002 and has been developing its scope 3 emissions inventory since 2011 in line with the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard.

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AllianceBernstein Commits to Net Zero Pathway

3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

degree Celsius pathway by 2050, in support of the Paris Agreement. (“AB”) (NYSE: AB), a leading global investment and research management firm, has announced its commitment to achieve netzero emissions, working to align its business operations and a range of investment strategies with a 1.5-degree

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Investing in Valuing Nature

3BL Media

MAY 31, 2022

Since 2011, scientists, engineers and economists from both Dow and The Nature Conservancy have worked together to analyze the various services that nature provides to our operations and community. Now we are sharing our journey through our newly published blueprint for Valuing Nature.

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3M Commits to Reduce Emissions Across the Value Chain by More than 40% by 2030

ESG Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

C trajectory of the Paris Agreement. 3M said that it has been developing its Scope 3 emissions inventory since 2011 in line with the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard, including participating in the pilot of the standard.

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Selfridges unveils ambitious initiative incorporating new retail models and an attempt to shift shopping mindsets

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Underpinning Project Earth is a broader commitment to Science Based Targets and to achieve Net-zero carbon by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement. Since Project Ocean in 2011, Selfridges has been focused on changing mindsets around sustainability both inside our industry and in conversation with our customer.

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Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Eco-Business

MARCH 16, 2022

million tonnes of emissions reductions that Indonesia achieved from keeping its forests standing between 2011 and 2018 represents just 4 per cent of its reduction target under the Paris Agreement, a new study calculates.

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New Ideas, Better Teamwork in Pursuit of Paris Goals

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The alliance says: “Companies need to work now to develop and implement credible transition plans aligned with the Paris Agreement.” According to a recent BloombergNEF analysis , the 2011-2015 low-carbon to fossil energy supply investment ratio was US$0.5 low-carbon versus US$1 for fossil fuels.

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This Week’s People Moves: Ex-PGGM CIO Takes AustralianSuper Role

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A former central banker with over 30 years’ experience in financial services, Lindeijer served as Dutch pension provider PGGM’s CIO between 2011-2020 and was responsible for €250 billion in pension funds under management.

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Companies Willing to Provide Biodiversity Data Ahead of COP15

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development between 1997-2011 biodiversity and associated ecosystem services losses have already cost an estimated US$4–20 trillion per year in ecosystem services owing to land-cover change and US$6-11 trillion per year from land degradation.

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Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate

Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2021, insured natural catastrophe losses reached around US$110 billion, according to Swiss Re, making it the third-costliest catastrophe year since 2011.

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The Current State of Play on Financing Loss and Damage

Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Challenges for assessing loss and damage financing The Paris Agreement discusses loss and damage using the phrase “averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage”. One report showed that after floods and landslides in Nepal in 2011, 90% of well-off people sought government support, while only 6% of the very poor did.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. Are thorium or fusion credible solutions ? Perhaps in 10 or 20 years but we need to act NOW !

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. 17, there were 53 signatories representing 18 industries. .

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Pierre Poilievre is loud on carbon pricing but silent on climate policy

Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 11, 2024

president-elect Donald Trump has vowed to pull out of the Paris Agreement as he did in his first term, and Poilievre could be tempted to follow Trumps lead. (As Poilievre is unlikely to feel bound by Liberal government targets that have been adopted with little provincial input. Indeed, U.S.

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The late pope and the Paris Agreement

Eco-Business

JUNE 9, 2025

But as we prepare to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and hail the importance of continued multilateralism, I think we in the Chinese-language world must remember the vital contribution that Pope Francis made to that deal. In the front row sat President Milei of Argentina, Pope Francis’ homeland.

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Would a Harris presidency tackle plastic pollution?

Corporate Knights

JULY 31, 2024

In 2011, Harris sued water bottle companies for claiming that their plastic bottles were “100% compostable and recyclable.” from the Paris Agreement in 2020. Other environmental advocates said Harris’ track record as California’s attorney general could indicate a willingness to take on big plastic polluters.

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