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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. Other notable accolades include maintaining double ‘A’s in the 2021 CDP Global A List for corporate climate action and water security.

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CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 Zeroes in on Bolder Decarbonisation Targets

3BL Media

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. Other notable accolades include maintaining double ‘A’s in the 2021 CDP Global A List for corporate climate action and water security.

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Finance Sector Net Zero Plans Must Respect Planetary Limits – SBTi

Chris Hall

SBTi, a partnership between the CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), notably tightened its emissions reduction frameworks last year, having previously accredited strategies aligned to a 2°C rise in global temperatures. Addressing greenwashing.

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Asset Owners Ready to Back Clean Energy Transition in Emerging Markets

Chris Hall

Beyond a small group, clean energy investment levels are still at the same level as they were in 2015,” Gould said, speaking on a panel alongside Svenstrup. . Further, the rise in clean energy spending “isn’t evenly spread”, with the majority taking place in advanced economies as well as China and India. .

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Reflections on seven years as We Mean Business Chair

We Mean Business Coalition

In 2015, when a group of us met to ensure the voice of forward-looking business was heard at the crucial COP21 Paris Climate negotiations, this observation felt painfully familiar. COP26 in Glasgow, which many have called the finance and business COP, clearly demonstrated how this movement has become unstoppable.

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Dawn of a Renewable Era

Chris Hall

At COP26, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to reduce the country’s emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030 and promised to raise the percentage of renewables in its energy mix to 50%, growing India’s non-fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 gigawatts (GW) by the end of the decade, achieving 175 GW by the end of 2022. .

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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. of the CPG market (2015-2019). trillion, double than just four years ago.