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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

But 40% of the reductions came from divesting, or selling off, dirty assets, which from the atmosphere’s perspective is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. To boot, Enel managed to deflate its carbon bubble almost exclusively by retiring high-carbon assets. For instance, 87% of oil giant BP’s 36.5-million-tonne

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

With the addition of the new tools created in partnership with Normative, CDP, BSR and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the SME Climate Hub will be able to better enable SMEs to make strategic and impactful emissions reductions, track their progress, and demonstrate climate leadership.

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