We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Many of the major announcements unveiled by governments and the private sector so far at COP26 demonstrate that progress is underway. There is potential for this to be ironed out at COP26. . COP26 must deliver robust rules on the Global Stocktake in 2023. . But progress is not going fast enough or far enough. C, according to?

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. Energy Efficiency: The Golden Rule for Net Zero in the Built Environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). While COP25 in Madrid had seen the launch of many such schemes by big polluters like Shell, Total and BP, with COP26 we could now see these schemes taking a central place in the draft agreement. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Carbon emissions have, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as the predominant issue in corporate sustainability discourse and strategy. One recent study found that net zero commitments now cover at least 68% of the global economy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year’s worst offender, with 55 fossil fuel contracts, is the British holding company WPP, which, in a gross contradiction, has pledged to achieve net-zero emissions in its operations by 2025. It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach . Decarbonising and Innovating towards a Net Zero Future . This article is “sponsored content” as defined by Corporate Knights’ content disclosure policy. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

New research by the University of East Anglia highlights the risks of countries relying on nature-based solutions to achieve net zero. National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach. Decarbonising and Innovating towards a Net Zero Future. SOURCE: 3BL Alerts. First Singapore company to externally assure its TCFD framework.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26. To stay below 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. For corporations, VCCs can be used to satisfy their net zero targets so as long as their actions comply with and are verified based on internationally-recognised standards such as PAS2060.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

However, despite a positive trend for climate policy acceleration as detailed in the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) tracking reports since 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow, the lag between ambition and progress since the 2015 Paris Accord will be laid bare, no matter how it is dressed up. None of this will be fun.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Countries signed up to the Paris Agreement of 2015 set out to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Managers have been under close scrutiny during the current AGM season as their past voting records have not always aligned with their net zero commitments.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Accelerating hydrogen activity.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Since COP26, some of those jurisdictions (the SEC, EFRAG and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation) have delivered pioneering legislative and standard-setting efforts.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Despite severe headwinds, India remains committed to the net zero transition. . billion by 2030, thus increasing pressure on existing resources, India has huge incentive to transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as fast as it can. . Large swathes of the global population are not so lucky. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As concerning, as of October 2022, only 24 countries updated their national commitment according to the UNCC, to reduce their GHGs, despite all countries agreeing to update their commitments one year earlier at COP26. In 2015 after COP21, when the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, we knew we needed to reduce GHG emissions rapidly.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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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Sphera

APRIL 12, 2022

Decarbonization progress has not kept pace to achieve targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, and last November, at COP26 in Glasgow, nations pledged to adjust their CO2 emissions targets by 2030 in an effort to realign with the goal of net zero by 2050. Chemical Industry Climate Commitments and the Roadmap to Net Zero.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Spending on solar PV, electric vehicles and batteries is growing at a rate consistent with reaching net zero by 2050, the report said, with the latter expected to more than double to reach US$20 billion this year. . trillion, with the majority of this capital being channelled into clean energy. trillion to be aligned with 1.5°C

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, sustainability professionals are helping thousands of communities and enterprises chart paths to Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions wherein countries, communities and enterprises commit to removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they place into it. Fortunately, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, sustainability professionals are helping thousands of communities and enterprises chart paths to Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions wherein countries, communities and enterprises commit to removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they place into it. Fortunately, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Clearly, current incentives do not sit well alongside the UK’s net zero ambitions. But the UK’s approach is seen as half-hearted at best, and it certainly deviates from the position outlined in the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 analysis, which says oil and gas exploration must cease after 2021. “If trillion in 2015 and at US$5.2

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), US$4 trillion needs to be invested in renewable energy globally every year by 2030 to achieve net zero by 2050. South Africa signed a JETP at COP26 in Glasgow, which committed France, Germany, the UK, the EU and the US to supporting its clean energy transition through US$8.5

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The number of countries and companies that have made commitments to transition their activities to net-zero emissions has increased dramatically. Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 But it isn’t enough. degrees—Celsius.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

It marks the 20th All-Energy anniversary event; and SEC hosting the UN’S COP26. The first 14 events were staged at AECC Aberdeen, and it moved to Glasgow in 2015. Indeed, the response to our Call for Papers was over-whelming, with decarbonisation and the net-zero challenge featuring repeatedly in submissions.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. As an example, heavy GHG emitters countries as China pledged for net-zero emissions by 2060, and the Paris Agreement became one of the issues driving voters to vote in the US presidential election.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 30, 2021

In June 2021, the EU adopted a European Climate Law , establishing the aim of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the EU by 2050. Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow. tCO₂ in 2015.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

This time last year, we predicted – somewhat optimistically – that 2022 would be the ‘ year of delivery ’ on the commitments made six weeks earlier at COP26. But does our track record suggest you should take any notice?

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3BL Media

MAY 18, 2022

There was a lot of media attention around COP26 last year where world leaders gathered to continue the work to uphold the actions promised by the Paris Agreement, 2015. Now, 50 years after that Stockholm meeting, it’s time to reflect: have we done as much as we could have? Why is Stockholm +50 important?

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Deirdre Cooper, Co-Head of Thematic Equities and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Environment Fund at global asset manager Ninety One, says the world’s ability to meet net zero targets will depend on countries such as China and India. What are China’s stated net zero goals?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Suga’s pledge was followed up at COP26 last November when current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised US$10 billion over the next five years to support Asia’s migration from fossil-fuel-fired to zero-emission thermal power, such as ammonia and hydrogen. The post An Increasing Sense of Urgency appeared first on ESG Investor.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

process, although those may be forthcoming in the run-up to COP26 in November. And I’m not even talking about the onrush of net-zero commitments by companies, government and others, although they seem to be happening at an almost-daily clip — so much so that they are no longer news. It noted that banks have poured more than $3.6

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

These goals include net-zero GHG emissions economywide by 2045 and net-negative emissions thereafter, along with a 40% reduction in statewide GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% by 2050. SCE’s Long History of Clean Energy Action.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the first episode of the podcast series, host, Sumit Bose , journalist, broadcaster, and founder of future Net Zero , is joined by policy expert, Jeannie Salo , USA Government Relations SVP, and sustainability expert, Vincent Petit , Head of the Schneider ElectricTM Sustainability Research Institute.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2023

Capturing the invisible There is a lot of work to be done if oil and gas firms are to be aligned with the IEA’s Net Zero 2050 pathway. Required targets include a 45% emissions reduction in methane emissions from estimated 2015 levels by 2025 and a 60-75% reduction by 2030. Members are expected to report under OGMP 2.0’s

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.

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