GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

The announcement marks a major coup for the PCAF and is a landmark green move for Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest and most recognizable private banking groups, which from 2016 to 2019 invested more than $91 billion n fossil fuels, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Ben Cushing, senior campaign representative at U.S.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

BNP Paribas is Europe’s leading funder of the development of fossil fuels, and the fifth largest in the world, according to the NGOs, providing $55 billion of financing between 2016 and 2022. The financial sector has a huge responsibility in our collective ability to comply with the Paris Agreement.”

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ESG Today

JUNE 6, 2023

Founded in 2016, Systemiq is focused on transforming five key systems—energy, nature and food, materials, the built environment, and finance—to improve our way of living and working. Created to support the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, the company is a certified B Corp.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. magnitude earthquake in 2016 in the Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh Province of Indonedia. . Delfina Grinspan. Wed, 04/07/2021 - 01:30. In the aftermath of the 6.5 Shutterstock.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 5, 2016

The parties formalized their collaboration on the conference by signing a Memorandum of Understanding today at the Climate Action 2016 summit in Washington DC. The Government of Morocco will host the conference in partnership with UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ICLEI.

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

The company noted that emissions from oil products had already declined by around 9% in 2023 from the 2021 base, and said that the new target would represent a 40% reduction from 2016, including 8 percentage points caused by contracts being classified as held for trading purposes.

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Good.is: Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

via UN Climate Change / Flickr 2016 — The Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement is a landmark international agreement that ushered in a new era in the fight against climate change. I can tell you that not a day goes by where I don't hear or meet somebody who says it changed their life."

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3BL Media

MARCH 3, 2022

pathway laid out in the Paris Agreement. It has already commenced efforts towards advancing the decarbonisation agenda, including reducing its market-based emissions by 92 per cent since 2016. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Research will span the introduction of the Paris Agreement in 2016 to the conclusion of the 2023 proxy season, with the aim of comparing the voting patterns of asset owners and managers.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

In a bold move defined during the candidature phase, the Paris 2024 Committee pledged to halve carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The 22nd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) successfully brought together climate experts, NGOs, and high-level government delegates to operationalize the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

trillion in financing to the fossil fuel sector worldwide between 2016 and 2020, according to a report, Banking on Climate Chaos, produced by a coalition of environmental advocacy groups. Still, they continue to allocate new capital to finance coal, oil and gas companies. The world’s 60 largest commercial and investment banks provided US$3.8

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was put forth as a unifying doctrine in which 196 countries agreed to work together to fight climate change and move toward a low-carbon future. Since then, country delegations have been working to identify the rules and pathways to implement the Agreement. Where did COP24 fall short?

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. This amounts to over 115,000 new electric buses just in 2016 , an increase by a factor 70 in just three years! India has stated that its planned coal-fired power plants may not be needed.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 31, 2022

degrees Celsius by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement. This can start with something as simple as offering them an egg a day — the principle at the core of DSM’s Eggonomics initiative, launched in 2016 in Malawi, where 20 local farms now produce more than 25,000 eggs per day.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2016 the earth’s average temperature was the warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880. Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. That record was matched in 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Most of those banks are members of the UN-convened net-zero banking group. .

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

trillion (all figures in US dollars) in financing for the worst climate offender, the fossil fuel industry, in the Global South since the Paris Agreement on climate change was enacted in 2016. It found that banks have provided an estimated $3.2

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United Nations’ Paris Agreement charts the international community’s plan for limiting the impact of climate change. According to the 2016 Cone Communications Millennial Employee Engagement Study : 64% of millennials consider a company’s social and environmental commitments when deciding where to work.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2024

They called for the company to align its medium-term Scope 1 to 3 decarbonisation targets with the Paris Agreement and take more ownership of its Scope 3 emissions. “Shell’s updated strategy has moved the company even further away from Paris Alignment,” says Van Baal. The ball is now in the investors’ court. “But

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 6, 2022

From 2016 to 2020, known foundation funding to climate mitigation nearly doubled, from 1 billion dollars to 1.9 At the same time, more philanthropies are directing more resources to climate. billion, an important and praiseworthy increase. This effort helped give science and frontline communities their rightful place in the deliberations.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Today, a massive climate and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing gap still persists — and even after the SDGs and Paris Agreement laid out a critical role for the private sector in 2016, the subsequent years have brought only modest increases in private investment mobilization. They failed. trillion — up from $2.5

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. However, we are barely reaching a third of the necessary carbon cuts to make the Paris Agreements a success. trillion USD per year (12.6

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This proved true in 2016 when both Brazil and the United States elected Presidents opposed to climate action. As a result, the Indonesian government committed to develop a national roadmap for a net-zero buildings sector to support its enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations’ Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Maxfield Weiss, Executive Director CDP Europe Targeting 100% renewable electricity use in our operations by 2030 In line with the RE100 commitment we made in 2016, we have achieved 84% renewable electricity consumption in 2022 as a result of increasing our on-site solar photovoltaics (PVs) capacity from 5.55MW in 2021 to 8.47MW in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

There is also pressure from local and industry-specific regulations as well as broader, global requirements like the Paris Agreement, which requires a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There is appetite for clear targets or an equivalent Paris [Agreement]-watershed moment, but time is no longer on our side.” At an individual company level, engagement is set to continue this year with AMR shareholder proposals.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The US scenario is likely to be repeated elsewhere, said Kelly Shields, Senior Officer for Banking Standards at ShareAction, which has found that leading European banks have financed upstream oil and gas expansion to the tune of more than US$400 billion since 2016. “As

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It is vital that scientists understand the levels of CO2 in the ocean to form an accurate budget and keep the world on track to stay within the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Science of the Total Environment , Rebelein, A., Int-Veen, I., Kammann, U., & Scharsack, J.P. Bryden, H.L.,

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The analysis, " Banking on Climate Chaos 2021 ," underscores that while overall fossil fuel financing did tumble significantly in 2020, the total amount of financing provided to fossil fuel firms in 2020 was still more than $40 billion higher in 2020 than in 2016, at $750 billion. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

However, shortfalls in clean energy investments persist, the IEA said, noting that “if China is excluded, then the amount being invested in clean energy each year in [EMDEs] has remained flat since the Paris Agreement was concluded in 2015”. C is to remain achievable. .

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Recently, large-scale solar generation has begun rapid expansion, growing from negligible levels before 2016 to 3% of all Australian electricity generation in 2020, representing a four-year growth rate of 1,268%.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As with most real estate investment trusts (REITs), NETSTREIT’s corporate footprint is rather small, consisting of its headquarters location that already had been renovated and optimized from a sustainability perspective in 2016. The location received a LEED Gold certification for operations and management and achieved an Energy Star rating.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness.

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