ESG Today

JANUARY 26, 2024

Climate tech startup CHOOOSE announced today the launch of a new partnership with energy giant bp, aimed at enhancing its decarbonization solutions for the aviation industry, and helping airlines to meet their sustainability obligations. As part of the partnership, bp is making a strategic investment in CHOOOSE.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Industrial decarbonization-focused private equity investor Ara Partners announced that it has closed on more than $3 billion in new capital commitments, and concluded fund raising for its third fund, Ara Fund III. With commitments of $2.8 billion, the oversubscribed Fund significantly exceeded its initial $2 billion target.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Ara Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in funding industrial projects and companies committed to net-zero carbon emissions, announced that it has partnered with HF Capital to launch Ara Energy Decarbonization, a new strategy that will seek to decarbonize conventional energy assets across North America.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Zero-emissions industrial heat and power solution provider Antora Energy announced that it has raised $150 million, with proceeds from the Series B financing round aimed at supporting the acceleration of the production of its thermal batteries to decarbonize industrial facilities.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Construction materials and services company Saint-Gobain announced a new 100 MW, 15-year renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with TotalEnergies, aimed at helping to decarbonize the company’s North American industrial sites. provides concrete solutions enabling our industrial customers to decarbonize their electricity consumption.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

Discussing designing clean hydrogen markets to support decarbonization efforts. He works across Tetra Tech on decarbonization and clean hydrogen market design within the gas sector. Since 2017 Justin has focused largely on the role decarbonization of gas can play in achieving rapid and sustainable decarbonization.

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

TD Bank Group announced a series of new ESG and sustainable finance-focused measures today, including a goal to facilitate CAD$500 billion (USD$364 billion) in sustainable and decarbonization finance by 2030. The post TD Launches $500 Billion Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Target appeared first on ESG Today.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In addition to its new value chain emissions goal, Samsonite also announced commitments to maintain 100% renewable electricity in all the company’s own operations, including its retail stores, manufacturing and distribution facilities and offices, and to continue to implement energy efficiency and decarbonization measures at its facilities.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In an era of increased electrification and decarbonization, electric utilities are playing a decisive role in shaping the clean economy of tomorrow. He attributes Enel’s successful decarbonization journey to a combination of enlightened leadership and economic common sense. . “It A green lab for a gas-free future .

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

KKR said that the investment will be used to scale Zenobē across two of the largest decarbonization opportunities in infrastructure, namely accelerating the global decarbonization of diesel fleets, and decarbonizing the energy sector through grid services.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

The new decarbonization goal will form the basis of Switzerlands second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, which the Swiss Federal Council said will be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by February 10.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

million) in a new funding round, with proceeds aimed at supporting its solutions to help hard-to-abate industries to decarbonize. Sustainability-focused behavioral science startup Signol announced that it has raised £2.5 million (USD$3.3

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC, which provided $87 billion in financing to top fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement and nearly $8 billion in loans and underwriting to 29 companies developing coal plants between 2017 and Q3 2019, has faced growing pressure from shareholders to cease financing companies heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Climate-focused investor engagement initiative Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) announced today the results of the most recent round of Net Zero Company Benchmark assessments, examining the emissions reduction goals, decarbonization strategies and climate disclosure practices of the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting companies.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2022

With over 4,500 of our suppliers engaged since the initiative’s launch in 2017, and suppliers reporting a cumulative total of more than 574 million metric tons of emissions reduced or avoided, Project Gigaton™ continues to make progress as one of the largest private sector consortia of its kind.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. Many within the energy and PR industries would argue that in publicly showcasing a carbon-intensive firm's decarbonization plans, they help build momentum in support of climate action and make it more likely that ambitious emission reduction strategies are enacted.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

California-based esVolta was established in 2017. New York-based investment firm Captona LLC, a North America-focused infrastructure investment firm focused on decarbonization and energy transition, structured the deal for esVolta. The company currently has a portfolio of operational and in-construction projects totalling about 1.5

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Corporate Knights

MAY 27, 2024

Poilievre cast a rare “yea” vote of climate action in 2017, voting alongside 277 MPs from all major political parties in favor of a motion stating that “despite the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, Canada remain committed to the implementation of the Agreement, as it is in the best interest of all Canadians.”

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Following are five BIER publications to help navigate the path towards decarbonization and improved water stewardship in the year ahead. This playbook has been specifically developed to support small/medium suppliers who are critical to achieving decarbonization across the beverage sector and beyond.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

However, from the end of 2017 to beginning of 2018, due to several changes in the department of Foxconn’s investors relations and its then-staff’s lack of familiarity with environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, the communications between both sides on this front were stalled.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Industrial players made an appearance, with chemical company Celanese and steelmaker Nucor both procuring clean energy capacity, reflecting early steps to decarbonize their industrial processes. In the fourth quarter of 2020, steel manufacturers inked two deals. .

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: There is a huge decarbonization potential in buildings that can significantly contribute to the fight against climate change. The question is why have these building decarbonization solutions not been applied at scale already? From 2017 to 2021, Rémi led the Digital Buildings marketing operations in France.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

A 2017 study published in Building and Environment estimated there are now about 600 green rating systems globally. But in the past few years, some governments have stepped into this breach by cranking up their sleepy old building codes as a means of driving decarbonization.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In addressing our own environmental impact, we better prepare our organization for future changes by reducing our exposure and risk to decarbonization, energy market volatility and potential carbon pricing scenarios. In 2017, Fifth Third set five bold sustainability goals to help prioritize our environmental sustainability efforts.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 8, 2022

was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2017 and was purchased by Toronto-based Brookfield Business Partners in 2018 for US$4.6 And even Japan is looking to restart around 30 decommissioned reactors in pursuit of decarbonization. Westinghouse, which was then owned by Japan’s Toshiba Corp., billion for its ongoing maintenance business.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2022

More than 4,500 suppliers globally are engaged in Project Gigaton™ and as of 2021, those suppliers report having reduced or avoided a cumulative 574 million metric tons of carbon emissions since 2017 by adopting various sustainability strategies. .

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Cleantech startup Cleartrace announced today that it has raised $20 million, with proceeds to be used to accelerate the growth of its carbon and energy management platform, which helps companies reach decarbonization targets. Stephen Gallagher, Chief Commercial Officer of Brookfield Renewable’s U.S.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

The French consume more dairy products per capita than anyone else on Earth, and their dairy sector represented 7% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. Decarbonizing agriculture means overhauling a massive industry. Those higher energy costs should also accelerate industrial-sector efforts to decarbonize.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Physical risk refers to climate-related events such as natural disasters, while transition risk encompasses the financial costs associated with institutional changes required to decarbonize, Anderson said. He also emphasized collaboration with individuals on the governance team to increase the likelihood of buy-in. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The collaboration will accelerate MSCI’s own decarbonization efforts and enable Schneider Electric’s climate change advisory services to be powered by MSCI ESG data. Driven primarily by stakeholder and investor pressures, market demand for climate action and decarbonization solutions has grown substantially since 2017.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

2021 Sustainability Report highlights efforts supporting decarbonization and circularity and outlines progress toward 2030 goals. We’ve made ambitious, industry-leading commitments across our business to reduce emissions and decarbonize our operations. SOURCE: Republic Services. Media Media@RepublicServices.com (480) 757-9770. [1]

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3BL Media

APRIL 12, 2024

The program aims to advance decarbonization along the value chain through the collection of emissions data, jointly defined actions for reduction and continuous upskilling. The company has set targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, which include reducing emissions by 67 percent by 2030 (base year: 2017).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Bank of America is the world’s fourth leading financer of fossil fuels , even as the imperative to decarbonize the economy to stave off the worst effects of climate change grows more urgent by the day. The Fearless Girl" statue facing Charging Bull in Lower Manhattan, New York City (June 2017). In 2019 the company agreed to pay $4.2

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ESG Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jerry Norcia, Chairman and CEO of DTE Energy, said: “Ford was the first large industrial customer to enroll in our MIGreenPower program in 2019 and we thank Ford for its continued commitment to using MIGreenPower to help decarbonize its operations and meet its sustainability goals.”

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

Department of Energy recorded 383 power outages, more than double the number of disturbances in 2017. America’s power grids are not only breaking down more frequently, but they are doing so in increasingly high-profile manners. In 2020, the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 12, 2022

CDPQ committed to exclude oil producers from its portfolio by the end of this year and pledged to reduce portfolio carbon intensity by 60% below 2017 levels by 2030. Canada’s pension industry looks increasingly out of step with at least 125 leading pension funds around the world.

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