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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century

GreenBiz

We are committed to developing products that allow them to invest or participate in efforts to bring about a more sustainable global economy.". "We know this is an issue that many of our 40 million customers care deeply about, particularly in our retail and private banking businesses," Quinn wrote. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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NGFS Releases its First Short Term Climate Scenarios

ESG Today

The NGFS was established in 2017, with the purpose of helping to strengthen the global response required to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to enhance the role of the financial system to manage risks and to mobilize capital for green and low-carbon investments in the broader context of environmentally sustainable development.

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Accelerating Climate Action: Project Gigaton™ Marks Key Milestone

3BL Media

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. Celsius degree pathway as reported to CDP.

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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050. Skyven won the $1 million grand prize in NYSERDA’s annual 76West Clean Energy Competition in 2017.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle, register?

GreenBiz

Elsewhere, Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, introduced the " Aluminum Closed Loop " process to one of its sites in 2017, and intends to expand the use of this aluminum recycling process to other sites in the near future. .

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SDSN September 2017 Events Summary

Sustainable Development Network

The 72 nd Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 72) opened at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, September 13, 2017. The General Debate of UNGA 72 opened on September 19, 2017. This year’s conference theme was The World in 2050: Looking Ahead for Sustainable Development.