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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

They recognized that without reliable climate-related financial information, assets could be mispriced and capital could be misallocated, meaning the global economy potentially could face a tumultuous transition to a low-carbon future. So, the TCFD was born. It also standardized decision-useful information for the financial community.

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Chemours Takes the Next Step in Its ESG and Sustainability Journey; Commits To Set Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

3BL Media

Since announcing our Corporate Responsibility Commitment goals in 2018, we’ve continued to challenge ourselves to achieve more, including setting a more ambitious goal to achieve a 60% absolute reduction of operations-related GHG emissions by 2030,” said Mark Newman, President and CEO of Chemours.

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What is the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

Sphera

The SBTi is part of the World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Business and a collaboration of WRI, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the UN Global Compact. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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Forward-looking Metrics Needed to Minimise Plastics Risks

Chris Hall

CDP disclosure expansion aims to provide more visibility on plastics for investors. . Improved visibility of the role of plastics in business processes and supply chains will help, according to environmental disclosure platform CDP, but forward-looking metrics will also be needed to guide future investments. .

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Since I shared with my guests a deep concern that the world was not making demonstrable progress towards the halving of global emissions the 2018 UN IPCC Special Report on 1.5 Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter.

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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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