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Sands Releases Its 2024 Environmental, Social and Governance Report

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from the 2018 base year, with emissions down 50% in 2024. Sands aims to achieve the new 30% target, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit temperature increase to 1.5C, by 2025. The company also prevented, rescued or diverted 29% of food waste, which is targeted for 25% by 2025.

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Zero Waste vs. Climate Change: Why Waste Reduction Offers a Key Opportunity for Climate Action Through Private Enterprise

James Militzer

That’s why, as global leaders gather for yet another round of climate negotiations in the COP27 conference this month, waste is expected to be a hot topic (no pun intended). Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The Overlapping Climate Impacts of Waste . billion tonnes). off the road for a year.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Jenna Jambeck, known for advancing an understanding of marine plastic waste, has been named Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

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Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. in 2021 to 10,042 TWh, a new all-time high and 2% above the previous record set in 2018.

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Gildan Publishes Its 18th Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report

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The Company thus set a strong base for fulfilling its future environmental goals and reaching the level of decarbonization required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and early in 2022, Gildan signed the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) commitment letter. 18% reduction in water intensity compared to 2018.

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Sofidel Commits to Net Zero by 2050

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The Net Zero goal, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent removal of residual emissions to as close to zero as possible along the entire value chain , is at the heart of the European Green Deal and considered crucial to limiting global warming to well below 2°C in line with the Paris Agreement.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The announcement also connects to an international initiative under which Canada and Argentina launched a peer review of each other’s fossil fuel subsidies in 2018. The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects.