B the Change

MAY 29, 2025

reduction by 2030 (from 2019 levels) compared to the 43% necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C It is well understood by now that the climate crisis, ecosystem health, and human well-being are all interlinked. Acting on climate change is not just an environmental imperative — it’s also becoming a business necessity.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2025

BPs decision to retreat even further on its climate commitments has elicited strong criticism from a group of its institutional investors, which are concerned that the companys revised strategy isnt consistent with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming nor in line with its pledge reach net zero by 2050.

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Eco-Business

JULY 24, 2025

A safe climate is now a legal obligation, not just a moral one – and states failing to deliver could be held accountable. And citizens could seek to hold governments to account for a failure to safeguard their human rights if their own or other countries fail to take adequate action to ensure a safe climate. Keeping 1.5°C

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 2, 2025

For Ikea, whose CEO reaffirmed the companys commitment to the Paris Agreement, sustainability is fully integrated into Ikeas business model and core to its brand proposition. The company has reduced its GHG emissions by 25 percent since 2019 and is committed to no deforestation and to implementing regenerative agriculture practices.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We If you want to know what HSBC's stance on climate change really is, look at what they fund, not their fluffy marketing," he added. Pull Quote.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

Climate Change

3BL Media

JULY 7, 2022

Human-induced climate change threatens to disrupt nature and impact the lives of billions of people—and may disproportionately impact women, according to the United Nations. When decision-making measures intended to mitigate the effects of climate change don’t equally call on women leaders, inequalities are further widened.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

That money — close to double the 2019 total — is making the industry increasingly visible. When experts at CDP, a nonprofit that tracks sustainability commitments, surveyed 479 food and ag companies , only 75 reported having emissions commitments in line with the Paris Agreement. The trend: By Dec.

Regenerative

3BL Media

JULY 24, 2023

Originally published in Paramount's 2021-2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report The impacts of climate change continue to accelerate around the world and are projected to worsen each year unless we take serious collective action on a global scale.

Climate Change

3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As one of the world’s greatest challenges and global disrupters, climate change impacts us all. Tapestry and our brands are responding to the urgent call for collective action and doing our part to mitigate climate-related risks to our business, our people and the communities where we live and work.

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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.

Banking

GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The green groups behind the report have warned of an "alarming disconnect" between the global scientific consensus on climate change and the ongoing practices of the world's leading banks. trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking is based on 155 ESG factors in eight pillars: climate change, employee relations, environment, finance, governance, human rights, stakeholders and society, and ESG performance. Fortune, Change the World List: 2020, 2019. Fast Company, Most Innovative Companies: 2020, 2019.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The common denominator underlying these ventures is blockchain, a digital ledger technology used for dozens of intriguing corporate applications intended to address climate change — from tracing ingredients across supply chains to verifying, purchasing and trading carbon credits. . This push can’t be a single person’s battle.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Climate Action Network (CAN), an umbrella group of civil society organizations, argues that the government should aim for a 60% reduction from 2019 levels. The majority ruled that “climate change is real” and that “it is caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities and it poses a grave threat to humanity’s future.”

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Today, the airline is proud to share that the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a coalition that defines and promotes best practices in emissions reduction targets, has approved American’s 2035 target as consistent with levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. What this means.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week, dozens of corporations re-upped goals, reflecting that the private sector is internalizing what’s at stake — physically, reputationally and economically — if climate change is left unchecked. Some of the most notable (some announced in the run-up to Climate Week) include: . Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

Luxury brand Burberry announced today that its climate goals have been approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as meeting the criteria to keep global warming to 1.5°C C in line with the Paris Agreement. C warming ambition, as required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Net Zero

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

revised the group’s mission statement in 2019 to reflect “new pledges” to stakeholders in five key areas. The shift to Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation was in August 2019. How are companies doing in meeting the pledges designed to address climate change challenges?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turning down a client contract to run a major PR campaign for an oil major that consistently has lobbied against climate action and has not even signaled its intention to be part of a future net-zero economy is one thing, but more clients from carbon-intensive industries do not fall quite so easily into the climate laggard category.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Global branded food company Hormel Foods announced today a series of new climate targets, including a goals to reduceabsolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its operations 50%, and within its supply chain 27.5% by 2030, compared to a 2019 base year.

Supply Chains

GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Since then, the asset manager backed two proposals at the annual general meetings of both Chevron and Exxon, related to the manner these companies conduct themselves in relation to Paris Agreement targets. If the European Union agrees on a border price for carbon, what should it be? Why do this?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. The new market-based instruments approved by Article 6 encourage international carbon trading, long seen as the likeliest way to incentivize global climate action.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

At the time it seemed like an outlandish pledge that garnered little faith, including from former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Dame Christiana Figueres — who Bezos approached to work with, and who famously didn’t believe him at first. Beating the Paris Agreement’ is a huge statement to make.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The SCC is an outgrowth of the SEMI Sustainability Initiative , and is the first global, ecosystem-wide effort to advance the semiconductor industry’s response to the challenge of climate change. KEYWORDS: NYSE:DD, DuPont, Semiconductor Climate Consortium. Read more here: [link].

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Waste reduction and management, while not glamorous, are increasingly seen as low-hanging fruit as the world seeks climate solutions that can help keep global warming below the 1.5° Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The Overlapping Climate Impacts of Waste .

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

The report points to the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero alliance as indicative of the industry’s new-found commitment to tackling climate change. For one thing, it would not align with Canada’s Paris Agreement commitment to reduce GHGs by between 40 and 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. 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.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 25, 2019

Laxenburg and Paris, 25 July 2019 – Today, the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium , a collaborative initiative operating as part of the Food and Land-Use Coalition (FOLU), launched the report Pathways to Sustainable Land-Use and Food Systems.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a letter from the organization to ING Group Chair Steven van Rijswijk, Friends of the Earth argued that under Dutch law, companies have a “duty of care” obligation to not create dangers that can cause avoidable damage to people or property, which it says applies to climate change. We will of course respond in court if necessary.”

Climate Change

Sense and Sustainability

DECEMBER 8, 2021

and 1 degrees to spare if we are to meet the global targets outlined in the Paris Agreement. degree) to prevent catastrophic changes in the climatic system seems unlikely. As one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change, not surprisingly, adaptation is a priority.

Climate Change

3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Agreements were reached on targets for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and its framework, emphasizing the importance of resilience and the need for financial, technological, and capacity-building support. Technological Innovations: COP28 showcased various technological advancements and innovations aimed at combating climate change.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). More than 1,000 Gt (42 percent) occurred in the last 30 years.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2024

Businesses around the world are facing stringent sustainability targets, from the Paris Agreement[1] – a legally binding international treaty on climate change – to decarbonisation strategies that aim to significantly reduce or eliminate carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) from the atmosphere.

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