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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?

GreenBiz

Last year on the eve of Climate Week 2019, employees from big tech companies planned a walkout , demanding their employers take climate seriously across operations. The result: Amazon’s Climate Pledge ( announced during Climate Week 2019) and the company’s founder Jeff Bezos, a.k.a.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

Eric Lam 26, Gatineau, QC economic advisor on energy transition and finance, Environment and Climate Change Canada Between 2019 and 2021, private banks and financial institutions invested US$1.5 Since then, she’s risen in the ranks as a sustainability professional and ESG manager in the financial industry. trillion in coal.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

Remember 2019? As such, net-zero could soon be in the crosshairs of activists eager to point out corporate greenwash. It was a very long year. True, just 366 days (it was a leap year, after all), each one, I’m told, containing only the standard 24 hours. But it was much, much longer than that. Neither do I. Help could be on the way.

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