Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2023

Institutional investors weigh up “competing” net zero initiative commitments. Asset owners straddling multiple net zero frameworks are concerned about the resource strain in the long-term, as decarbonisation progress ramps up on the path to 2050. We are aware of that risk, especially as the field matures,” he said.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. Charting a path to net zero. The aviation industry is at a critical time in our push towards net zero.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5

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Corporate Knights

MAY 14, 2024

trillion in financing to the fossil fuel industry in the eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, according to a comprehensive new report. trillion in financing for new fossil fuel expansion projects, investments that put the net-zero goal of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy. This sum includes US$3.3

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ESG Today

JULY 29, 2022

In the near term, the company aims to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by a minimum of 55% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline. The post Sobeys Parent Empire Commits to Net Zero Goals appeared first on ESG Today. Empire stated that its Scope 1 and 2 targets exceed the 1.5°C/Net

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

C warming target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and there must be a “rapid acceleration of mitigation efforts after 2030” if there is any hope of limiting global temperature increases to 2°C. . Average annual GHG emissions during 2010-2019 were higher than in any previous decade.” . Greater collaboration

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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. C of warming[5].

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Brighton and Hove appears to be the UK city closest to becoming net zero, according to a recent analysis 1 of emissions per capita from alldayPA , a UK call-answering customer services company. Currently, the city’s CO2 levels are below 3.0t (2.8t), which is in line with the UN’s net zero sitemap.

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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. About recent pledges: The Business Roundtable (BRT), comprised of the CEOs of the largest 200 companies in the U.S.,

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

In a report released March 16, the Public Policy Forum laid out a “leadership blueprint” for Canada’s net-zero transition that urges the federal government to help finance the sector’s efforts to reduce emissions. However, he added, the decarbonization effort must speed up. We’re just not moving with the haste we need to move.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

But a first-time commitment to transition “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science” was a high point. Granted, progress is progress.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. The Advertising Association has been at the forefront of an industry-wide initiative in the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

New research by the University of East Anglia highlights the risks of countries relying on nature-based solutions to achieve net zero. National climate strategies set out how countries plan to reduce emissions, for example by phasing out fossil-fuel use, to get to net-zero in 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C However, net zero pledges are still vague, incomplete in many cases, and inconsistent with most 2030 NDCs. Zeroing in on net zero.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

LPFA portfolio decarbonisation plan follows Net Zero Investment Framework. A key London public-sector retirement scheme has committed to a 75% cut in carbon emissions over an 11-year period, using a template established by institutional investors to guide net zero strategies. Lack of available data”.

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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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3BL Media

JULY 24, 2023

We are restating our emissions from 2019 and 2020 because of improved methodologies. We plan to set these goals in line with the latest climate projections, and the Paris Agreement, working through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This includes updating emissions factors and identifying more vendors or data sources.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Currently, more than 40% of the world’s largest publicly traded companies have made net-zero commitments as of the end of 2022, up from 20% in December 2020 5. However, only 50% of companies with net-zero targets were found to have a GHG emissions reduction plan that includes intermediate targets 6.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s the pontiff’s first major declaration on climate and the environment since the Paris Agreement was negotiated in 2015, although he has frequently opined less formally on the urgency of climate action.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

As in the rest of the private sector, where at least 20% of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, many leading investors are also focused on reducing carbon emissions. trillion from 2010-2019. Going Beyond Net Zero Emissions.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

That money — close to double the 2019 total — is making the industry increasingly visible. How about June, when Unilever committed to zeroing-out emissions from all its products by 2039 ? billion over the next five years as it moves toward a 2050 net-zero target? The trend: By Dec.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Asset owners are calling for increased policy support and financial incentives to upscale low-carbon technologies to accelerate the net zero transition, as new research from the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) warns existing global policies are not 1.5°C-aligned. C-aligned.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050. For more information visit www.northeastlep.co.uk.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

The new 100% renewable electricity target is an update to its 75% goal set in 2019. Geraldine Matchett and Dimitri de Vreeze Co-CEOs Royal DSM, said: “As a purpose-led company we aim to drive sustainable growth and so routinely evaluate what we can do to go further and faster on our route to net-zero.

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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 corresponding adjustments are a means to ensure the integrity of carbon markets and the complementary relationship of voluntary carbon markets with the decarbonization efforts under the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Looking at Cooperative Approaches as a Market-Based Path Toward Net Zero. 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). SOURCE: Tetra Tech.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company’s new sustainable finance goal replaces its current pledge , announced in 2020, to help raise €120 billion between 2019 and 2023 through energy transition-related sustainable financing solutions by 2023. Societe Generale indicated that it has already significantly surpassed its goal, reaching €157 billion by the end of 2021.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

In it, the bank pledges to become net zero by 2050 and to align its financing activities “with the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement” – including supporting companies “committed to the transition”, regardless of industry. Credit Suisse criticised for net zero plan. A busy AGM season.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Policies, regulations and wider laws are among the many elements that set the path and guide them on their journey to net zero. Between 2019 and 2022, climate activists across the country became disheartened by the weaponisation of climate action under Scott Morrison’s government. trillion) in assets.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

The letter makes a series of key demands, including calling on the bank to aligns its climate policy with the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to 1.5°C, C, and to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 48% by 2030, on a 2019 basis.

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Just Capital

APRIL 22, 2022

C goal set in the Paris Agreement. degree Science Based Target , and is informed by its goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030 across its operations and supply chains and its analysis on the carbon impact of remote work. C Science Based Target Net zero by 2030 target. Verified 1.5°C Moody’s verified 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JUNE 9, 2022

A coalition of Canadian investors has published its focus list of 40 high-emitting corporates for engagement on climate-related risks and opportunities on the road to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. . The goal is to help these companies move along this net zero path – we have to be thoughtful.” .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Recently, passive products that are ‘Paris-aligned’ – meaning they are decarbonising in line with a 1.5-2°C

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The new targets form part of the company’s commitment, announced in October 2020 , to align its financing activities with the goals of Paris Agreement, and to help clients navigate the challenges and capitalize on the long-term economic and environmental benefits of transitioning to a low-carbon world.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We are aligning our business strategies with the international consensus – outlined in the Paris Agreement – that we must limit global warming to below 1.5°C, In 2019, Tapestry set goals to reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions 20% below 2017 levels and reduce Scope 3 emissions from freight shipping 20% below 2017 levels, both by 2025.

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