Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Waste management $20,010 4% 57% 95% 100% B- 54 64 Cisco Systems Inc San Jose, U.S. Last years leader, Australian waste management company Sims Ltd., The bank has a rapidly growing green loan book and has provided just under $40 billion in renewable-energy financing since 2019. >>Access CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5C

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Corporate Knights

MAY 22, 2023

As our climate changes, getting to net zero has never been more important. Wires AND pipes working together can deliver a net zero future, with greater energy reliability, resilience and customer choice than electrification alone. Ontario’s 2019 emission sources.

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3BL Media

MAY 29, 2025

Trane Technologies has reduced customer carbon emissions by 237 million metric tons since 2019, on track to meet its Gigaton Challenge goal to reduce one gigaton (or, one billion metric tons) of customer carbon emissions by 2030. Our customer solutions are green for green good for the planet, and good for our customers bottom line.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

By 2040, the company has pledged to reach net-zero emissions in its operations, which will expand in an effort to help the city reach its own net-zero goals. before 2050, and 75% of the citys net-zero strategy relies on these investments. In 2023, EDC provided a record $12.2 In total, SaskTel donated $2.9

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

Taking action to achieve Net Zero right now is more important than ever, as we only have a narrow window of opportunity to keep the increase in temperature within 1.5?C. The industry has made a commitment to reach net zero by 2050 at the latest. Now is the time to act and realize a Net Zero ambition.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

B2B travel platform American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) announced a series of interim and long-term climate goals, including a commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2050. Paul Abbott, CEO of Amex GBT, said: “Travel drives economic and social progress around the world.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2024

By Sandrine Duquerroy-Delesalle With six weeks to go before the European Elections , MEPs have had a busy week in Strasbourg, with many texts on the agenda for the final plenary session of the legislature (2019-2024) ! Among the texts voted was the Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation PWR.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Trane Technologies aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2050. Recognizing there was no time to waste for climate action, we put a stake in the ground and set even bolder goals in 2019 our 2030 Sustainability Commitments including our Gigaton Challenge.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Nordea announced a commitment in 2021 to become a net zero bank by 2050 , along with a series of interim 2030 targets including reductions in carbon emissions from lending and investment portfolios by 40-50%, reductions in internal carbon emissions by at least 50% and the achievement of net positive carbon contribution.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

The future is net-zero, and re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement should be seen as a signal to step up and act faster than ever before. According to the National Golf Foundation 2019 Industry Report , there are about 15,000 golf facilities and 24 million golfers. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. But it recently made a commitment to eliminate a substantial chunk of its plastic waste by 2025. . We're continuing to invest and put even more resources, even hiring some resources around the plastic waste issue.".

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. In the 2019 scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., It is the first to attain the net-zero standard as a retrofit building in the city. .

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

Yet the footprint of flying hasn’t slowed global demand for ecotourism , which was estimated to generate about US$180 billion in 2019, with revenue expected to almost double by the end of the decade. In the green building industry, net-zero is a building that produces as much energy as it uses.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

Baker Hughes advanced its sustainability goals in 2021 in several priority areas: Reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 23% compared to 2019 baseline year. In 2021, we launched “Carbon Out,” an internal company-wide initiative to take carbon out of our operations and meet our pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 15, 2024

Since 2017, KOHLER WasteLAB has been looking for ways to reimagine waste using nature as a model for sustainable processes – within nature’s cycle of growth and decay, waste simply doesn’t exist. At WasteLAB, we mapped out our waste streams from our products so that we could see exactly where they came from and what they were made of.

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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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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 10, 2022

E-waste is a big part of the problem ­— it’s responsible for 70% of the toxic chemicals found in landfill. According to ‘The Global E-waste Monitor 2020’, the world produced a record 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste in 2019. According to ‘The Global E-waste Monitor 2020’, the world produced a record 53.6 Only 17.4%

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

ADBA’s flagship event returns in December 2019, according to the anaerobic digestion representative body, “marking 10 years of ADBA and 10 years before the UK government must reduce emissions by 57%.” ” If this is delivered, the UK will be on track to meet its 2050 commitment: net zero greenhouse gases by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

A new “Jet Zero Strategy” seemingly commits UK domestic aviation to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and for all airports in England to be zero-emission by the same year. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “We want 2019 to be remembered as the peak year for aviation emissions.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

The launch of the new tool follows the setting of a goal announced by Amex GBT in September to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2050. The company has also committed to engage 67% of its airline suppliers by emissions, covering use of sold products, to set science-based targets by 2028.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. The hard work of Canadians is paying off,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said. for the average large Canadian corporation.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2019, the company set about bolstering its framework by adopting specific goals and metrics to track progress. In the meantime, we are still pursuing Scope 3 emissions-reduction initiatives that provide low- and net-zero-carbon solutions for our customers. Its Pick-n-Pull car recycling subsidiary paid US$2.5

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

World’s largest cruise company has delivered 38% reduction in food waste per person, nearing ambitious milestone of 40% reduction by 2025 ahead of 2030 goal Company remains committed to its long-term sustainability roadmap and to reducing its environmental and greenhouse gas footprint MIAMI, Fla.,

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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 Understanding emission sources in your portfolio For some organisations, scope 3 emissions may be easy to calculate, understand and reduce, such as those deriving from business flights and waste. trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Net Zero by 2040 SEE has committed to achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 across its operations (Scopes 1 and 2). Since the development of our net-zero road map in 2021, SEE has initiated five sustainability workstreams with clear objectives that are designed to achieve our ambitious commitment.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some of those memes get traction — “zero waste” and “net zero” are two relatively recent examples that are having their moment. Then, over time, they become used, and overused, to the point where they lose much of their meaning. Or, at least, they can mean whatever you want them to mean.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. Real leadership means setting the aviation sector on a path toward net-zero climate impacts as swiftly as possible. aviation sector to achieve a 35 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2035 and net zero emissions by 2050.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The UK’s Department for Transport announced today that it has awarded more than £80 million to a series of projects aimed at producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from sources including household and commercial waste, and industrial waste gases. million to Fulcrum BioEnergy for an 83.7

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Corporate Knights

MAY 30, 2022

Out of sight, meanwhile, the towering net-zero complex incorporates an entirely electric community energy system (a.k.a. The problem was that district heating utilities – some municipal, others limited to campuses – tended to rely on dirty or carbon-intensive energy: municipal waste incinerators and fossil-fuel-fired boilers. .

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nestlé announced a commitment in 2019 to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, and in 2020 the company published its “time bound plan” to reach its climate goals, which also include targets to achieve a 20% emissions reduction by 2025 and 50% by 2030.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That is why sustainability is integral to every aspect of our business—from our caring, high-performance growth culture, to manufacturing responsibly, and offering solutions to our customers that eliminate waste and combat climate change. Net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 across our operations (Scopes 1 and 2).

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