GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

Lenovo set a vision to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, with targets currently under review for validation from the Science Based Targets initiative. . Lenovo is committed to our vision to provide smarter technology for all and helping to decarbonize the global economy – one of humanity’s greatest challenges.”?.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on governments to swiftly implement and intensify climate-related policy that facilitates capital flow towards the net zero transition. C no/low overshoot scenarios to set the ambition level for sub-portfolio and sector targets. At the global level, IPCC 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This will create positively reinforcing ambition loops that can drive the scale required: the right government policies and incentives allow companies to decisively invest in net-zero solutions, which in turn gives governments confidence to step up ambition. . Mitigation: Business and governments must go all in to cut emissions. .

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Using shore power to reduce emissions aligns with our overall sustainability strategy and advances our journey to reach our net-zero emission goal by 2050 and help the communities and customers we serve.”. utility to voluntarily set goals to stabilize emissions, and in 2020, committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

That record was matched in 2020. The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C More than 2,000 businesses and financial institutions are working with the SBTi to reach net-zero emissions, and that number is increasing rapidly.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HP has reported on its Sustainable Impact goals and progress for more than two decades and was among the first companies globally to publish its complete carbon footprint over 10 years ago. The company is aiming to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2040. The company reported that $3.5

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Following “strong feedback” on the connection between climate and nature, Faber said the ISSB plans to immediately advance work on the climate standard, making explicit connections to natural ecosystems and human capital aspects of the net zero transition. . “We

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The 2021 Progress Report, ‘ Scaling Urgent Corporate Climate Action Worldwide ’, found that companies committed to cut emissions in line with climate science now represent US$38 trillion of the global economy, more than one-third of global market capitalisation (up from 20% in 2020). Grounds for optimism.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

That’s over one third of the global economy. In 2020, a campaign coordinated through Coalition partner CLG Europe boosted the EU’s confidence on raising its climate ambition. Align the climate policy advocacy of the company’s trade associations, alliances and coalitions with the goal of net zero by 2050 .

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

During lockdown, the global economy was disrupted so severely that it triggered a shift in mindset among business leaders to recognise the importance of ESG issues in creating a more resilient future. “ When I attended COP25 (Madrid) in 2019, there was talk of the climate crisis, but there was not a lot of urgency,” she says.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Aluminium producers, recyclers, rolling mills, can makers and industry associations have set the target having stressed the need for enhanced recycling to support the IEAs Net Zero 2050 goal. degree target.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to the IEA, there has been a major escalation in energy efficiency since 2022 , with “investment in energy efficiency is up to 45% since 2020” Electric cars now represent a fifth of all cars being sold in the world and heat pumps outsell gas boilers in most markets.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Global States and Regions Annual Disclosure 2019 , said to be the most comprehensive account of state and regional climate action released to date, summarises data from 124 states and regions from 35 countries, representing US $17 trillion – 20% of the global economy, with a combined population of 669 million people.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

“Regardless of geopolitical developments, decentralised energy systems based on renewable energy sources increase energy independence and security, while lowering costs for end-consumers and contributing towards the decarbonisation of economies,” says Marco van Daele, Co-CEO and CIO at SUSI Partners, a Swiss-based infrastructure fund manager.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

trillion in assets in 2020 ( Opimas LLC ). ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. As a result, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. As a result, ESG investment has almost doubled over the last four years, reaching $40.5 Conclusions.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Hydrogen fuel dispenser at a transport refueling station in Aachen, Germany in January 2020 (image credit: Alexander Kirch / Shutterstock.com). The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 13, 2022

According to the report , 2,253 companies with a combined market cap of one third of the global economy – a total of $38trn – are now working with the SBTi. . In 2020, COVID19 caused a decrease in emissions of 5% globally, whereas companies with science based targets cut their emissions by 12%.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. In fact, the Arctic is warming at two times the global average. In 2020, the Arctic as a whole had its warmest year on record since data collection began in 1979. trillion in 2020.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2024

At a wider, global scale Aviva Investors believes climate t ransition planning – which the UK is set to mandate reporting on – across the whole global economy can provide a series of positive self-reinforcing actions and information flows. Current scenario models are typically long term.

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Sustainable Round Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Their science proved spot-on, as we hit 420 PPM in 2020 and Exxon’s scientists recommended raising and hardening their extraction rigs to save Exxon money. Now after COP28 the whole world officially agrees: our sustainability requires a transition to a global economy that has moved beyond fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Mon, 06/01/2020 - 00:00. Let’s begin with a few headlines: Southern Company commits to net-zero emissions by 2050. Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. Shell plans to achieve net-zero emissions across its product manufacturing operations. Joel Makower. When the U.S.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA AR-SA VIENNA, 22 October 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the advancement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Li stated, “We must seize the opportunity to use the disruptive impact of the pandemic on the global economy to seek collaborative solutions to drive the 2030 Agenda.”

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

By 2018, the government had enshrined the goal of creating an “ecological civilization ” — essentially a global life economy — into China’s constitution. This strategy has generated impressive results: To take one example, from 2013 to 2020, as reported in Bloomberg , China reduced air pollution nearly as much as the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The announcement indicated an emphasis on “high emission sources”, which suggested oil and gas production, and the Vegan Society said it was disappointed that “there has yet to be any global commitment on reducing methane from agriculture.”. Carbon trading.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. “In The report said: “Government support for fossil fuels in 51 countries worldwide almost doubled to US$697.2 billion in 2021, from US$362.4

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. Basically, nature positive is biodiversity’s net zero with a critical difference: While net zero is a destination, nature positive is a journey. This is more than the combined value of the market cap of Toyota, Bayer, WM and Shell.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Invesco has launched its Invesco Environmental Climate Opportunities (ECO) Bond Fund , which offers UK investors income and growth while supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The letter, signed by BlackRock Head of External Affairs Dalia Blass, was sent in response to a letter from the Attorneys General sent in August accusing BlackRock of acting with “mixed motives” in its pursuit of an anti-fossil fuel and pro-net zero agenda, indicating “rampant violations” of its fiduciary duty to the states’ pension investors.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In September, 90 organizations led by the World Wildlife Fund urged the world’s central banks to add a strong climate commitment to their mandates: a 50% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030, as well as net-zero emissions and full biodiversity recovery by 2050. Create money to tackle a crisis.

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B the Change

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our global economy is built for growth. That famous Limits to Growth report was updated in 2000 and 2020, finding the same result. In a degrowth model, companies will need to look for opportunities that contribute to net-zero, biodiversity, and social justice. Growing companies are praised as our model of success.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is a through line that connects Meadows and Hicks to Rebecca Henderson, who published “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire” in 2020. and globally. Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) She’s also a commissioner for the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty. percent of its GDP.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Less than a third of Americans (31%) currently believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 U.S. The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. percent of the nation. . ui dolphins, and blue penguins.

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