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Green financing surges to more than $1.1 trillion at top banks

Corporate Knights

But in September, 200 actors and filmmakers signed an open letter calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to stop accepting sponsorship money from RBC. In the fight against climate change, banks can be seen as villains – but also, depending on where they invest their money, heroes. trillion, a 55% increase over 2021.

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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Taking Action on Climate

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According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, the world is already 1.1°C C hotter than preindustrial levels, and unfortunately, the global climate crisis continues to grow increasingly dire 3. Corporate sustainability leaders have taken action. Keeping warming to 1.5°C

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Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Sustainable Fuel: United and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures Announce Collaboration With Biotech Firm to Create New Fuel Sources

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At United, we have been consistent in leading the airline industry with bold action when it comes to fighting climate change – that starts with building an ecosystem around companies like Cemvita Factory to create and commercialize new SAF technologies,” said Michael Leskinen, President of United Airlines Ventures.

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From Words to Action

Chris Hall

Stephanie Maier , Founding Global Steering Committee Member at Climate Action 100+, says the initiative’s second phase will priorit ise “ actual emissions reductions, not just targets ”. n December 2015, the world took a vital step in tackling climate change by adopting the Paris Agreement.

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COP15: To Montreal with a Mission

Chris Hall

Over the next two weeks in Montreal, government negotiators are expected to discuss and finalise the text of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which is intended to reinvigorate public and private sector efforts to reverse multiple nature crises by 2030. GBF: The Basics.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says. It solidifies the necessity of my work in clean energy and climate justice.

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

Corporate Knights

The oceans are rising and so are we,” chanted a chorus of climate strikers marching through Manhattan. Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We Presented by.