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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. During this period, it bet the farm on renewables (wind and solar) and grid modernization, building some 70 renewable power plants in 2021 alone.

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Water Risks a “Substantive” Threat to Corporate Value

Chris Hall

Environmental disclosure platform CDP has identified potential value at risk of US$225 billion related to water risk exposure among listed equities. Water insecurity can affect current outputs and constrain future growth in the private sector, said CDP. Water risk factors and stranded assets.

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Investors Still in the Dark on Climate Risks to Firms’ Finances

Chris Hall

For example, they may request assurance that the company won’t end up with stranded assets.”. This research follows up on a 2021 report ‘Flying Blind: The glaring absence of climate risks in financial reporting’, and is entitled ‘Still Flying Blind’. They have to make that decision themselves. Potential evidence of greenwashing.

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Trends & Opportunities with Standardizing ESG Disclosures in Real Estate

3BL Media

The group brings together frameworks that are referencing or building on the GHG protocol, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), CDP, Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. Eighty-four percent responded to less than 80% of those indicators. .

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

See the open letter to President Biden that supports this direction of travel, signed by more than 400 companies in April 2021. . billion has been pledged by two dozen countries and foundations to support Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities from 2021 to 2025. to halve emissions by 2030 — and how U.S. And funding of US $1.7

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