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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. The company says that it plans to spend more than a billion euros on heat-pump technology and that it will invest roughly 2.5 billion in hydrogen technologies between 2021 and 2026.

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Canada to Phase Out Public Fossil Fuel Financing

ESG Today

According to a government statement announcing the launch of the new framework, the initiative forms part of Canada’s commitment under the Glasgow Statement, a 34-nation agreement signed at the 2021 COP 26 summit , to shift public finance away from fossil fuels and in support of the energy transition.

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Chemours Announces Joint Venture Agreement With BWT to Enable the Capacity and Innovation Required by the Transportation Fuel Cell Market

3BL Media

Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), European Green Deal, and other future-oriented policy frameworks on the EU and member state level, will drive significant changes to the energy, transportation, and manufacturing industries as well as spark innovation in clean technology with billions of dollars in new climate and energy spending.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

The EU’s climate commitments mean that we will replace those smokestacks with clean technologies, sooner or later. In 2021, she organised and participated in a High Level Panel with TIME Magazine as part of WEF’s media programme for the online Davos Agenda, together with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Robert Downey Jr.,

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Investing in the EV Revolution

Chris Hall

Benedikt Sobotka, Co-Chair of the Global Battery Alliance, highlights risks and opportunities for investors across the EV value chain. In 2021, almost one in ten global car sales were electric, according to the International Energy Agency , which means EVs have quadrupled their market share since 2019. Dynamic market expansion.

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Correcting Climate Imbalance

Chris Hall

A popular answer to this is that the worst polluters should pick up the tab. “The decarbonisation of the global economy requires new sources of financing,” Frédéric Vonner, Sustainability and Sustainable Finance Leader at Big Four accountancy firm PwC Luxembourg, tells ESG Investor. “It

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Implications of the New Green Industrial Policies

Chris Hall

For some years now, pundits and experts across the political spectrum have been proclaiming the end of the neoliberal era – the political and economic paradigm that dominated the global economy since the early 1990s, characterised by globalisation, free trade and the state’s retrenchment from the economy.