GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The State of Green Business 2021. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11. Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. That’s changing. Joel Makower.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

degree Celsius pathway, joining Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative. Our net zero strategy addresses both the corporate and investment levels. It reemphasizes our commitment to ensuring that our people and portfolios all work together to achieve critical climate goals.”. SOURCE: AllianceBernstein.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 22, 2022

Julie Segal is the senior manager of climate finance at Environmental Defence and a 2021 Corporate Knights 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader. . Over the past two years, investors and other financial players have collectively made “net-zero” pledges and recognized a just transition as a central tenet.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: At Qualcomm, we believe we can help address the environmental, social, and economic impacts of climate change by working together across all sectors of society. What does it mean to achieve net-zero? Why did Qualcomm decide to commit to net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050? Why set interim goals?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2021

Episode 274: The nuances of net zero. Fri, 06/25/2021 - 02:00. Why the world needs better climate pledges. Net zero meets green finance (14:25). Investors, banks and other members of the global financial community are aligning around net-zero investment priorities, but what does it mean in the short term?

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

DESCRIPTION: On the heels of COP26, investors are not only thinking about the climate-related risks of companies within their portfolios, but they are also considering whether to make new investments or maintain existing investments in high-emitting companies or countries going forward. Engaging for Net Zero.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. In May, the court found the government’s inadequate climate strategy to be unlawful for the second time. Lord Deben was a principal witness for the prosecution.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2025

The organizations key functions include defining and promoting best practice in emissions reductions and net-zero targets in line with climate science, providing technical assistance to companies who set science-based targets, and providing companies with independent assessment and validation of their emissions reduction targets.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Over the last decade and a half, a standard form has emerged in which governments and corporations have made their promise to do so: the net-zero target. As a strategy, the net-zero target has been criticized by climate advocates; at its worst, it can be a vague, unenforceable greenwashing program. In the U.S.,

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The award addresses how Essity successfully has worked with its suppliers in the fight against climate change. Essity’s target is to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and we can only achieve this if we work together with our suppliers,” says Jessica Nordlinder, Vice President Global Procurement, Essity.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For a problem as large and complex as climate change, we need low-tech and high-reliability solutions that can rapidly scale. We know that trees work: restoring 3 billion acres of native forests would yield the largest natural carbon sink on Earth and accelerate progress towards net zero goals by mid-century.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Globally, there is an urgent need to take climate action and address related risks and opportunities as we transition to a lower carbon economy. The physical and transition effects of climate change can influence a business’ bottom line and its ability to compete in the future. SCALING UP: 2021 HIGHLIGHTS.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2024

KPMG published the Net Zero Readiness Index in 2021, 1 a few weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow. The event resulted in 153 countries putting forward new emissions targets for 2030 and more than 90 percent of world economic output and global emissions being covered by net zero agreements.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Episode 258: Hacking climate solutions, finding 'good work'. Fri, 03/05/2021 - 02:00. The role of time horizons and relationship banking in financing a net-zero economy. The coming net-zero backlash. Hacking the climate crisis (21:10). Heather Clancy. Week in Review. Is your job meaningful? (32:40).

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ESG Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of limiting climate change, announced the appointment of climate action and sustainability veteran David Kennedy as its new CEO.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions. Thu, 04/22/2021 - 00:12. Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Thu, 07/15/2021 - 00:01. Companies and countries all over the world are committing to net-zero goals and pledges to the SDGs; diversity, equity and inclusion goals; human rights — the list goes on. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy.

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3BL Media

MAY 10, 2022

The report, The Changing Climate for Credit Unions , finds that more than 60% of all credit unions—and at least $1.2 trillion in credit union assets—are at physical risk from climate change. The report argues that it is incredibly risky for credit unions to ignore the climate threats with 60% of U.S.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal. Tue, 04/06/2021 - 02:11. Consider a recent global survey conducted by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, focused on climate change risks and their related costs. Fewer than 1 percent said climate change is not a serious problem.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2024

On January 19, 2023 Lenovo announced its commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, in alignment to the Science Based Targets initiative’s Net-Zero Standard. One year later, Lenovo is on-track to meet its near-term 2030 emissions reduction goals, the first milestone in the journey to net-zero.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”. Whether they’re doing so and backing it up with action is a different issue.”.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 12, 2022

Canada’s pension beneficiaries are increasingly worried about how their pensions are being invested in the face of a rapidly worsening climate crisis. A growing number of Canada’s largest public pension administrators and investment managers have made net-zero-emissions commitments.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: There is a huge decarbonization potential in buildings that can significantly contribute to the fight against climate change. Episode 2: Beyond the scope of net-zero buildings. From 2017 to 2021, Rémi led the Digital Buildings marketing operations in France. SOURCE: Schneider Electric.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00. And climate change remains a big one. . Infinium, spun out of another company called Greyrock Energy , says because the biofuel (dubbed an "electrofuel") is made with clean energy and CO2, it's a "net-zero carbon" fuel. Amazon aims to clean up aviation. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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3BL Media

JUNE 9, 2022

June 9, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today released its 2021 ESG and CSR Report, highlighting the company's steadfast commitment to enhancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts for all Truist stakeholders. In 2021, Truist supported $15.3

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. Clean Creatives hopes others soon could follow suit. "We

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Canada’s federal government is preparing to announce climate targets for 2035 as it faces both demands for more ambitious emission-reduction policies and major backlash against the measures it has already announced. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the federal carbon levy in 2021.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Originally published in the SEE Impact Report 2022 To mitigate the impacts of climate change across the value chain, global packaging provider SEE drives strategic initiatives to manage and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our net-zero road map is a key component to our pledge to leave our world better than we find it.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2023

That was one of the central conclusions of Corporate Knights’ latest Earth Index * analysis, which found that G20 countries as a whole were not on track to meet their stated reduction targets from 2020 to 2021. Globa lly, emissions will need to decrease by 4% every year if the planet is going to reach net-zero by 2050.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K. As the U.K.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

-based think tank InfluenceMap of the 45 biggest asset managers, which collectively hold US$72 trillion in assets under management, found that many are not only far off track from meeting their climate goals – they have regressed. Climate change is here. But only with dramatic, immediate climate action.” It is terrifying.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A Dutch appeals court issued a ruling in Shell’s favor, reversing a landmark 2021 ruling holding the company responsible for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from its customers’ use of its products, and ordering the company to dramatically reduce emissions by the end of the decade.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

As a global company in hygiene and health, Essity plays a leading role in driving change to reduce the company’s climate impact. In 2021, new and updated sustainability targets were adopted, that included a commitment to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. In 2021, the outcome was 59%. ?.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Vanguard, one of the largest investment managers in the world, announced today that it is withdrawing from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), a major multi-trillion dollar group of investment managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Voters in Switzerland approved the country’s commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, with 59% backing the Climate and Innovation Act in a national referendum on Sunday. The law also includes a requirement for all companies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2021

Wed, 06/09/2021 - 00:05. It is time to revisit the business strategy and discuss scenarios, transition plans to net-zero and reporting. Commit to properly embed climate change and biodiversity loss considerations into economic and financial decision-making. What the G7 meeting means for boards of directors.

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