Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Between the news media and the protests, it would have been easy to get the impression that this year’s United Nations climate summit, known as COP26, was all talk and no action. Highlights from the climate summit There was plenty of good news worth highlighting: Global methane pledge: The U.S. 24, 2021. Let’s keep going.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

COP26 focused the attention of governments and businesses on a key targe t: limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C by halving global emissions by 2030. As of November 2021, more than 1,000 companies spanning 53 sectors in 60 countries have set 1.5 A version of this article first appeared on Harvard Business Review.

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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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion in 2021, from US$362.4 billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. billion in 2021, from US$362.4 billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. “In Making mining green.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. As an example, EU ETS reached in November 2021 an all-time spike of 66€/ton of CO2. – Voluntary carbon offset markets (VCM).

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

That’s over one third of the global economy. Similarly, in 2021, the We Mean Business Coalition mobilized 400 American businesses to sign a letter in support of President Biden’s 50% emission reduction target by 2030. These successes paved the way for greater ambition at the G20 Summit last October and COP26 the month after.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In its inaugural report, the 2021 GCS Index provides scores for 100 entities: 99 countries and the European Union (EU27). The new Just Transition for South Africa part­nership announced at COP26, whereby the UK, United States, France, Germany, and the EU promised $8.5

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2022

In the last week of 2021, we lost three giants of humankind. Johan Rockström, who leads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has proposed a solution for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions, a “carbon law” that would cut emissions in half every decade (and would apply to cities, nations and industrial sectors).

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

C by the end of this century Updated pledges since COP26 in Glasgow take less than one per cent off projected 2030 greenhouse gas emissions; 45 per cent is needed for limiting global warming to 1.5°C Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.” C in place.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

2021 was an uncommon and tough year due to COVID19 guiding our lives. In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. 2021 Sustainability Summary. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

In November 2021, governments came together at COP26 and made a series of commitments to tackle global warming, with 130 countries pledging to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and 190 agreeing to phase down coal power. The conflict has also had severe implications for the global economy and energy markets.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

C mitigation pathway. Sheldrake says that companies need to take responsibility for how carbon credits factor into their transition plans to ensure that their use accelerates climate actions and does not delay or displace emissions reductions via the decarbonisation of the global economy.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2021, Carney exposed the schism enterprise leadership must address : “ Value in the market is increasingly determining the values of society.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 9, 2025

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a UN-backed initiative founded in 2021 ahead of the COP26 climate summit that brings together global banks committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net zero emissions by 2050.The

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021. Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. Despite unnerving headlines, democracy is far from dead.

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