Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

In its deep dive into the worlds most sustainable private- and public-sector companies, Corporate Knights revealed an undeniable fact: public-sector companies are doing essential work when it comes to moving the needle toward a greener global economy. before 2050, and 75% of the citys net-zero strategy relies on these investments.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

JPMorgan Chase wants to be the commercial bank for ‘green economy’ companies. Mon, 04/12/2021 - 00:05. investment banks — Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — have adopted net-zero financing pledges, both for their own operations and their investment portfolios. Heather Clancy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

both earned spots in the Global 100 ranking, as did telecommunications giants BCE Inc., The Corporate Knights ranking allocates spots by sectors to reflect the global economy. Canadian insurers Sun Life Financial Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp. Telus Corp. and Cogeco Communications Inc. CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5C

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Updated and more ambitious Benchmark used to assess focus companies on their net zero transition plans. C pathway set out in the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario (NZE). The Alignment Assessments further underpin this, with low evidence of companies adopting strategies in line with a 1.5°C

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since late 2021, OMERS has announced it would sell its 25% stake in Scotia Gas Networks (SGN), the second-largest gas distribution network in the United Kingdom, as well as its 80% joint stake in GNL Quintero, Chile’s largest fossil gas import terminal. And OMERS might finally be listening. .

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 02:11. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Electrification gets down to the wire. Joel Makower. Subscribe here.

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3BL Media

APRIL 3, 2022

As the lynchpin of the global economy, financial institutions not only carry a responsibility to help mitigate climate change, they are also vulnerable to its financial risks. KEYWORDS: Net Zero, SEC, Climate Risk, CERES. Senior Associate, Ceres Company Network. Technical Analysis by FutureProof.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30. With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2022

Net-zero commitments exploded last year, with the number of companies making them doubling. Race to Zero, part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, estimated that net-zero commitments covered about 68 percent of the global economy in 2021, compared to just 16 percent in 2019, a more than fourfold increase.…

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

Lenovo set a vision to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, with targets currently under review for validation from the Science Based Targets initiative. . Lenovo is committed to our vision to provide smarter technology for all and helping to decarbonize the global economy – one of humanity’s greatest challenges.”?.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

The proposed solution for net zero targets and progress aims to improve transparency and accountability, but will need to consider existing guidance. But there is still room for hope that net zero commitments – and subsequent progress on decarbonisation – can be transparent, aligned and ambitious.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ninety One’s Global Environment strategy is a high conviction, concentrated global equity portfolio that provides exposure to the multi-decade structural growth opportunity from decarbonization, by investing in the equities of companies expected to contribute to the transition to a lower-carbon global economy.

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ESG Today

JUNE 12, 2023

Launched in 2017, Climate Action 100+ is an investor initiative that has targeted the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to promote taking necessary action on climate change, and align their business strategies with net zero in order to help limit average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This will create positively reinforcing ambition loops that can drive the scale required: the right government policies and incentives allow companies to decisively invest in net-zero solutions, which in turn gives governments confidence to step up ambition. . Mitigation: Business and governments must go all in to cut emissions. .

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company’s sustainability-focused platform McKinsey Sustainability and Moody’s financial intelligence and analytical tools unit Moody’s Analytics announced today the launch of a suite of solutions aimed at helping banks identify, measure, and act on climate change-related risks and opportunities.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The company is aiming to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2040. billion in net sales were influenced by its Sustainable Impact efforts in 2021 — a threefold increase from a year earlier. In 2021, HP set its aggressive and comprehensive 2030 agenda, taking that complexity into account.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A Strategy Rooted in Decarbonization Emphasizing DP World's broader sustainability strategy, these cranes are fully powered by electricity, aligning with the company's global objective of achieving 100% carbon neutrality by 2040 and net-zero carbon status by 2050.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As the world continued to experience the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including global supply chain disruptions, resource shortages, employment challenges and inflation – these have not been easy times. In 2021, 50 billion cartons, equivalent to 1.2

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Investor network seeks to enhance net zero alignment in hard-to-abate industry. A new report from the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) – ‘I nvestor expectations of chemical companies’ transition to net zero ’ – targets increased disclosures and transparency from the highly polluting sector.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on governments to swiftly implement and intensify climate-related policy that facilitates capital flow towards the net zero transition. C no/low overshoot scenarios to set the ambition level for sub-portfolio and sector targets. At the global level, IPCC 1.5°C

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has launched the Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining to provide its signatories and investors with a “transparent, systematic, and evidence-backed” engagement tool. Gardiner said that current volumes of mined coal are “well above ” what is needed in a net zero world.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy. Accelerating the build-out of hydrogen infrastructure will radically improve national and corporate abilities to meet net zero and decarbonisation targets.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 17, 2022

percent of the global economy is circular. To reach our Net Zero carbon ambition across our value chain by 2040, we need to reduce carbon emissions also in the supply chain and enable circularity through reuse and recycling. This is where the concept of circular economy enters the stage. SOURCE: Ericsson.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

To achieve this goal, participants agreed that GHG emissions must be halved by 2030 and fall to “net-zero”—meaning that emissions still being generated are offset by reduction of the same amount elsewhere—by 2050. 2°C reduction target, on the way to achieving science-based net zero targets by 2050. Net-zero targets.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

UK asset owner now 10 years ahead of net zero target; switches climate engagement focus to auto sector. The CEPB has significantly cut back on exposures to “companies that are not aligning to the transition” to a low-carbon global energy system. On the road to net zero.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The number of firms taking a science-based approach to CO2 emission reductions doubled in 2021, according to a new report by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In Q4 2021, the organisation launched the Net-Zero Standard to provide guidance, criteria, and recommendations in order to drive a shift towards 1.5°C-aligned

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

The energy industry and many corporations believe the hydrogen economy needs to build scale at speed to become a key part of the net-zero global economy. We are very pleased to receive such interest from these highly respected firms.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

The EU only built 11GW of new wind farms in 2021, with plans to expand this by 18GW a year over the course of 2022-26, according to a report by WindEurope, a Brussels-based association. Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future.”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Both were speaking at a panel session on putting net zero commitments into practice on the second day of the event, hosted by the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) this week in Toronto, Canada.

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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. It is safe to say that climate ambition has become mainstream. C pathway .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 27, 2024

While the non-profit acknowledged that economic prosperity is linked to energy access, it argued that transitioning the global economy doesn’t hinge on demand being met, but rather on how it is met.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Despite the precariousness of the pathway to net zero, COP26 generated a renewed sense of urgency and optimism as to how to support emerging markets and deal with heavy greenhouse gas emitters. Subsidies for the production and consumption of coal, oil and natural gas was already increasing in 2021 before the invasion of Ukraine.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

According to An, the coming together of the finance sector in support of the global transition to net zero has been responsible for propelling sustainability into the mainstream. In 2019 and 2020, health and safety emerged as the top priority due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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