ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

of the Paris Agreement, key for advancing the establishment and growth of a global carbon market. Prior attempts to agree on the carbon markets regulations, including at COP28 in 2023, did not succeed over the perceived weakness of the proposals.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

Worldwide, there are more than 95,000 private companies with annual revenues over US$100 million, compared to only 10,000 public companies over that threshold, according to a 2023 report from investment management firm Hamilton Lane. By 2023, Bosch reported that 99% of its electricity requirements were met by green energy.

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3BL Media

JUNE 18, 2025

These goals should align with targets outlined in the Paris Agreement , as well as state climate targets and other established benchmarks. percent from 2023 to 2024, and supply increasing by only 3.1 With this baseline, municipalities can then determine what goals they can achieve in both the short and long term.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2025

Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report Lenovo has responded to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)s urgent call for corporate climate action by committing to align with 1.5C On January 19, 2023, Lenovo announced its SBTi validated target to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Net Zero Benchmark from the investor-led engagement initiative assesses 41 carbon-intensive Canadian companies – including oil companies, public utilities, transportation companies and manufacturers – on their progress against climate goals to increase alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

NZAM was launched to mobilise and support asset managers in taking ambitious action, helping them set interim targets and track their progress aligning investments with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C The UN’s annual climate conferences (COPs) have always been catalysts for increasing action.

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ESG Today

JULY 2, 2025

In a recent update , the Commission reported that the EU is nearly on track to hit its 2030 climate goal, and noted that it has already achieved a GHG emissions reduction of 37% as of the end of 2023 on a 1990 basis, despite 68% economic growth over the same period.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2025

billion) between 2023 and 2025 in ESG-themed investments which contribute to the SDGs JPY 400 billion of this is reserved for climate solutions. Divergence However, while 45% of asset owners said they use the Paris Agreement as a framework to identify sustainability outcomes, just 25% of asset managers could say the same.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Renewables 2024 report, the IEA’s flagship annual publication on the sector, seems to find that the world is set to add more than 5,500 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity between 2024 and 2030 – almost three times the increase seen between 2017 and 2023. times its 2022 level by 2030.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

However, subsequent Conservative prime ministers – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – “didn’t understand the urgency”, according to the Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer, Lord Deben, Conservative Party peer and former chair of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) from 2012 to 2023.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JUNE 16, 2025

While AI data centers require significant energy , McKinsey estimates that cloud-powered technologies  can accelerate 47 percent of the initiatives required to achieve the global 1.5° pathway by 2050 under the Paris Agreement. 2 “ Cloud-powered technologies for sustainability ,” McKinsey, November 9, 2023.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

The new decarbonization goal will form the basis of Switzerlands second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, which the Swiss Federal Council said will be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by February 10.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The firm has said previously, including in its 2023 ESG report, that its “financed emissions targets are premised on the global economy limiting warming to 1.5°C C scenario, noting that the lower bound remains in line with the Paris Agreement goal to keep temperature increase well below 2°C. C above preindustrial levels.”

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3BL Media

MAY 12, 2025

Sands aims to achieve the new 30% target, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit temperature increase to 1.5C, by 2025. In 2024, the company also released its first low-carbon transition plan, which outlined a new 30% emissions-reduction target that complements its existing 17.5%

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 7, 2025

investment from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) catalyzed 142,000 new clean energy jobs in 2023 alone , with construction-related employment in energy outpacing the broader economy. million jobs in 2023, adding nearly 75,000 positions from the year before – the most of any sector. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

trillion in 2023, spanning across corporates as well as sovereigns and supranationals. As a 2023 paper by JP Morgan Asset Management notes, engagement can be more nuanced compared to the corporate market, depending on the political complexion of the country. By contrast, the equity equivalent was valued at US$111 trillion.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Investors look to address increasing misalignment with asset managers and remedy issues identified in 2023 stewardship review. The statement was developed from the Asset Owner Aligning Expectations roundtable which looked to address the central challenges identified in the 2023 UK Asset Owner Stewardship Review.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As countries look to submit new pledges under the Paris Agreement next year, it is vital they underpin top-level targets with concrete regulations and policies to ensure implementation. For example, a new law in the EU requires companies to create plans that lay out how they will transition to net zero.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 26, 2025

In 2023, under her leadership, NSIA published its first Impact Report, followed by its inaugural Sustainability Report in 2024 — both landmark achievements for sovereign wealth funds in Africa. Weve had to strike that balance – as a signatory of the Paris Agreement – versus our national priorities. billion core portfolio.

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B the Change

MAY 29, 2025

Therefore, this Impact Topic emphasizes action and requires smaller companies to have a climate action plan with measurable targets that don’t rely on GHG measurements but still demonstrate their commitment to the Paris Agreement. Leverage tools for supplier engagement: Supplier Engagement Guide (Exponential Roadmap Initiative) 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 4, 2025

It is when 190+ countries will come together to review their national climate plans and investments 10 years after adopting the Paris Agreement and amid intensifying climate impacts and geopolitical tensions. As a result, between August 2023 and July 2024, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6%

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2025

BPs decision to retreat even further on its climate commitments has elicited strong criticism from a group of its institutional investors, which are concerned that the companys revised strategy isnt consistent with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming nor in line with its pledge reach net zero by 2050. billion and US$2 billion.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 7, 2025

A report by the Grantham Research Institute last summer found that the number of cases filed against fossil fuel companies each year has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Lawyers for the youth say the court will be asked to provide "meaningful remedies for the governments ongoing violation of Charter rights."

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many commitments under the Paris Agreement are funding-contingent, and thats very much in peril. USAID work has had a far greater effect on the climate fight than its raw spending, which totaled around $600 million on climate efforts in 2023, would indicate.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In a report this fall, the government-appointed Net-Zero Advisory Body urged the Liberal government to set a 2035 target of 50% to 55% below 2005 emission levels, saying the tougher goal was needed to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement. The Canadian Climate Institute has estimated that in 2023, GHGs were 8% below 2005 levels.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

With revenues of 36 billion in 2023 and offices in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electrics universe is vast. Corporate Knights received dozens of complaint letters in 2023 after announcing that Schneider Electric was once again ranked one of the 100 most sustainable companies.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 15, 2025

GFANZ is a global network of financial institutions supporting the Paris Agreement goal of a transition to net-zero by 2050. According to GFANZs 2023 progress report, 675 institutions from 50 countries were members of its affiliated alliances in these sectors. Heres a backgrounder with questions and answers on recent events.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Most people dont know about the Paris Agreement, let alone the significance of 1.5C. Since the Paris Agreement, Canadian bank investments in fossil fuels havent significantly changed, Brooks notes, with the Big Five banks funnelling nearly $1 trillion into the industry between 2016 and 2023, according to Stand.earth.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 21, 2025

nationally determined contribution towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement by setting a 2035 target of cutting GHG emissions by 61-66% from a 2005 baseline. public companies in 2023. The outgoing Biden Administration announced the U.S. And the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 25, 2025

Boralex was ranked 15th last year, 21st in 2023 and 23rd in 2022. The aim was to have its targets approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a leading science-backed framework for companies to align their emission-reduction efforts with the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

Some US banks are distancing themselves from the level of transparency and ambition required to align with the Paris Agreement, says Slling Grann. Most notably, it has relaxed its stance on Paris-alignment, arguing that there are a wider range of net zero pathways that align with the Paris Agreement, as opposed to 1.5C.

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Eco-Business

JULY 21, 2025

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, governments are now preparing their 2035 climate targets. Yet with the US withdrawing from the agreement, and deepening trade tensions between the West and China, international cooperation is on shaky ground. They happened once more with China under the auspices of Scholz in Berlin in 2023.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 10, 2025

[link] Copy By Zhou Xiaozhu, Dialogue Earth 7 minute read June 10, 2025 On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Argentina was the first to say it might not stick with the Paris Agreement. billion originally pledged in 2022.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The latest data show that European Union countries slashed emissions by over 8% in a single year in 2023, the largest drop in decades outside the COVID-19 years. Take Europe, for example: the continents nations have seen massive progress in cutting emissions. The EU remains on track to cut emissions 55% below where they were in 1990 by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 23, 2025

The shift began with the Paris Agreement in 2015, when the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created. Established in 2021, the International Sustainability Standards Board launched a set of global standards in 2023 that have been instrumental in facilitating worldwide adoption.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 9, 2025

But as we prepare to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and hail the importance of continued multilateralism, I think we in the Chinese-language world must remember the vital contribution that Pope Francis made to that deal. In the front row sat President Milei of Argentina, Pope Francis’ homeland.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

As of 31 December 2023, US$856 billion in assets were benchmarked to MSCI ESG and climate indices, compared to MSCI ACWI Index’s US$76.4 Storebrand makes the distinction between Paris-alignment reporting and financial alignment. trillion total.

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