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Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024

Corporate Knights

It marked the first time the international community assessed its collective progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. The post Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024 appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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Expectations Going Into COP28

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Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015), where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into landmark developments and prospects this year. I've been participating since COP 21 when the adoption of the Paris Agreement took place.

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Guest Post: 2024, The Year to Move from Climate Ambition to Action

ESG Today

As the world edges closer to 2030 all the evidence suggests we will struggle to meet the original Paris Agreement targets. Whether it’s analyzing large data sets to support companies’ disclosure requirements or helping to auto-generate company specific decarbonization pathways and build transition plans, AI’s possibilities are huge.

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Rayonier Announces Climate Pledge Commitment

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January 12, 2024 /3BL/ - Rayonier Inc. By signing The Climate Pledge, Rayonier joins a growing community of over 460 companies that are committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's target. Originally published on Rayonier.com WILDLIGHT, Fla.,

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G7 Leaders Support Development of Global Sustainable Disclosure Standards

ESG Today

Leaders of leading industrial nations at the Japan-hosted G7 summit in Hiroshima made a series of announcements in support of their Paris Agreement commitments to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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France Bans Fossil Fuel Companies from Responsible Investment Labelled Funds

ESG Today

The new rules will also require companies included in SRI-labelled funds to have a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. We will thus allow savers to take into account the ecological transition and businesses to finance their decarbonization more easily.”

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Accelerating Climate Action

3BL Media

Upon the team’s return from the UAE, we sat down to gather their impressions from the historic event and hear how they plan to accelerate action in 2024. Q: At the conclusion of COP, delegates agreed to what is being called “the UAE Consensus,” an agreement that begins to lay the groundwork for transitioning away from fossil fuels.