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Vancity Restores Profitability and Stays True to Its Co-Operative Values

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In 2024, Vancity initiated a values-led transformation focused on improving member service and restoring profitability, while staying true to its co-operative values. 2024 reporting reflects Vancitys dual focus on material financial risks and broader social and environmental impacts. Report highlights include: $12.1B

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Sands Releases Its 2024 Environmental, Social and Governance Report

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Published by Las Vegas Sands on April 10, 2025 LAS VEGAS, May 12, 2025 /3BL/ - Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS ) has released its latest environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, outlining the companys 2024 performance on the corporate responsibility priorities established for its 2021-2025 reporting period.

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An authoratarian petrostate takes centre stage as COP29 host

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In 2024, COP29 must dig itself out of a bigger hole. Moreover, the UN’s visionary commitment to develop a more just, tolerant society as part of its Paris Agreement goals also looks shaky when it works with an authoritarian family dictatorship. Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.–based s score of 18/100).

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Banks flout net-zero targets to cash in on the next LNG boom

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A new report published by Reclaim Finance on Thursday calculates that, between 2021 and 2023, 400 banks put $213 billion toward LNG expansion and 400 investors funded the buildout with $252 billion as of May 2024. Many large banks have pledged to reach net-zero emissions, yet they are still financing the LNG boom.

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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

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With global attention focused on Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad), the event organizers have used the opportunity to highlight efforts to make the games more sustainable.

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Ceres Welcomes Final Agreement at COP29 to Move the World Forward With Climate Action

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November 25, 2024 /3BL/ - Ceres President and CEO Mindy Lubber issued the following statement after COP29, as global negotiators at the climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, finalized an agreement to help keep the world on track to reduce pollution dangerously overheating the planet.

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Meet the man most responsible for saving COP29 from irrelevancy

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But that’s the mandate of Simon Stiell, the former environment minister of Grenada who is now the United Nations’ climate chief – the man most responsible for achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5°C With little to no power to enforce compliance, Stiell has responsibility without authority.