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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Setting the Standard for Sustainability – Winter 2024 Newsletter

3BL Media

SCS is hosting an FSC training in February 2025 in Emeryville, California. If you are new to GHG Verification, you may want to sign up to attend this webinar on January 29, 2025: Prepare for New GHG Inventory Verification Regulations - The Experts Take Your Questions. Register Here (For a 10% discount, use code EOYN at checkout.)

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The We Mean Business Coalition brings together more than 9,000 companies worldwide to raise climate ambition and action.

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Enbridge Welcomes New UN Flagship Report on Climate Change

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Society must move more forcefully to combat global warming, the world’s top climate scientists warned Monday in a new report that says existing solutions and innovation offer hope—but not without action. Global temperatures will stabilize when carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero, the report says. .

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Should businesses be legally required to set science-based targets?

We Mean Business Coalition

However, with more than 90% of global GDP now covered by net-zero targets set nationally or regionally, this change may well come in the not-too-distant future. and 2C-aligned targets will cease to be valid from 2025. . Giannini has led on the development of the healthcare giant’s 2040 net-zero pathway, underpinned by 1.5C-aligned

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

That difference brought the two of us together, as a climate scientist and an investor, to discuss how industrial zones around the world could, within a few years, tell a drastically different story about our climate. For that outcome to occur, worldwide emissions must reach net-zero by 2050 at latest. .

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Six Outcomes Leading Businesses Want to See from COP28

We Mean Business Coalition

Sectoral net zero targets need to be set and implemented swiftly, along with greater accountability. Governments must commit to ambitious climate policies and laws to provide the incentives for business action at scale. We cannot put off action for another year; climate scientists warn that it is “now or never”.