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Energize Program Announces First Year Progress Including Formation of PPA Buyers' Cohort for Climate Action

3BL Media

SUMMARY: The Energize program – a collaborative effort by the pharmaceutical industry and Schneider Electric to increase access to decarbonization solutions for suppliers – has formed its first PPA buyers’ cohort. We are committed to decarbonizing our own operations, and to helping decarbonize the global pharmaceutical industry.”.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s," he explained. "To To achieve 2 degrees we need to decarbonize by mid-century. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s. Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5

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The zero-carbon business leader takes shape

Corporate Knights

At the recent United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, diplomats from nearly 200 countries struck a major agreement to increase the fight against climate change — establishing a consensus that more must be done to protect the planet. The whole digitalization journey goes hand-in-hand with decarbonization: they support each other.”.

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G7 Leaders Support Development of Global Sustainable Disclosure Standards

ESG Today

The ISSB was launched in November 2021 at the COP26 climate conference, with the goal to develop IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, in order to provide a global baseline of disclosure requirements that can be used by jurisdictions on a standalone basis or incorporated into broader reporting frameworks.

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Volvo Targets 75% Emissions Reduction per Car by 2030

ESG Today

What we and other like-minded companies are trying to do is develop and scale up transformational technologies to decarbonize sometimes ancient industrial processes.” The company stated that to date it has reduced CO2 emissions per car by 19% compared with 2018.

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Business welcomes The Glasgow Climate Pact: We Mean Business Coalition statement

We Mean Business Coalition

This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . Ahead of COP26, more than 750 businesses, employing 10 million people globally and with US$2.7 The COP26 outcome highlights the importance of countries doing everything possible to stay within the 1.5 °C C alive, just.

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G7 must lead rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels for economic stability

We Mean Business Coalition

To achieve our climate goals, we urge the G7 to fully decarbonize their nations’ power systems by 2035. . The G7 heads of state can steer us towards a clean global energy system by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 and redirecting those funds towards increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy. Sincerely,? ? .