Corporate Knights

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. But achieving a net-zero future requires every sector of the economy play a role, not just government.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The Government will not deliver on its commitment to net zero by 2050, say the authors of a new research paper, without taking radical action to decarbonise the 12 most carbon-intensive industries, which together represent three-fifths of UK emissions and employ one in every five jobs. million additional green jobs by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. To keep up with these net-zero ambitions, the global energy system may need to significantly accelerate its transformation.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. As the U.K.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Glasgow Climate Pact , agreed at COP26, stressed ‘the urgency of enhancing ambition and action in relation to mitigation, adaptation and finance in this critical decade’. Deforestation must be removed from supply chains by 2025. Finance: Business and governments must go all in to finance the global transition to net zero .

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“Project C is about making sure no one is left behind on our journey to net zero. Leading the Way to Net Zero National Grid is committed to combatting climate change and taking steps toward a clean energy future. It’s at the heart of who we are.”. Projects are expected to come on online as early as fall 2022.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

R estoration c apital w ill become c ore to the c limate n arrative towards the 2025 r atchet , says Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at the Inevitable Policy Response. This will take time and now time has run out for the new clean lobbying to have the necessary impact to save global net zero without an overshoot past 1.5 ° C.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Our planet faces an unprecedented slate of climate risks, and world leaders are gathering at COP26 in Glasgow next month with a mandate to stave off disaster. recently rejoined, signatories agreed to do whatever it takes to reach a net-zero future within a couple of decades. Point 1: Cutting emissions. Point 3: Adaptation.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This will set them on course to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. This is why governments at Cop26 in Glasgow must deliver three key outcomes that will promote the role of nature in the Paris Agreement. To create a stable, net-zero and nature-positive planet we need action now.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year’s worst offender, with 55 fossil fuel contracts, is the British holding company WPP, which, in a gross contradiction, has pledged to achieve net-zero emissions in its operations by 2025. It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As the voice of progressive business, We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to urgently deliver on the $100 billion commitment and make progress on post-2025 climate finance plans. Will a company’s investment take it a step closer towards a net zero world, or will it be a stranded asset tomorrow?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Convened at COP26, we have already worked to set industry-wide standards for engagements, and are using these, together with the fast-growing set of tools, data and roadmaps to use our best efforts to eliminate the deforestation in our portfolios by 2025.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

We outline below some of the more common initiatives being driven by landlords and tenants alike and raise some of the issues arising from them, namely electric vehicle (EV) charging point installations; photovoltaic (PV) cell installations; and net zero obligations as part of green leases. Green leases and the move to net zero.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having the privilege to shape our distribution channel means I am not only confident in technically supporting our partners as they pave the way for their customers, but I am also confident every hardware that gets shipped out will incorporate Circular Design Principles by 2025.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Clearly, current incentives do not sit well alongside the UK’s net zero ambitions. But the UK’s approach is seen as half-hearted at best, and it certainly deviates from the position outlined in the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 analysis, which says oil and gas exploration must cease after 2021. “If of GDP in 2025.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Climate adaptation finance is also important for risk management of net zero assets, according to the UK’s Green Finance Institute. Developed countries have also been asked to prepare a report on doubling by COP29.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

Certainly, the ISSB lined up an A-Z of sustainable investment authorities to underline its significance, some calling for global mandatory adoption from 2025. Notably, ISSB Chair Emmanuel Faber added a dose of reality, describing the release as a “starting point”.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 2, 2022

With the onus on Australian businesses to lead the country towards net-zero carbon emissions, organisations can look to their technology architecture for ways to save energy and reduce their impact, according to Micro Focus. 4 And some estimates suggest that consumer technology could drive more than 20% of global energy use by 2025.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Deirdre Cooper, Co-Head of Thematic Equities and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Environment Fund at global asset manager Ninety One, says the world’s ability to meet net zero targets will depend on countries such as China and India. What are China’s stated net zero goals? GtCO2e in 2020 and set to reach 13.2-14.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

The phase out of non-hybrid or non-electric vehicles forms part of an ongoing shift towards a greener transport industry, in part driven by government net zero initiatives. Mega infrastructure projects like HS2 also aim to tackle a net zero carbon logistics industry.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

The agreement will include drafting a post-2025 finance target, in order to replace the $100 billion previously pledged by developed countries to finance mitigation and adaptation actions in developing countries. The surge in attendance, doubling since COP26, can be attributed to heightened private sector engagement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) has announced it will stop investing in companies in the fossil fuel sector that do not commit to the Paris Agreement and ambitions outlined at COP26. Setting a 1.5°C The previous limits were 30% and 10%, respectively.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Nowhere is this urgency more evident than in the realm of land, nature, and agriculture, where achieving net-zero by 2030 is imperative – demanding a swifter response than any other sector. Leaders from 134 countries signed the declaration to integrate food systems into their climate plans by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

China’s declared commitment to net zero by 2060 is significant, even though it sits alongside commitments to stop building new coal by 2025 and to reach peak emissions by 2030 – both “very insufficient” in her view. Manufacturers are facing the twin challenges of net zero and digitisation. Low-hanging fruit?

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ships travelling within the EU will be required to reduce the CO2 intensity of their shipping fuels by 2% by 2025 (compared to 2020 levels), 30% by 2035 and 80% by 2050. The current draft notes that EU-listed shipping companies will have 40% of their emissions covered by ETS 2 by 2025, increasing to 70% in 2026 and 100% by 2027.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“We expected the Adaptation Agenda to take centre stage in Egypt, however, the tangible outcomes were scarce,” admits Albertine Pegrum-Haram, Senior Associate of Responsible Investment at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. While countries agreed on the framework, which was based on a COP26 pledge to at least double adaptation finance to US$40 billion (..)

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And without a substantial contribution of these sectors, net zero strategies and the Paris goal of averting or limiting catastrophic effects of climate change will remain out of reach. How much are current NDCs focused on action? Are they conducive to implementation and policy follow up ‘on the ground’?

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Both measures are due to be finalised in 2025 and come into force from 2027. The IMO has also confirmed it will develop a global GHG fuel standard to ensure a phase-out of unsustainable fuels, as well as phasing in a pricing mechanism for emissions.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 5, 2022

There’s been a fivefold increase in the number of corporations in the agriculture, forest and land sector that have committed to net-zero, but of the 148 that have, only nine have made strong progress on slowing deforestation to date, according to a UN-commissioned study released in July. Grant Reid CEO of Mars Inc. There are 1.6

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The aims of the UN’s Climate Action Pathway for Finance , published in advance of COP26 last year, are nothing if not ambitious. At COP26, the UK government committed to working towards mandatory TCFD-aligned disclosure obligations across the UK economy by 2025. In part, this shift has been driven by the regulators.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

degree target and achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is clear. The importance of reversing deforestation, managing agricultural supply chains and preserving biodiversity in limiting global warming to the 1.5-degree Whereas there are many different drivers of biodiversity and nature loss.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 27, 2022

With more than 100 countries (including Canada) signing on to the Global Methane Pledg e at last fall’s COP26 summit – and milestone methane reports from the International Energy Agency, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – it is clear that we are now on the precipice of global action.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The reorientation of public finance flows is also made explicit in Target 18, which calls on governments to identify harmful subsidies by 2025 and reduce them by US$500 billion by 2030, while scaling up positive incentives for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. billion by 2025. Beyond climate.

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