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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

The firms in the 2025 Global 100 ranking allocated 58% of their investments to sustainable projects in 2023, up from 55% in the prior year. That figure compares with sustainable investments of just 15% for the 8,259 other publicly traded companies with revenues of more than $1 billion in the Global 100 universe. Telus Corp.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. Last year, it attracted $575 million in investments to help it roll out its decarbonization plan and announced that all new customers will be powered by 100% renewable energy.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. 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. Cecilia Keating.

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The 25 most sustainable public-sector companies in the world

Corporate Knights

In its deep dive into the worlds most sustainable private- and public-sector companies, Corporate Knights revealed an undeniable fact: public-sector companies are doing essential work when it comes to moving the needle toward a greener global economy. Electricity Supply Board Ireland aims to decarbonize its electricity system by 2040.

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UBS Pushes Back Net Zero Target by 10 Years Following Credit Suisse Acquisition

ESG Today

UBS remains a member of the NZBA, and in its report, the bank confirmed that it remains committed to its financed emissions decarbonization targets. UBS has 2030 financed emissions goals in place for the Swiss residential and commercial real estate, power generation, iron and steel, cement, and fossil fuel sectors.

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Here we go again: Ontario’s reckless nuclear gamble

Corporate Knights

The newly formed Ontario Power Authority forecast that peak demand for electricity would start growing nearly twice as fast as it had over the previous 15 years, reaching 30,000 MW by 2025. OPA hired my team at ICF to take an independent look at their projections and we concluded that demand would not grow that fast and could even decline.

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Sustainalytics Launches Ratings to Assess Companies’ Low Carbon Transition Alignment

ESG Today

The ratings also draw on scenario analysis from the UN Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) Inevitable Policy Response’s Required Policy Scenario (RPS), which considers policies and actions needed to keep global warming below 1.5

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