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UN Plastics Treaty: Good for Business and the Planet

3BL Media

Last week the UN Plastics Treaty reached its final stages of negotiations at INC-4 in Ottawa, Canada, to develop a legally binding, international agreement to tackle plastic pollution across the entire plastics life cycle. Their vision is for this to be legally binding, much like the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. Financial institutions have a major role to play in decarbonising the economy toward net zero over the coming three decades.

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CBRE 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report: Environment

3BL Media

billion square feet of managed property, CBRE has an outsized opportunity to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through our own operations, services for our investor and occupier clients, and our entire value chain. . CBRE has committed to achieving 100% renewable electricity by the end of 2025. Advancing Net Zero.

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Mondel?z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report: Climate Action

3BL Media

We’re building on our progress in reducing our end-to-end carbon footprint and working toward our long-term goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In doing so, we’re transforming how we do business across our entire supply chain – from farmer’s field to shop shelf. Joining the Race to Net Zero.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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Joint statement on UNFCCC work programme on just transition pathways

We Mean Business Coalition

This emphasizes that people-centered climate action is essential to ensure social cohesion and increase the societal buy-in required for an accelerated and sustainable transition to a net-zero economy — within planetary boundaries and at a pace aligned with science. C-aligned, ambitious, equitable, and social-justice centered.

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Tapestry's Approach to Climate Change

3BL Media

It exacerbates natural disasters, threatens supply chains and disproportionately harms marginalized communities, contributing to socio- economic inequalities. We are aligning our business strategies with the international consensus – outlined in the Paris Agreement – that we must limit global warming to below 1.5°C,