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Is the LNG industry gaslighting the path to net-zero?

Corporate Knights

Ottawa is currently developing a transition taxonomy – essentially a guideline as to which types of investments are appropriate in the transition to a net-zero economy. However, natural gas still produces CO2 emissions and expanding supply and demand is inconsistent with net-zero plans. TC Energy’s $14.5-billion

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Those organisations that have not considered reducing these emission sources could be misunderstanding the double materiality risks they carry: the risks to their business, like stranded assets or reputational risks, and their contribution to making the Earth uninhabitable. However, greater action is required to fully realise this.

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Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing

Corporate Knights

In a report released the same day, the three advocacy groups recommend that Ottawa ’ s banking regulator require financial institutions to adopt a “ credible climate plan ” that would include interim targets for 2025 and 2030. . Senator Rosa Galvez is also critical of the regulator ’ s approach.

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Canadian pension funds are starting to embrace the green transition

Corporate Knights

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets. 79000 0.14

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Ontario and Alberta are building natural gas plants despite lower costs of renewables

Corporate Knights

While the grid operators in Ontario and Alberta are both “investigating pathways to a net-zero power grid,” CEC points to a fatal flaw in their analysis — they rely too often on obsolete data that may go back as far as 2001, or draw from experience in other countries.

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Shell Sets 2030 Goal to Reduce Emissions from Customers’ Use of Gasoline and Diesel

ESG Today

In 2020, Shell announced a commitment to achieve net zero in its operations by 2050, and in 2021, the company launched its “Powering Progress” strategy , detailing how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero energy business by 2050 across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, with initiatives including investing in renewable and clean energy solutions.

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COP27: Get finance flowing in the right direction so business can cut emissions faster

We Mean Business Coalition

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?