Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Aconsequence of this pushback came on New Years Eve, when global financial behemoths Bank of America and Citigroup left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, one of the investment industry climate coalitions championed by the United Nations. What does this mean for the year ahead?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2025

BPs decision to retreat even further on its climate commitments has elicited strong criticism from a group of its institutional investors, which are concerned that the companys revised strategy isnt consistent with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming nor in line with its pledge reach net zero by 2050.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JULY 10, 2025

percent reduction factor for 2024 to 2027 and 4.4 An expansion of the EU ETS that covers buildings and road transport emissions is expected to be fully operational by 2027. 4 Direct air capture: A key technology for net zero , International Energy Agency, April 2022. percent, dropping to around 0.8 billion tons by 2030.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

billion metres cubed of water withdrawal globally by 2027, over half the UK’s annual water use. Due to their investments in AI, tech players like Microsoft and Google have seen their greenhouse gas emissions grow about 30 to 50% , despite their net zero commitments. Investors play a key role in managing these risks.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 10, 2025

billion budget, raising concerns of inefficient last-minute spending before the 2027 deadline. Launched as part of the European Green Deal to make sure “no one and no region is left behind” in the transition to net zero, the fund was intended in part to retrain workers in areas like coal mines, steel factories and peat fields.

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ESG Today

JULY 29, 2024

France-based water and wastewater services and energy provider Veolia announced that its decarbonization targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and that its net zero transition plan has been rated as “Advanced” by international ratings agency Moody’s.

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ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2023

Financial technology platform provider Intuit announced today a series of new climate-focused goals, including a new target to achieve net zero emissions across its value chain by 2040. We will continue to drive meaningful emissions reductions as we embark on our net-zero journey.”

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The global market for business travel is projected to decline 54 percent during 2020, according to data by ResearchAndMarkets.com, which predicts a robust recovery for the industry — by 2027. Leisure travel was down even more. Only the air cargo business is up. Fuels rush in. And that’s just for voluntary offsets. It's quite a big business.”.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

Here are some inspiring stories of CPAs who are driving their organizations towards their net zero, green goals: Image Credit: Aaron Wynia Vimali Pathmanathan, Director of Finance, Opus One Solutions, Toronto Opus One Solutions, a firm that develops software to help energy grids transition to renewables, was acquired by GE Digital in December 2021.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Investors that have set net zero targets for their portfolios have been cautioned to carefully evaluate their positions in majority state-owned oil and gas laggards. According to the report, it has the fourth most credible net zero targets of the 25 firms.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nasdaq stated that its near- and long-term climate goals have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of addressing and limiting climate change.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The new regulation, which broadly aligns with a similar effort in the United States, will eliminate the equivalent of 217 million tonnes of carbon dioxide pollution between 2027 and 2040 and deliver C$12.4 billion in “avoided global damages”, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) said in a release.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 17, 2024

Phasing out fossil fuels is key to cutting emissions and fighting climate change. But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

“Amgen is well on the path to deliver net-zero for Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprints as part of its 2027 ambition. Collaboration with suppliers to reduce our Scope 3 carbon footprint is integral to collectively mitigate climate change impacts. said Sam Guhan, Vice President of Operations Engineering.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Highlights First injection could come as early as 2027 Site off coast of Teesside could store up to 100 million tonnes of CO2 Big step on the path to net zero greenhouse gas emission.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The utility would be leaving the business of large-scale centralized power generation: closing all its coal plants by 2027 and tripling its renewable energy capacity by 2030. Closing coal plants makes sense in an era of climate change, but that doesn’t make it easy. Some closures have involved major write-downs.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2022

Industrial gases company Air Products announced a significant increase in its planned capital expenditure plans for clean energy projects, boosting its 2018-2027 energy transition investment goal by $4 billion to a new $15 billion target.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The VPPA allows Keysight to support renewable energy development, demonstrating Keysights commitment to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. Phase III of the project located in Haskell County, Texas, is expected to achieve commercial operation in the first quarter of Keysights fiscal year 2027.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Governments around the world are promoting clean-burning hydrogen as a critical component of our net-zero drive to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. The firms hope to make a final decision to proceed early in 2024, with plant start-up by the end of 2027.

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3BL Media

MAY 11, 2022

Destination Zero is the global power leaders’ strategy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in a way serving all of Cummins’ stakeholders while still sustainable for the company’s business. Climate change is the existential crisis of our time, and we must work together to solve it,” said Cummins Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The state's environmental leadership also extends to climate change mitigation policy. It will also require the disclosure of Scope 3 emissions starting in 2027 for the prior fiscal year, in accordance with guidance provided by the GHG Protocol. Read here for a simple breakdown of what Scope 3 GHG emissions are.)

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 31, 2023

The latest net zero signals of change include a record order for Volvo electric trucks. Net Zero Economy In a historic first, the IEA this week announced that investment in solar projects has overtaken oil production for the first time. Investment in renewable energy is up by nearly a quarter since 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Leading meteorologists forecast earlier this year that by as soon as 2027, this key temperature representing an upper limit on warming to mitigate the worst excesses of climate change, would be hit for the first time. Carbon credits are a pivotal tool in facilitating transition to net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there. is buildings).

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ESG Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The consultation paper released today is the next step in delivering the Government’s commitment to ensuring Australia’s large business and financial institutions provide more information and greater transparency on how they are responding to climate change and contributing to the net zero transformation.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

It is scheduled to become operational in 2027. ” The partnership comes as the UK government is working on strengthening the country’s energy supply routes as outlined in its Energy Security Strategy, lowering its dependence on Russian gas imports whilst lowering prices for consumers and moving the country closer to net zero.

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3BL Media

MAY 8, 2024

As the urgent need for clean technologies in addressing climate change becomes increasingly clear, we are proud to partner with the DOE in transforming the way the world heats and cools buildings, while dramatically reducing energy use and carbon emissions in the process,” said Holly Paeper, president, Commercial HVAC Americas, Trane Technologies.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

The introduction of the proposed law follows the release of a ‘Discovery consultation’ launched by the Treasury in December 2022 on the development of a climate risk disclosure framework, and a subsequent announcement in June 2023 of plans to implement mandatory climate-related financial disclosure requirements.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

The growing trend of insurers exiting high-risk markets due to climate change threatens to upset the delicate balance of financial ecosystems. Earlier this year, Eric Andersen, President at Aon, told a US Senate committee that climate change has created a crisis of confidence around the ability of insurers to predict loss.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Multiple initiatives have been launched: the UK Infrastructure Bank has been set up to prioritise investment in projects that tackle climate change, there are efforts to accelerate green finance, and green energy continues to receive subsidies to encourage construction and production of more renewable power.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2024

Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED)* program targeting climate change, Eastman will use a relatively new energy technology — thermal batteries — on a scale never seen before. The project will now put Eastman out in front in the search for alternative, clean energy sources.

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ESG Today

JULY 6, 2022

LNG also plays an important role in climate change mitigation, with the engines potentially reducing CO2 emissions by up to 25% compared to standard marine fuels. The two new cruise ships are expected to come into service in 2027 and 2028, respectively.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The project is expected to start operations in 2027 and is claimed to be the UK’s largest blue hydrogen project. The UK Prime Minister added: “It is a clear indication that businesses in the energy sector are taking the transition to cleaner solutions seriously, and a major boost to the UK’s own ambitious net-zero goals.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2022

Transitioning to net zero was never going to be a black and white process. Some of the solutions the world needs to employ – while less harmful to the climate than fossil fuels – come with their own environmental impacts that sustainability-focused investors must consider. . Nuclear through a new lens .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Over the past decade, these mandatory Building Performance Standards (BPS) policies have gained momentum, as an increasing number of local jurisdictions act to mitigate climate change impacts and support building decarbonization. and larger; these buildings must meet a final EUI target by 2030, with interim targets in 2024 and 2027.

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3BL Media

JULY 9, 2024

Amid the global worries and vigilance about climate change and its impacts on water supplies, climate adaptation and resilience — a new response choice in this year’s survey — found itself in the middle of the pack (17 percent), illustrating its ascension in the consciousness of U.S. water sector stakeholders.

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