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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement. About two-thirds of the GHG reductions achieved by these companies were genuine from the planet’s perspective; much of it came courtesy of efficiency measures or retiring polluting assets.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. While the process is complex, the pay-offs are considerable. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Republic Services is on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list and CDP Worldwide’s Climate A List.

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. Eighty-four percent responded to less than 80% of those indicators. .

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

trillion across the region by 2030. In its recent report on environmental disclosures by firms in Southeast Asia, covering climate, water and deforestation, disclosure platform CDP found a 25% increase in forest-related disclosures, with growth rates in the region outstripping global trends.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

Over 750 companies from across the world are urging governments to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030 for developed countries and by 2040 for other countries. trillion in real estate assets under management now committed to halving emissions by 2030, along with 20% of architects and engineers. .

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