Corporate Knights

MAY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, Environmental Defence launched its “Canada’s climate villains” campaign , using graphic-novelesque illustrations and monikers like “Toxic Traitor” and “Ruthless Greenwasher. In Canada, as Corporate Kn ights has previously reported , they pay among the lowest average carbon costs of any sector.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

German-based consortium Climate Action Tracker rates Canada’s climate-finance policies as “highly insufficient” – essentially a D grade. For greenhouse gas reductions alone, the scale of capital required is enormous.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement in the first days (much to the surprise of Indian observers) that India would reach net zero emissions by 2070 and generate 50% of its energy from renewables by 2030 helped lower that trajectory to 2.4°C. Finance pledges and cries of ‘greenwashing’. But with the U.N.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said. C pathway.

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