Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Renewables 2024 report, the IEA’s flagship annual publication on the sector, seems to find that the world is set to add more than 5,500 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity between 2024 and 2030 – almost three times the increase seen between 2017 and 2023. times its 2022 level by 2030.

Manufacturing

3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2025

Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report Lenovo has responded to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)s urgent call for corporate climate action by committing to align with 1.5C campaign, an official partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Race to Zero campaign.

Net Zero

ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The new decarbonization goal will form the UK’s new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are national climate action plans presented by each country under the agreement, and are required to be updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition.

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ESG Today

JULY 28, 2025

UK-based financial services company NatWest Group announced the launch of a new sustainable finance target, aiming to provide £200 billion in climate and transition finance between July 2025 and the end of 2030.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The GSIA’s report contains recommendations for three groups – policymakers, investors, and COP29 negotiators – to overcome barriers preventing action on climate change and mobilising net zero-aligned public and private finance. C temperature pathway.

Paris Agreement

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Experts with the World Economic Forum (WEF) have come away from the annual meeting in Davos foretelling a rise in global financing for nature, which could clear the way to meet 2030 biodiversity targets. At this years WEF, climate change and other sustainability issues remained high on the agenda.

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ESG Today

JULY 2, 2025

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “As European citizens increasingly feel the impact of climate change, they expect Europe to act. The new proposal would amend the EU Climate Law, initially adopted in 2021 , setting into legislation the EU goal to reach climate neutrality by 2050.

Paris Agreement

ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

The new decarbonization goal will form the basis of Switzerlands second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, which the Swiss Federal Council said will be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by February 10.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Net Zero Benchmark from the investor-led engagement initiative assesses 41 carbon-intensive Canadian companies – including oil companies, public utilities, transportation companies and manufacturers – on their progress against climate goals to increase alignment with the Paris Agreement. C scenario analysis. “We’re

Net Zero

ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Nordea announced a commitment in 2021 to become a net zero bank by 2050 , along with a series of interim 2030 targets including reductions in carbon emissions from lending and investment portfolios by 40-50%, reductions in internal carbon emissions by at least 50% and the achievement of net positive carbon contribution.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JUNE 16, 2025

The UK Committee on Climate Change used such an analysis for its net-zero road maps. In the initial global MACC, the abatement potential for passenger EVs by 2030 was estimated at 0.05 For example, Exhibit 3 illustrates how, between 2030 and 2050, MACCs for aluminum decarbonization will change over time for different countries.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Theme: Navigating the energy transition Register today Saturday 16 November 2024 9:00am – 10:00am (GMT+4) | Pull finance: Pulling innovations into emerging markets at scale How can pull finance be leveraged to accelerate climate technology in emerging markets?

Greenwashing

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

Dr Philine zu Ermgassen, Changing Oceans Group, University of Edinburgh said, “ecological connectivity allows organisms, nutrients, sediment, and energy to move between different marine habitats. The findings come amid growing concern over the collapse of marine habitats in temperate zones.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

trillion needed annually by developing countries to finance their transition and mitigate the worst effects of climate change. The NCQG, while representing a marginal improvement on previous commitments, pales in comparison to the estimated US$1.3 Within this rulebook, Article 6.4

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The headline statistics from the Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Risks and Opportunities (ASCOR) projects State of Transition in Sovereigns 2024 report should serve as a wake-up call for governments, investors and financial institutions worldwide. benchmark to meet the Paris Agreement goals.

Climate Change

We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 7, 2025

By 2030, energy labelling and ecodesign rules are projected to save EU households on average between €473 and €736 annually. By 2024, nearly 10 million people globally were employed in energy efficiency-related roles, a figure that stands to grow by another 5 million by 2030 in a net zero pathway. In the U.S.,

Decarbonize

Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2025

The SBTi develops standards, tools and guidance to help companies and financial institutions to set greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets in line with climate science and the goals of the Paris Agreement. This week, Amazon launched a carbon credit service.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But overall, the first Labour budget for 15 years was far from an exemplar of the joined-up approach advocated by former Climate Change Committee chair Lord Deben , with the £3.4 Confirmation of a January 2027 start for a UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism was welcomed as providing certainty to investors over its scope.

Net Zero

B the Change

MAY 29, 2025

reduction by 2030 (from 2019 levels) compared to the 43% necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C It is well understood by now that the climate crisis, ecosystem health, and human well-being are all interlinked. Acting on climate change is not just an environmental imperative — it’s also becoming a business necessity.

Net Zero

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. million and 2.5

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 4, 2025

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is scheduled to take place in 2025 in Belm, Brazil, a city located at the gateway to the Amazon rainforest in the state of Par. Governments cannot meet their climate targets aloneprivate sector investment is essential to scaling up restoration efforts.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to a press release, “the new commitments were made through the Climate Champions initiative, coordinated by Clean Economy Fund, which has the goal of tripling climate philanthropy in Canada from roughly $100 million to more than $300 million per year by 2030.” He writes about cities, climate and cleantech.

Climate Change

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The latter group argues that the price advantage of clean energy, the resilience of ESG investments and pro-climate political considerations will prove stronger than the new administration’s policy attacks. voice “will carry much less weight” at the United Nations COP29 climate summit. based asset manager PIMCO.

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Upheaval of US climate policies aligns countrys net zero trajectory with Chinas. Although climate-focused policies largely maintained momentum in 2024, there is heightened concern that increasing policy uncertainty places the Paris Agreements well below 2C by 2050 commitment under pressure. GtCO2 a year by 2050.

Net Zero

Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Hub, a right-leaning media platform, is partnering with market-friendly advocacy group Clean Prosperity on a series of papers that advocate for conservative leadership on climate change. Climate change is already having costly impacts, and Canada needs to seize on the low-carbon economic growth. Indeed, U.S.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Innovative climate finance initiatives took centre stage at the most recent UN Climate Change Conference, COP29. Billed as The Finance COP, COP29 aims to deliver at least US$300 billion in climate finance annually. Stiell said the climate finance deal will keep the clean energy boom growing and protect billions of lives.He

Climate Change

Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

These efforts must be pursued in tandem with solid waste management; air pollution abatement must also be integrated with climate change mitigation. Targeting air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) simultaneously can provide substantial co-benefits of improved air quality while mitigating climate change.

Waste

Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault pledged to release a plan next year that delivers on the 2035 target, even as Ottawa faces considerable blowback on its current efforts to meet its 2030 goal of a 40% to 45% reduction.

Net Zero

Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 2, 2025

Trump revoked Bidens plan for 50 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric by 2030, halting the distribution of funds from a $5 billion program to install vehicle charging stations. According to the latest Sustainable Development Report , only 16 percent of the targets are on track to be met by 2030.

Net Zero

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 15, 2025

The umbrella organization for global financial-industry action on climate change, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), is in crisis after major U.S. Why is this crisis happening now, and does it represent an about-face by the financial industry in how it handles the climate emergency? What is GFANZ?

Net Zero

ESG Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By: Mike Hayes, Climate Change and Decarbonization Leader at KPMG Its just over a month since I returned home from the COP 29 summit in Baku. COP 29 also resulted in an agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which is designed to facilitate a global carbon market for both countries and corporates.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

APRIL 24, 2025

China’s crisis – President Xi Jinping committed China to an all-economy and all-greenhouse gases climate strategy at a virtual meeting of global leaders co-chaired by the UN and COP30 hosts Brazil. The event also prompted a written exchange of views between policymakers and the private sector.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

The European Banking Authoritys implementation of Basel III includes Pillar 3 reporting requirements that stipulate annual template-based disclosures on physical and transition risks, plus two metrics that measure changes in the exposure of bank assets to climate change. times by 2030.

Banking

ESG Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are national climate action plans presented by each country under the agreement, and are required to be updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition. Thats not wishful thinking; its happened before.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

The European Banking Authority’s implementation of Basel III includes Pillar 3 reporting requirements that stipulate annual template-based disclosures on physical and transition risks, plus two metrics that measure changes in the exposure of bank assets to climate change. times by 2030.

Banking

Eco-Business

JUNE 10, 2025

[link] Copy By Zhou Xiaozhu, Dialogue Earth 7 minute read June 10, 2025 On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Still, the US moves rocked confidence in global climate governance. billion originally pledged in 2022.

Paris Agreement

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

And when it comes to climate change, this news can seem uniformly grim (its not, and well come back to this). But its worth reminding ourselves of the important progress thats happening on climate and clean energy around the world as an antidote to pessimism that can paralyze us right at the moment when action is needed most.

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