ESG Today

JULY 22, 2025

Among the key requirements set out for financial institutions to achieve goals aligned with the new standard is the publication of a “fossil fuel transparency policy,” requiring an immediate end to project financing for new fossil fuel projects, and to end financing for oil and gas companies involved in fossil fuel expansion activities by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

In its deep dive into the worlds most sustainable private- and public-sector companies, Corporate Knights revealed an undeniable fact: public-sector companies are doing essential work when it comes to moving the needle toward a greener global economy. PostNord has taken steps to make its fleet emissions-free by 2030.

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3BL Media

JUNE 11, 2025

10 These ecosystems are worth US$ 375 billion per year to the global economy, from industries and services including fishing, food, pharmaceuticals and tourism. 14 It means that investment in blue ecosystems is underrepresented, despite the critical role they have in climate mitigation and their importance to the global economy.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“Over the last two decades working in sustainable finance, I’ve seen first-hand that successfully integrating sustainability and climate change considerations into decision-making processes is critical if investors, banks and companies are to fully understand risks and opportunities in a rapidly evolving global economy,” said Mattison.

Analytics

ESG Today

JULY 9, 2025

As developments continue to unfold, it’s clear: California is not backing down on the climate disclosure laws, and companies seeking to remain competitive in the global economy are increasingly expected to provide transparency into climate strategy and metrics. Scope 3 Emissions: Reporting starts in 2027 for FY 2026 data.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

The announcement by UBS marks the latest in a series of moves by banks globally to withdraw or pull back on climate commitments, although UBS changes appear less drastic than those by some of its peers. In the report, UBS said that its assets under management with a net zero ambition reached $64.4 billion, or 3.6% billion and 2.9%

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

This is why establishing the Transition Finance Council is so important.” The TFMR report noted that decarbonising the global economy will require an estimated annual investment of US$3.5 “Yet this is how it is currently being done, as transition finance doesn’t yet sit in its own vertical product or silo. trillion to US$9.2

Development

McKinsey Sustainabilty

JULY 17, 2025

Indeed, McKinsey Global Institute research projects that if advanced economies can regain their pre-2008 productivity growth rates, GDP per capita could increase by $1,500 to $8,000 by 2030. Who can recharge companies’ productivity growth?

Analytics

James Militzer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The prospects for resolving any of these global issues already dim seem to have gotten even dimmer as the year has progressed, raising doubts about whether solutions will be found in time. Automation is set to displace around 400 million workers by 2030 , a number that could grow to as much as 800 million under some projections.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 7, 2025

UBS’ exit from the NZBA follows a reset by the bank earlier this year of its key climate goals, including pushing back its target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its operations by 10 years to 2035, and withdrawing a target for its Asset Management division to align 20% of its assets under management (AUM) with net zero by 2030, (..)

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Corporate Knights data shows that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as everything else over the past five years. While the die is cast on the direction of travel of our global economy, we can speed it up.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

JUNE 8, 2025

If the market can expand at the pace seen in the older green bond sector, it would hit $14bn in annual issuance by 2030, they add, but even that would provide less than a 10th of the estimated funding needed to meet the UN’s 14th sustainable development goal of safeguarding the health of seas and oceans.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

That left its collective emissions 37% lower than 1990 levels, all while the economy grew nearly 70% bigger. The EU remains on track to cut emissions 55% below where they were in 1990 by 2030. The vast majority of major economies of the world remain deadly serious about decarbonization. We need to keep pace.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

JULY 28, 2025

The group has an ambitious methane reduction target of minus 30 per cent by 2030. Danone, with dairy at its core, is taking a dual approach: cutting methane from livestock while rapidly growing its plant-based portfolio. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.

Supply Chain

Eco-Business

AUGUST 8, 2025

8, 2025 While the Trump administration is setting back international climate action through policies such as the “ one big beautiful bill ”, some analysts have argued that his tariffs would inadvertently cut carbon by throwing sand into the engine of the global economy.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 3, 2025

Meanwhile, all of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the world, set to be achieved by 2030, are off track. FfD4 also demonstrated how much global development finance has changed in the decade since the last conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nearly half of African nations spend more on debt servicing than on health.

Development

3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The circularity of products is playing an increasingly important role in the economy. The chemical company Chemours has also taken this into account in EVOLVE 2030 2.0: To achieve this goal, Chemours developed the EVOLVE 2030 methodology in 2019. How does EVOLVE 2030 work?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19. Many of these same governments are devising ways to reconstruct global economies by spending back better, addressing climate change and inequality along the way. Spend back better. To stay below a 1.5

Climate Change

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The company is still committed to being net-zero by 2050, but observers say it’s a lot harder to see a pathway to reach such a goal without a stronger target for 2030. Follow This plans to introduce a resolution at BP’s annual general meeting in May calling for the company to align its 2030 targets with the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2022

Transitioning the global economy to net-zero emissions may be the most Herculean task modern society has faced. To sustain a healthy society, strong economy and dignified life on earth, there is no other viable option.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a global technology company supporting the vast majority of the world’s business, SAP needs to lead from the front with our ambitions and actions. That is why SAP has committed to achieve net-zero emissions across our value chain by 2030. 2030 is not far away. 2030 is not far away.

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3BL Media

JULY 16, 2024

Originally published in International Paper's 2023 Sustainability Report Celebrating a decade with our company, Sophie Beckham is vice president and chief sustainability officer at International Paper, where she works across the enterprise to advance sustainability strategy development and the company’s Vision 2030 goal implementation.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Photo: CARE Peru Data from the Gates Foundation suggests that investing in the economic power of women like Fariha could boost the global economy by as much as $10 trillion by 2030 – twice the GDP of Japan, the world’s third largest economy. Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business.

Global Economy

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Seasoned observers fear that growing calls for a bolder and more ambitious global policy framework are continuing to founder on the rocks of vested interests and short-term cost concerns. .

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

announced the launch of its new Sustainable Investments 2030 Strategy, aimed at accelerating its transition to a net zero emissions portfolio, and including a new pledge to invest $100 billion in climate solutions by 2030.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Automotive technology company Lear Corporation announced a new 2030 commitment to reach 100% renewable energy for electric power consumed at its global sites. RE100 members commit to sourcing 100% of the electricity used across their global operations with electricity from renewable sources.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The global economy is shifting toward high-skilled industries that demand green and digital skills, making the skill mismatch even bigger. Our education sweet spot is about dedicating SAP’s core competencies while improving our contribution toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) by 2030.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The sponge iron capacity that LKAB could build out corresponds to half a million large fuel cell vehicles, a significant step towards the "hydrogen economy" envisioned by the European Commission. The production of the hydrogen could require as much as 10 GW worth of electrolyzer capacity, a quarter of the total EU target for 2030.

Zero Carbon

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Change is hard, and we’re talking about massive changes, really reinventing and rebuilding our global economy over the coming decades,” said Makower. “We Scopes 1 & 2 ), by 2030, from a 2019 baseline. Achieving a 30% reduction in our value chain ( Scope 3 ) GHG emissions by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

Climate Change

ESG Today

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Global governments have agreed to new goals aimed at ending biodiversity loss this decade, protect natural ecosystems and ramp biodiversity-related financing to developing nations, with the adoption today of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 has used the recent annual Mining Indaba conference to sound out feedback beyond investors and companies for its upcoming workplans for seven objectives. Launched in 2022, Mining 2030 is backed by investors representing US$15 trillion in assets under management.

Supply Chain

3BL Media

MAY 24, 2022

The global food system is responsible for approximately one third of global emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently outlined how global temperature rise stands to negatively affect the global economy, food security and both human and planetary health. by the end of the decade.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 3, 2025

Members of the NZBA commit to transitioning operational and attributable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their financing activities to align with net zero pathways by 2050, and to set 2030 financed emissions targets, initially focused on key emissions intensive sectors.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2021

Turning the economy we have into the just and inclusive economy we want. Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series about the Ceres Roadmap 2030, a vision for sustainable business leadership in this crucial decade. Anthony Toppi. Wed, 03/10/2021 - 00:45. A new 10-year action plan released last year could help.

Supply Chain

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The logistics industry is expanding rapidly, with the World Economic Forum projecting that the global logistics industry will surpass $18 trillion by 2030 , underscoring its critical role in global trade. Read the full article here: Building Tomorrows Logistics Workforce: Bold Strategies for a Global Challenge .

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ninety One’s Global Environment strategy is a high conviction, concentrated global equity portfolio that provides exposure to the multi-decade structural growth opportunity from decarbonization, by investing in the equities of companies expected to contribute to the transition to a lower-carbon global economy.

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