GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Most recently the company committed to powering global operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025 as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. How will the company get there five years ahead of the initial 2030 target?

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But that’s the mandate of Simon Stiell, the former environment minister of Grenada who is now the United Nations’ climate chief – the man most responsible for achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5°C With little to no power to enforce compliance, Stiell has responsibility without authority.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The bank, currently Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, has committed to reaching net-zero across its supply chain and operations by 2030, before reaching net-zero across its customer portfolio 20 years later. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2025

above pre-industrial levels as outlined in the Paris Agreement. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that global demand for fossil fuels will peak before 2030 , driven by rapid growth in renewables, the rise of electric vehicles, and improving energy efficiency. When will fossil fuel demand peak?

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Government of India announced the approval by cabinet of a new series of 2030 climate commitments, including a pledge to reduce emissions intensity by 45% and to transition to approximately 50% electric power from non-fossil-based sources. The post India Commits to 45% Emissions Intensity Reduction by 2030 appeared first on ESG Today.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 22, 2021

Goals for cutting carbon emissions that seemed ambitious when the Paris Agreement was forged. The post 2030 is the new 2050 as countries and companies compete on climate ambitions appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, April 22 – Call it The Great Acceleration.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The new decarbonization goal, to be officially presented at the COP29 climate conference currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, will form Brazil’s second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. Brazil’s current NDC targets a 53% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s also planning an investment push that will see it fund carbon removal projects at an expected cost of $35 per metric ton in 2025, increasing to $80 per metric ton in 2030 — far higher than the amount companies traditionally pay to purchase carbon offsets on voluntary markets. . Both declarations are notable, for different reasons.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2025

Lenovo is an early adopter of the science-based emissions reduction approach, after receiving SBTi approval for near-term 2030 emissions reduction targets in 2020. Lenovos long-term 2050 net-zero target coincides with its near-term, SBTi-validated 2030 emissions reduction targets.

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3BL Media

JUNE 27, 2025

Henkel aims to reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions by 30 percent by 2030 (base year 2021), with the goal of becoming net-zero by 2045. Henkel and Synthomer have jointly developed a framework that links renewable energy use directly to specific adhesive products, enabling measurable reductions in carbon emissions.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The companys updated Energy Transition Strategy highlighted its view of LNG as playing a critical role in the energy transition, including through replacing coal in heavy industry and in power generation, and includes plans by the company to grow its LNG business by 20% – 30% by 2030, on a 2022 basis. shareholder support.

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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. The WEF meetings in Davos, Switzerland, are an annual gathering of influential figures from business, government, and the social sector.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands, announced today a new commitment to align its reserves, including its investments in equities and corporate bonds with the Paris Agreement. degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

dangerous global warming threshold set out in the agreement. As an organisation, the IOC is on track to reduce its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2024 and is aiming for a 50 per cent reduction by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. They noted that, this year, the world surpassed the 1.5C

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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.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The initial case by Friends of the Earth Netherlands argued that Shell was in breach of its legal duty of care due to its impact on climate change, and that the company was undermining the ambitions of the Paris Agreement to limit average temperature rise to well below 2˚C, and to pursue efforts to limit to 1.5˚C.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

Science-based targets provide companies with an established approach, including 2030 milestone goals, to reduce emissions that also support the Paris Agreement. “As Science Based Targets initiative, net-zero, Paris Agreement, Growers of Good, 3MW solar array, Upcycled Food Association, esg, SBTi.

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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.

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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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

C scenario, noting that the lower bound remains in line with the Paris Agreement goal to keep temperature increase well below 2°C. Click here to access Morgan Stanley’s 2030 Interim Financed Emissions Targets report. Reflecting the current misalignment of the pace of decarbonization with a 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and has received flak over its failure to come up with a detailed, ambitious plan to decarbonize in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5 The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Energy costs under the other scenarios surpass the accelerated scenario in 2025, however, peaking around 2028 under the late-push scenario, and continuing to rise beyond 2030 in the delayed scenario. These risks would be particularly acute for companies in energy-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, mining and electricity.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 2, 2023

The proposed treaty would align fossil fuel production with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C gigawatts of wind capacity in the Baltic Sea by 2030, rising to 11 by 2040. California is the latest consider the treaty. The estimate includes measures to soften the blow for coal producers.

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ESG Today

JUNE 4, 2025

DuPont has also set 2030 goals to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50%, Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services and end-of-life of sold products by 25%, and to source 60% of power from renewable sources. DuPonts 2024 sustainability report further details the companys progress toward its 2030 goals.

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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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Corporate Knights

MAY 15, 2024

The paper says the annual investments needed to transition food systems will also need to increase 18 times, to US$260 billion, to cut emissions in half by 2030 and keep the world on track to be net-zero by 2050. trillion in 2030. In 2021, the Canadian government allocated $1.7 billion in subsidies for animal agriculture.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Net Zero Advisory Body (NZAB) – a group appointed by Guilbeault to help the government find a credible path to net-zero – is proposing that Ottawa set a 2035 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 50% and 55% below 2005 levels, a 10% increase from the current federal target for 2030.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

IBM said it would reach that milestone in 2030. Such commitments often are coupled with an interim goal of cutting emissions in half by, say, 2030. According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

HSBC is targeting net-zero in operations and supply chain by 2030; it also seeks to align its portfolio of investments with the Paris Agreement goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. per credit, and GreenCollar estimates that the market for reef credits could be worth over 6 million credits by 2030. . Pull Quote.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The gap between current climate investment and the funds needed until 2030 to achieve the net zero targets of the Paris Agreement currently stands at US$6 trillion annually, according to research from the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and law firm A&O Shearman, equating to approximately 6% of global annual GDP.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Citigroup and Bank of America – the two largest banks financing recent fossil fuel projects -- are expected to take the brunt of the action. “Bank of America has publicly committed to the Paris Agreement but continues to finance fossil fuel expansion with no phase-out plan,” Kate Monahan of Trillium Asset Management said in a statement. “By

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

HSBC will maintain its financing and investment in existing oil and gas fields at 2020 levels through 2030 and then reduce it by half by 2050.

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ESG Today

JULY 2, 2025

In addition to the 2050 goal, the 2021 law also set a binding EU climate goal to reduce net GHG by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. The Commission said that a future agreed 2040 target will serve as a benchmark for post-2030 climate and energy legislation.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Today, Walmart marks a major milestone: We are now more than halfway toward our goal to reduce or avoid 1 billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from product supply chains by 2030 through our Project Gigaton™ initiative. For more on our climate efforts, see Walmart’s FY22 climate brief.

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