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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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 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

Climate Change

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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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?

Smart Grid

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.

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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.

Paris Agreement

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.

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. 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

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

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

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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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

A new project to transport wind energy to the Ruhr region will make an important contribution to the security of supply in Germany and Europe in the future as early as 2030, Amprion CTO Hendrik Neumann says. It has committed to investing 1 billion to increasing energy efficiency by 2030. Since 2019, it has cut air carbon by 7.5%

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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

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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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.

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ESG Today

JUNE 25, 2025

For Oatly, these targets follow two key principles: alignment with the Carbon Law (a concept developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre that proposes halving global emissions every decade to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C C goal) and maintaining a significant lower climate footprint over their market category.

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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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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JUNE 16, 2025

In the initial global MACC, the abatement potential for passenger EVs by 2030 was estimated at 0.05 The initial MACC reported more than three gigatons of potential abatement from CCUS, but the technology has not scaled as expected; only about one-thirtieth of those three gigatons will be captured by 2030. gigatons as of 2024.

Decarbonize

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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The committee’s most recent report , published in July, called for swift action to achieve the UK’s 2030 target of reducing carbon emissions by 68% compared to 1990 levels. Back then, I wouldn’t have believed that we would come so far in international collaboration on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement,” he said.

Climate Change

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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

This work directly supports Target 2 of the Global Biodiversity Framework , which calls for at least 30 per cent of degraded coastal and marine ecosystems to be under effective restoration by 2030, specifically enhancing connectivity and ecological function.

Paris Agreement

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

C, as set out in the Paris Climate Agreement – and we are already too close to this threshold,” said Carsten Knobel, CEO of Henkel. We all have to take responsibility and help limit global warming to 1.5°C,

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Theme: Next generation of leaders Register today 6:00pm – 7:00pm (GMT+4) | Green Plate for all: Decarbonizing our food systems Aligning the SDG and Paris Agreement goals, this session will demonstrate the interconnections between climate change, food security, and human well-being, as well as the actions necessary for a more sustainable future.

Greenwashing

3BL Media

MAY 12, 2025

Sands aims to achieve the new 30% target, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit temperature increase to 1.5C, by 2025. We are motivated to aim higher as we set our sights on a strong finish to our current reporting period and prepare to establish new goals for our 2026-2030 cycle.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 10, 2025

As a party to the Paris Agreement, the European Union is due to submit its next Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2025. This NDC will define the EU’s climate ambition for 2035 – the midpoint between the legally binding 2030 climate target and the proposed 2040 target.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2025

High-integrity voluntary carbon markets (VCMs), when implemented effectively, possess the capacity to channel innovative, debt-free finance directly to the countries that need it most, with the potential to mobilise up to US$50 billion by 2030 alone. Within this rulebook, Article 6.4

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

The EC presented its Readiness 2030 white paper, outlining its strategic priorities for rebuilding Europes defence capabilities, and provided more detail on its 800 billion (US$867 billion) ReArm Europe plan. This becomes a tougher shout when investee firms appear to be betting against their public commitments.

Green Bonds

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.

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ESG Today

MARCH 4, 2025

Among the key actions outlined in the document was a plan by the bank to engage over the next 12 months with all of its existing corporate and investing banking (CIB) clients identified as priority clients whose emissions reductions will be essential to reaching Standard Chartereds 2030 interim net zero goals.

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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.”

Climate Change

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. billion and US$2 billion.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2024

According to its analysis, no country has a 2030 nationally determined contribution (NDC) target ambitious enough to align with their 1.5C benchmark to meet the Paris Agreement goals.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Falling short – UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell described as “stark but unsurprising” the findings of the latest ‘Synthesis Report’ , which calculates the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement.

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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 Therefore, this Impact Topic emphasizes action and requires smaller companies to have a climate action plan with measurable targets that don’t rely on GHG measurements but still demonstrate their commitment to the Paris Agreement.

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