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Powering Emissions Reductions With Clean Heat and Renewable Energy

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Ambition Zero Carbon – our science-based climate strategy The transition to 100% renewable energy is a key element of our flagship Ambition Zero Carbon programme, which is focused on delivering deep decarbonisation by halving the company’s entire value chain footprint (Scopes 1 to 3) by 2030 and becoming science-based net zero by 2045 at the latest.

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It was a 'monumental' year for renewables in Europe

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For renewables to expand market share at the expense of fossil fuels and reduce power emissions, they will need to grow faster than new demand is added. The current plan is to double wind and solar’s share of a much larger pie by 2030 – hitting 55% of electrical generation.

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Global clean energy investing tops US$1 trillion for first time ever

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And the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said global investment in clean energy needs to grow to around $4 trillion a year by 2030 to reach net-zero by 2050. Despite the record global investment in clean energy, a new IEA report found global emissions rose to record highs in 2022.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

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Trillion Wealth Fund Asks Shell for Climate Strategy Disclosure Guest Post: The Road Ahead for ESG Reports, Studies & Surveys 80% of Companies See Sustainability as a Potential Revenue, Profitability Driver: Morgan Stanley Survey

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Record Number of Negotiated Agreements Between Investors and Companies in 2022 Proxy Season

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Duke Energy Corporation agreed with filer As You Sow to increase the greenhouse gas emissions it will bring into its net-zero-by-2050 target, including upstream methane leakage during production of natural gas, customer use emissions, and purchased power emissions. And Dominion Energy Inc.

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Is a cleaner grid enough to help the U.S. meet its climate targets?

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He hasn’t yet been able to pass sweeping climate legislation, but he did declare that by 2030, U.S. emissions would fall as much as 52% from 2005 levels. Nearly every major utility company pledged to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. will fall short of its 2030 goal. emissions in 2019.

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These should be the climate change priorities for Canada's new government

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In fact, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have already slashed these powerful emissions by more than half in less than a decade. The last federal government almost finished this work with draft regulations released last summer that would require methane emissions associated with oil and gas to drop 75% by 2030.