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Pension Plans Increase Focus on ESG Investing for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

While a focus on ESG has been prevalent for some time now, this surge in interest has been fueled by Canada’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and an increasing number of stakeholders who expect ESG considerations be integrated into their investment programs.

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MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research

ESG Today

The acquisition comes as demand for carbon offset projects and related credits is expected to increase significantly over the next several years, as companies and businesses increasingly launch net zero ambitions, and turn to offsets as a bridge to their own absolute emissions reduction efforts, or to balance difficult to avoid emissions.

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Climate Tech BeZero Carbon Raises $50 Million to Expand Carbon Credit Ratings Platform

ESG Today

The financing marks the largest capital raise in the UK this year, and brings the total raised by BeZero Carbon to more than $70 million in the past year. Starting with carbon, effective ecosystem markets have huge potential to accelerate the Net Zero transition and generate economic prosperity.

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Guest Post – The Road to Decarbonization: How Blockchain Technology Can Accelerate Your Carbon Agenda

ESG Today

The tokenization of carbon emissions—using public blockchain technology—stands out as a powerful tool for companies to unleash the full potential of voluntary carbon markets and accelerate their own decarbonization efforts. The demand is likely to be met if a large-scale, voluntary carbon market takes shape.

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Announcing Climate Vault’s 2023 Carbon Champion Award Winners

3BL Media

Qlik: Recipient of the Carbon Champion Strategist award The Strategist award celebrates an organization that seeks to identify and analyze key issues, then leverage data-driven insights into effective ways to address them–all in order to help organizations, communities, and individuals mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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Understanding the True Cost of Carbon Neutrality

CIM

Almost 40 major companies in this region alone have signed on to become carbon neutral by 2030, with more committing to a date somewhere between then and 2050. On a global scale, net-zero targets cover at least 826 cities, 103 regions, and 1,565 companies across all continents as of October 2020. a year, every year.

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a company transitioning to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner is in want of a detailed plan. . How do they translate on a net zero journey? UK proposals to mandate climate transition plans are part of wider scrutiny effort. .