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Sustainability disclosures: Why we need a global reporting standard in 2022

We Mean Business Coalition

This article originally appeared in Business Green. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Climate success requires laws that ensure consistent reporting on emissions reductions, writes Jane Thostrup Jagd of the We Mean Business Coalition.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

Reading this article, you will better understand the carbon offsets market, carbon offsets controversy and the key initiatives to follow. Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up.

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Three Steps to Energy Efficient Properties

Chris Hall

Following the UK government’s COP26 declaration that all new cars and vans must be 100% zero emission by 2035, there has been a paradigm shift, with an ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles. Solar power as “the cheapest form of electricity in history” at COP26. Increasing demand for installing EV charging points.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. 2021 Sustainability Summary.

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How to Build a Sustainable Future

Chris Hall

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. COP26 revisited. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be.

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What Net-Zero companies are and How to start the journey

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, you will learn what net-zero companies are, why embark in such endeavour and how to make your net-zero targets credible. After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Still, many organizations struggle to make their first steps to become Net-Zero companies.

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Progress at last on climate finance at COP27

Corporate Knights

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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