Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Net-zero emissions companies is one of the fastest-growing business trends. According to scientists achieving net-zero before 2050 is critical to keeping us safe from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. Still, many organizations struggle to make their first steps to become Net-Zero companies.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K. As the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). The new “Article 6 Rules” have been designed with the intention of diverting funds to schemes that generate credits, such as tree planting and carbon-capture systems. Carbon trading. Carbon capture.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement in the first days (much to the surprise of Indian observers) that India would reach net zero emissions by 2070 and generate 50% of its energy from renewables by 2030 helped lower that trajectory to 2.4°C. Read the original article. C this century, well beyond the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Deforestation is a major topic at the ongoing climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, since deforestation and forest degradation affect climate change on a large scale. In conjunction with the ongoing COP26 in Glasgow, The CGF is holding a panel discussion on the industry’s transition to net zero emissions, which Essity intends to achieve by 2050.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. An ideological shift demanded that addressing the impact of climate change be a holistic global effort across both the public and private sectors as codified by Article 6 of the agreement.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

This article is “sponsored content” as defined by Corporate Knights’ content disclosure policy. . One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach . Decarbonising and Innovating towards a Net Zero Future .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Even the COP26 climate talks, scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland, may be made harder as transparency on emissions puts whole countries in the dock for not meeting emissions targets, triggering fresh contention over which countries need to do more and which need to pay more for a faster transition to net zero.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is “sponsored content” as defined by Corporate Knights’ content disclosure policy. At the recent United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, diplomats from nearly 200 countries struck a major agreement to increase the fight against climate change — establishing a consensus that more must be done to protect the planet.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

The Glasgow Summit at COP26 made a major focus on “keeping 1.5°C The recent IEA report and UNEP gap report on net zero pathways have noted how difficult it will be to achieve the 1.5°C The previous IEA net zero report included various assumptions, including an increase in land use for bio-energy crops.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There has been a shift at this year’s summit, from making pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050 to a focus on actions to cut emissions by 2030. The international financial community formed a broad alliance of firms committed to net zero, attracting accusations of greenwashing. degrees Celsius (2.7 That’s a start.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. The new market-based instruments approved by Article 6 encourage international carbon trading, long seen as the likeliest way to incentivize global climate action.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This will set them on course to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. This is why governments at Cop26 in Glasgow must deliver three key outcomes that will promote the role of nature in the Paris Agreement. To create a stable, net-zero and nature-positive planet we need action now.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Looking at Cooperative Approaches as a Market-Based Path Toward Net Zero. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). SOURCE: Tetra Tech.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow. Time for action.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. As I wrote in my article , the many sustainability frameworks suck companies’ resources and confuse stakeholders. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A version of this article first appeared on Harvard Business Review. . COP26 focused the attention of governments and businesses on a key targe t: limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C As part of its pilot efforts, SBTi certified the net-zero targets of seven global firms: AstraZeneca (UK), CVS Health (U.S.),

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

We outline below some of the more common initiatives being driven by landlords and tenants alike and raise some of the issues arising from them, namely electric vehicle (EV) charging point installations; photovoltaic (PV) cell installations; and net zero obligations as part of green leases. Green leases and the move to net zero.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife; and a stable climate. The article was authored by Amanda Leland and originally appeared here. on climate action.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After signing on to the Global Methane Pledge two years ago during the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Canada released a methane reduction strategy in September, 2022 that affirmed the 75% reduction from 2012 levels by decade’s end, Guilbeault’s department recalled in a backgrounder published earlier today. Read the original article here.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Established under Article 7.1 degrees C.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . Ahead of COP26, more than 750 businesses, employing 10 million people globally and with US$2.7 The COP26 outcome highlights the importance of countries doing everything possible to stay within the 1.5 °C C alive, just.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

The main critique of net zero commitments is that companies are delaying action and relying too heavily on offsetting with carbon credits to reduce emissions,” according to a new Ceres report , which advises investors, lenders and companies on the appropriate use of carbon credits in climate commitments.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Disorderly transition and portfolio risks loom large. 2025 will cause a fundamental re-appraisal For investors with 2030 and net zero commitments, the Stocktake / Ratchet cycle will show that success from significant company and policy engagement since 2015 has been difficult to spot. None of this will be fun.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Business Green. At COP26 in Glasgow the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For the record, the final text called on parties to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science”. It also includes failure to reach agreement on Articles 6.2

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article first appeared in Forbes. Early evening, as news of the document’s release rippled around the Expo venue, the halls became noisy – people picked up that for the first time in any COP declaration, there was an explicit mention of ‘fossil fuels’ (a pledge to reduce coal, but not oil or gas, was referenced at COP26).

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As concerning, as of October 2022, only 24 countries updated their national commitment according to the UNCC, to reduce their GHGs, despite all countries agreeing to update their commitments one year earlier at COP26. C increase– to do this requires a reduction in GHG emissions of 50% by 2030 on a path to net zero by 2050.

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CIM

DECEMBER 8, 2021

R esearch among facilities managers from across the life sciences, pharmaceutical and high-tech manufacturing sectors in the run-up to COP26, reveals that for 79% of companies, the primary HVAC concern for senior management is a system’s ability to deliver thermal comfort, low running costs or uninterrupted operation. Read the full article.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2022

We believe we can help expand both the supply and market infrastructure necessary to progress towards a net-zero future,” the CPP report added. Doing so will help protect ecosystems and their communities, and enable us to earn attractive risk-adjusted returns for generations of contributors and beneficiaries.” .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

In this article, I’ll do a quick summary of 2020 and then present four sustainable business trends that could finally explode in 2021. Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. 2020 Sustainability Summary.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The article below will explore the momentum and potential of off-grid solar, discussing why much faster progress – and much greater funding – is needed for the sector to address the increasingly urgent challenges of climate change. That much was confirmed at last year’s COP26 climate summit. Momentum building in energy access.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the article ‘Ten Tests for COP’ Tina Rothery and Rupert Read outline recommended measures including the restoration of natural biodiverse flood defences such as mangroves. As far as the top-down response to the crisis is concerned, had he seen anything commensurate with the magnitude of the challenge to date?

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