Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

Approximately 90% of countries are now covered by some kind of net-zero target, as are hundreds of the largest publicly traded companies. While banks comprise a 10th of this year’s index, it is tech groups of all varieties that dominate, including telecoms, chipmakers, computer makers and business service providers. C, SBTi A+.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It has become increasingly apparent that private sector support will be needed to fulfil the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) – putting greater onus on the crowding-in role of multilateral development banks. trillion required annually. Of course, China’s exports are getting greener by the day.

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CREA

MARCH 28, 2023

The choice to pursue investment tax credits for clean technology, like wind, solar, storage and green hydrogen, will allow Canada to take a competitive lead in accelerating the decarbonization of the energy sector,” said Evan Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Government Affairs at CanREA, who was on site for the introduction of the Budget today.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In this Q&A, EY’s Ben Taylor highlights the developments most likely to shape and accelerate the net zero transition, as well as the climate-related investment strategies of asset owners and managers. ESG Investor: What are the implications of the outcome on climate finance? This presents both risks and opportunities.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 30, 2023

News headlines trumpeted that the federal budget was setting aside more than $80 billion for clean technology tax credits over the next 12 years. The scale of investments that Canada requires to reach net-zero by 2050 is significant, with estimates ranging from $60 billion to $140 billion per year on average,” it said.

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Earlier this year the European Commission responded with the launch of their Green Industrial Plan , aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the Europe’s net zero industries, followed up with initiatives including the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) , focused on the facilitation of clean technology industrial capabilities and capacity, and the European (..)

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Alternative asset and private equity investor KKR and Spanish bank BBVA announced the formation of a new strategic partnership, targeting climate solutions and climate infrastructure-related investments aimed at supporting the decarbonization of the real economy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2024

Logistics giant DHL Express announced today a new strategic partnership with UK-based international bank Standard Chartered to co-invest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) through DHL’s GoGreen Plus service, enabling Standard Chartered to balance its upstream logistics emissions with carbon credits.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2023

Although minerals are critical to a net zero future, ongoing environmental and social abuses cannot be ignored, urges Brumadinho community representative. There’s an increasing scramble for minerals from many governments with net zero commitments and the sheer extent of mineral dependency is starting to dawn,” he noted.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist focused on innovation and transformative technology as it relates to corporate climate action. Together they host the weekly GreenBiz 350 podcast, where they explore the organizations and individuals driving clean technology and sustainable businesses. Columbia Energy Exchange.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Abyd Karmali, Managing Director, Environment, Social and Governance Client Advisory at Bank of America, adds: “The private sector must deploy and mobilize trillions by 2030 to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy.

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CREA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is a refundable 30% tax credit on the capital cost of investments made by taxable entities in wind, solar PV and energy-storage technologies. For more information on powering Canada’s journey to net-zero, see  CanREA’s 2050 Vision. The details of this program will be available in Budget 2024.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

The analysis shows broad engagement and diverse approaches from some insurance companies: Insurers are offering new products that support risk reduction among their customers or that support clean technology, and these offerings take a variety of specific forms.

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Chris Hall

MAY 30, 2024

As Europe races to keep up with China and the US on clean technologies, state-backed export credit agencies’ role is expected to grow. You cannot ask banks or financial institutions to finance new technology and transition technologies all by themselves.” ING was one of four banks that contributed to a €4.4

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 18, 2024

Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas resources we have now, we will still be net-zero,” he claimed. Guess what? If you want Guyana to leave its oil in the ground, you start leading by example. Developing nations have been clamouring for rich countries to help them on these issues for decades.

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Net zero-committed asset managers still investing in laggard oil and gas majors, as pressure to stop financing new fossil fuel production builds. This universe is made up of 90 asset managers, including 25 members of the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative , that have collectively invested US$417 billion into these companies.

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CREA

APRIL 18, 2023

ITCs will propel renewables forward The ITC I am watching most closely is the 30% Clean Technology Investment Tax Credit, a refundable 30% tax credit on the capital cost of investments made by taxable entities in wind, solar PV and energy-storage technologies.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The world’s net zero future depends on introducing and upscaling clean technologies to neutralise and/or replace the hardest-to-abate CO2 emissions produced by carbon-intensive industries. achieve net zero by 2050. The problem is that the hydrogen being used in such large quantities isn’t net zero-aligned.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the race to net zero, Victoria Judd, Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, explains how the US is lapping the UK and EU in stimulating its green economy. Conversely, the robust US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has provided significant and immediate opportunities to invest in renewables.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“It’s an industry you can’t put on the internet; we will need shipping in the years to come, which means we have to ensure it is sustainable in the long term,” says Stephen Fewster, Global Head of Shipping Finance at Amsterdam-headquartered ING Bank. .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reducing these emissions has required governments to introduce electric vehicle incentives, companies to set manufacturing targets and consumers to factor sustainability into their transportation decisions – positioning EVs as the clean technology that will dominate the future of transport. per litre respectively in July 2022.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

For companies that fall short of those markers, the 15% clean technology and hydrogen tax credits will fall to 5%. In terms of impacts for emissions, impacts for clean growth, impacts for competitiveness in a net-zero world, I can’t think of anything that compares to this in a budget,” said Beugin. “It

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act and the Canadian logistics company embarking on a $1 billion vehicle fleet electrification. The post Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 17, 2023 appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 17, 2024

These tax revenues could also replace climate-related international aid, suggests Anna Crosby, Banking and Asset Finance Director at law firm Fieldfisher. As well as raising sustainable revenues, climate taxes could encourage a wider adoption of clean technologies and sustainable practices, which in turn could accelerate transition efforts.

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ESG Today

JULY 17, 2023

The new programs include the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund, which will provide grants to new national non-profit clean financing institutions to partner with the private sector in providing capital to fund tens of thousands of clean technology projects in homes, businesses and communities.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

HSBC revealed today a series of major changes to its climate goals, including a decision to push back its 2030 target to achieve net zero emissions in its operations and supply chain by 20 years, citing the slower pace of the transition across the real economy, in areas including climate technology, energy transition, and government policy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 24, 2024

But when the question was rephrased to offer the choice between ‘the economy’ and ‘a healthy, safe, clean environment,’ 55% chose the latter.” Rebates to lower-income families could help families afford to trade up to these clean alternatives. voters chose the former.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

There’s something about getting stranded on a remote island that brings things into focus – and in the case of an October kayaking trip, points the way to getting to a net-zero economy on time. Let’s be clear here: the sustainable clean energy economy is experiencing exponential growth. and Canada would do well to get on board.

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