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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. BNP Paribas is enlisting Christina Cho , in her 13th year at the bank, as co-head with Anne van Riel of Sustainable Finance Capital Markets Americas. Who's news.

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Biden Launches $20 Billion Climate and Clean Tech Project Financing Programs

ESG Today

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and totaling $20 billion, aimed at financing climate and clean energy projects at the community and small business level. According to the EPA, at least 40% of the funds from the program will be dedicated to low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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ESG Explainer: Managing the Methane Menace

Chris Hall

A commitment was also made to using the highest tier IPCC good practice inventory methodologies, as well as working to continuously improve the accuracy, transparency, consistency, comparability, and completeness of national GHG inventory reporting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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Earth Day – Climate Week – The World Celebrates Promises and Actions to Meet Climate Change Challenges

Sustainability Update

is fully “back” in climate change matters with the nation rejoining the Paris Agreement and embracing and promising to surpass the COP temperature-limiting goals. US reentry to Paris agreement adds momentum to cities’ sustainability efforts (Source: The Hill ). Good news for 2021: The U.S.A. TOP STORIES.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. The EPA also finalized a federal clean cars rule, which will result in more than 3.1

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Take Five: Falling Flat

Chris Hall

She was also due to meet former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who since leaving Threadneedle Street has headed up Brookfield Asset Management’s innovative energy transition fund and become one of the world’s loudest advocates for green finance. Reeves was in Canada this week talking to local funds to get ideas of how to do it.

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Sustainability Backsliding Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Square One

Stanford Social Innovation

The head of the EPA has asked the White House to repeal the endangerment finding, which says that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare, contradicting climate science. JP Morgan and Citigroup have left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, but have stated that they plan to work independently on the path to net-zero.