ESG Today

JUNE 17, 2025

The development of the Taxonomy forms a key part of the Government of Australia’s Treasury department’s Sustainable Finance Roadmap, launched in 2023 , designed to enable financial markets to support the mobilization of private capital needed to finance the transition to a net zero economy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 4, 2025

International banking group Standard Charteredannounced the release of its inaugural Transition Plan, outlining its detailed plan to achieve its climate goals, including its target to reach net zero emissions across its financing activities by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2025

Manufacturers and industrial groups mostly seemed to respond to the new Industrial Strategy, 2 announced on 23 June, with sentiments ranging from cautious approval to enthusiastic endorsement. The UK has the highest industrial energy costs in the developed world.

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3BL Media

JUNE 11, 2025

marine biotechnology) and manufacturing (e.g. Tourism and offshore oil and gas extraction are the primary industries that have contributed to this total growth, while many new ocean sectors are also developing. 16 These include marine technologies (e.g. offshore wind and electrical equipment).

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JULY 10, 2025

Including GVA from the manufacture of chemicals and chemical products, the manufacture of basic metals, and the estimated GVA in the cement and lime industry within the other nonmetallic mineral products sector in 2022 for Portugal and Spain. 4 Direct air capture: A key technology for net zero , International Energy Agency, April 2022.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

Recent high-profile exits from industry groups like the Net Zero Asset Managers and Net Zero Banking Alliance illustrate the effects of these growing legal and reputational risks. In 2019, US regulators investigated car manufacturers over stricter fuel efficiency standards, though no collusion was found.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

While these are steps in the right direction, a careful World Bank assessment considers them seriously insufficient to protect health in this decade. Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Words including decarbonization, net-zero, anthropogenic or carbon footprint dont work. Richard Brooks, the Toronto-based climate finance director of Stand.earth, an environmental organization, notes the slippery shift from big banks. Right now, he says, that message needs to revolve around manufacturing jobs.

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Eco-Business

JULY 17, 2025

Image: World Bank Photo Collection , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. In a report last year, the World Bank warned that climate change was threatening educational attainment , creating an “economic time-bomb” Experts say classrooms should be no hotter than 26°C. Education 5. Gender equality 6. C warming limit.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 30, 2025

Apparel manufacturers can cut factory-level emissions by switching to energy-efficient equipment, installing renewable energy and using low-emission transportation. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Meanwhile, a large number of brands still lack visible efforts to finance their climate plans and support suppliers to decarbonise. Inequality 11.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 25, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 24, 2025

The manufacturing province had issued a new policy in late 2024 stating that green electricity purchases by local firms would now be a factor in evaluating local officials’ performance. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Energy 8. What caused the spike? In short, buyers representing big electricity users in Guangdong.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 30, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 10, 2025

Image: World Bank Photo Collection , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. Launched as part of the European Green Deal to make sure “no one and no region is left behind” in the transition to net zero, the fund was intended in part to retrain workers in areas like coal mines, steel factories and peat fields. Education 5.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 24, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6. Especially in the US, those that use ESG to describe their investment or business will soon drop the term, if they have not done so already.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2025

banks from net zero coalition; Net Zero finance umbrella group shifts focus after banks leave; process launched to expand, simplify EU Taxonomy; SBTi appoints new CEO; Biden bans offshore drilling across major portion of U.S. This week in ESG news: JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley complete exit of major U.S.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Doing less evil sustainable funds did a great job of tracking overall returns, despite horrible things like weapons manufacturers and for-profit prisons getting a bump from Trumps win late in the year, says Tim Nash, the founder of Good Investing, in an email. You can read a detailed explanation of the Corporate Knights methodology here.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 29, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 30, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 11, 2025

The exploration efforts of Philippine petroleum company PXP Energy Corp, in Reed Bank, a resource-rich area in the West Philippine Sea, have been stalled for years due to a maritime dispute with China, which claims the area as its own. “ Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 10, 2025

The industry was also backed this week by ex-US government officials calling for the World Bank to lift its ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing markets. Will a change of policy among development banks be a catalyst for increased flows of private finance into the nuclear energy sector? The pay package of 23.1

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Eco-Business

JUNE 25, 2025

Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 9, 2025

Rather than relying on options like international climate financing or development banks, I think more important are innovations such as what insurance schemes are going to be viable. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Insurance companies prefer to work with wealthier clients, frankly, rather than the world’s poorest.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Less than half of Canada’s major carbon emitters have adopted net-zero targets, and none have committed to aligning their capital spending with plans to reduce greenhouse gases, according to a report from Climate Engagement Canada (CEC). CEC, which comprises 41 of the largest asset managers in Canada, with $5.2 However, the lack of 1.5C-aligned

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

JPMorgan Chase wants to be the commercial bank for ‘green economy’ companies. Part of the commercial banking division, the group will include dedicated bankers led by Brian Lehman, who most recently led the JPMorgan Chase diversified financials team. Heather Clancy. Mon, 04/12/2021 - 00:05. The largest U.S. Finance & Investing.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 19, 2023

With Budget 2023’s “made-in-Canada plan” released in late March, the federal government has laid out its net-zero industrial policy – a response to the U.S. The made-in-Canada plan seeks to bolster manufacturing at home and secure a place for Canadian firms and products in global supply chains.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

JPMorganChase has chosen to exit the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, ESG Today has confirmed, marking the latest in a rapid-fire series of departures from the UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. C, SBTi 3 2 Vestas Wind Systems A/S Aarhus, Denmark Machinery manufacturing $ 141,969 19% 70:1 42% 100% 100% A 1.5°C,

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Taking planetary boundaries into account means that meeting the four key human demands —energy, food, manufacturing, and mobility—will require fundamental system changes,” said Jörg Eigendorf, Chief Sustainability Officer, Deutsche Bank, in an interview with SAPVoice on Forbes.com. This year, it was on August 1st.

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Eco-Business

JULY 21, 2025

Many major tech companies have net-zero emission and other sustainability goals, and large companies’ demand for clean energy such as from solar will grow to 275 gigawatts by 2035, according to estimates from the Clean Energy Buyers Association, an industry group that includes Google, Meta and Microsoft. .” Education 5.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 , the Government of Canada has invested billions of dollars in practical efforts to lessen the effects of climate change and encourage clean economic growth. Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. C, SBTi 6 25 Royal Canadian Mint Metal products manufacturing B+ SBTi, 1.5°C C, SBTi 6 25 Royal Canadian Mint Metal products manufacturing B+ SBTi, 1.5°C

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

JPMorgan Chase announced updates to its interim financed emissions reduction targets for three carbon-intensive sectors, including Oil & Gas, Electric Power and Auto Manufacturing, raising the ambition for each to align with pathways required to achieve net zero by 2050. million CO2e.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come. We need to look at manufacturers. And that’s just for voluntary offsets. Just the ticket.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 12, 2023

Highlights EU Bank raises size of its REPowerEU package by 50%, expands eligibilities to finance manufacturing in state-of-the-art Strategic Net-Zero Technologies Additional funding is expecte.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

C 11 15 Vancouver City Savings Credit Union Banks B NZAM, NZBA 13 18 Énergir Natural gas transmission and distribution B 14 Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation Telecom providers B 15 11 EPCOR Utilities Power transmission and distribution B 16 39 Alectra Inc Power transmission and distribution B- 17 Greenlane Renewables Inc.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

SSE Renewables and joint venture partner Equinor have reached financial close on Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the offshore wind farm based in the UK. The total investment in Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be approximately £9 billion ($12 billion), with around £3 billion ($4 billion) allocated for phase C including offshore transmission.

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