Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

That hard work is often hard to see, the product of millions of Canadians and thousands of businesses quietly, persistently adopting new approaches to life and work, eschewing waste, prioritizing collaboration and generally learning to do more with less. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2020

She chats about JPMorgan Chase's new financing commitment aligned with the Paris Agreement, how it's helping clients with their carbon mitigation journeys, and its strategy for supporting stronger community resilience. . Subject matter experts from Kwik Lok, Walmart and Second Harvest Food Bank join us at 1 p.m.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 26, 2022

Many large institutional investors such as pension funds and banks have targets to make their portfolios more sustainable, and green bonds are part of that mix. . However, the inclusion of nuclear in sustainable financing remains controversial, given ongoing concerns about long-term disposal of radioactive waste. .

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s why, as global leaders gather for yet another round of climate negotiations in the COP27 conference this month, waste is expected to be a hot topic (no pun intended). Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The Overlapping Climate Impacts of Waste . billion tonnes). off the road for a year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. Currently, humanity uses the equivalent of 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The sectors covered by the new agreement – including road and domestic maritime transport, buildings, agriculture, waste and small industries – account for 60% of total EU emissions. ka, said: “I am glad that we managed to reach a swift agreement on this proposal just in time for COP 27.

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ESG Today

MAY 6, 2024

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong’s central banking institution, announced the publication of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance, aimed at defining and classifying environmentally sustainable economic activities, to help inform decision making and facilitate green finance flows.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Strategic partners include Asian Development Bank and Clifford Capital, providing origination, technical support and project finance expertise. Pentagreen will initially focus on clean transport, renewable energy and energy storage, and water and waste management opportunities in Southeast Asia.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

degree pathway in line with the Paris Agreement. Tata Motors announced partnerships with the State Bank of India, HSBC India, HDFC, Axis Bank and Tata Capital to offer attractive loans and leasing solutions for small commercial and retail electric vehicles, with a target of driving 10-12% EV penetration by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

The carbon footprint of this product is certified by a professional third-party organization, based on ISO14067, and the accounting boundary is the entire life cycle from raw material acquisition to packaging and food waste disposal. As of December 2021, the KFC Food Bank program has covered more than 120 KFC restaurants in 23 cities.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. That is front and center for everything we do in packaging.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

Around 11 million tonnes of plastic waste flow into the ocean each year, an amount that if left unchecked could triple by 2040. Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors. We can learn from the Paris Agreement process and move fast on ocean plastics.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2024

This included a commitment to generally vote in favour of shareholder resolutions aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, taking a ‘comply-or-explain’ approach and publicly disclosing its rationale if voting against.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Established under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement , the Global Stocktake is designed “to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of [the Paris] Agreement and its long-term goals. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

E, S and G Climate-focused shareholder resolutions continued to dominate the ballot this proxy season, with over 90 proposals focused on emissions reduction goals across Scopes 1-3, net zero, or alignment with the Paris Agreement. A total 31 waste and pollution-themed resolutions achieved 14.35% in average shareholder support.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

As the slipping of climate targets continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that cutting emissions won’t be enough to keep global temperature increases below the 2ºC target enshrined by the 2015 Paris agreement. Envirotec writes. Much of the impetus seems to be coming from sectors that are difficult to de-carbonize.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

For example, the environmental footprint of the global food system is heaviest at the producer end of the supply chain, but the public equity and bank finance is currently focused primarily on manufacturing and retailers & food service. This will change.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

At a time when we should be committing to more climate action, we simply do not have any more time to waste promoting the future production of fossil fuels, which is the ultimate cause of the environmental crisis that we are facing.” “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The resulting report—available in both English and Spanish—provides a set of recommendations for Paraguay to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet its commitments made under the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In general, the new plan promotes low-carbon development and the circular economy with new approaches to transport, energy production, and waste management policies. This would put China within range of overachieving on its NDC non-fossil fuel targets, but it would be insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5C

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2023

The research by Bloomberg NEF showed that 17 countries maintained or improved their net-zero policy ratings, though the group as a whole are still falling behind on the goals of the Paris Agreement. The US has risen up the rankings thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Teresa Parejo, Sustainability Director for Iberia who presented Iberia’s plan: “Fleet renovation, digitalization of on-board paper, and a zero cabin waste plan are some of the actions to incorporate the SDGs into the aviation sector.” Representing the aviation sector was Ms.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2022

The Global Reporting Initiative assesses company activities and supply chains for a wide range of ESG impacts: Environmental: climate change, resource depletion, waste and pollution, deforestation. GFANZ specifically pressures financial service firms and G20 governments to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement (Paris Climate Accords).

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Or, as Redinger puts it, turning microbes in food waste “into miniature dye factories” that produce vegan colourants that are longer-lasting than plant-based dyes. million in financing so she can scale up her waste-diversion process to reach her goal of diverting 500,000 kilograms of waste from treatment and landfill by 2030.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 19, 2025

Development banks pledged US$120 billion in urban infrastructure financing by 2030, a meaningful step, though still far short of what cities require. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Economic growth 9. Infrastructure 10. Inequality 11. Climate 16.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

The Observatory will initially focus on methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, expanding to other emitting sectors including agriculture and waste. Methane causes 17% of global GHGs from human activities, principally from energy, agriculture and waste industries. To keep a global 1.5?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. How do you fix the gap?”

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A wasted year The report finds that, despite a decision by all countries at the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow, UK (COP26) to strengthen Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and some updates from nations, progress has been woefully inadequate. “We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. C over the century.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste. billion U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. Now, installing new wind turbines or solar farms is cheaper than keeping coal fired plants, as per the investment bank Lazard. This basically kills the business case for coal. Demand response technologies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. You’ve got until March 24 to suggest them. And now, I invite you to meet the 2021 class of Badass Women. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, New Zealand. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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