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Accelerating Climate Action

3BL Media

This year, the company was represented by a team of leaders, including Scott Tew, vice president of Sustainability; Jose La Loggia, president of Commercial HVAC EMEA; Helen Walter-Terrinoni, director of global climate policy; and Adnan Javed, general manager of Commercial HVAC for the Middle East. And we get to be a part of it.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

It will cost too much money to decarbonize our economy,” they protest. When you compare those costs (and the long-term savings they will yield in the form of a more efficient global economy) against the costs of inaction, they show a clear choice. Ecocentricity Blog: Reflecting on Ten Years of our Philanthropic Voyage.

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How European Climate Policy Can Bolster Energy Efficiency Measures

3BL Media

This blog is co-signed by Morten Petersen, Member of European Parliament. Energy systems are, consequently, becoming more decentralized, digitized and decarbonized. But to accelerate decarbonization in line with the Green Deal, EU policymakers must more actively stimulate untapped efficiency improvements on the demand side.

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Video : Energy efficiency’s time has finally arrived

Edouard Stenger

These are good signs of the global decarbonization of our global economies. Million jobs globally. The video goes on then about something I blogged about, namingly how sales of gas powered vehicles have already peaked. This would also create 4.5

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Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey

GreenBiz

The ensuing conversations — and, no doubt, many more to come — are a continuation of the learning journey I’ve been on for the past few years, seeking to understand the role of the financial sector in advancing sustainability solutions and a clean, decarbonized economy. Even still, last week’s conversations were a real eye-opener.

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GHG Accounting and Science-Based Target Setting for Financial Institutions and Private Equity

Sphera

To decarbonize the global economy in alignment with the goals established by the Paris Agreement, all economic actors in the real economy need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sufficiently to align with required emissions pathways.

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Business welcomes The Glasgow Climate Pact: We Mean Business Coalition statement

We Mean Business Coalition

C pathway, coal-fired power generation must be phased out by 2030 for advanced economies, and 2040 for other countries. In referencing coal and fossil fuel subsidies specifically, the Glasgow Climate Pact emphasizes that their continuation are among the biggest obstacles for decarbonizing the global economy at the required speed and scale.