GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We It also said it would work with the broader finance sector to create a standard to measure financed emissions and support a functioning carbon offset market.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

degrees Celsius as a result of climate change, the UN reports that we must collectively achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Here’s what you need to know to get started right now: What Is Climate Neutrality? Climate neutrality must be accompanied by climate adaption and biodiversity strategies.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). This type of agreement also helps distribute the project risks, facilitating access to finance.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: At Qualcomm, we believe we can help address the environmental, social, and economic impacts of climate change by working together across all sectors of society. How can Qualcomm technologies be used to address the climate crisis? SOURCE: Qualcomm. Why 2040 vs 2050? Why set interim goals?

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Decarbonization is in global focus. As societies race to meet the goals set by the Paris Agreement , companies are under pressure to reduce emissions from governments, NGOs, consumers, regulators, shareholders and employees. Overall, the market for carbon credits could be worth upward of $50 billion in 2030.” .

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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