ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The campaign is backed by many of the world’s largest financial institutions including Allianz Global Investors, AXA Group, Crédit Agricole and UBS, as well as by 45 multinational companies with over $710 billion in annual procurement spending, such as PepsiCo, Astra Zeneca, and Schneider Electric.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) announced today the appointment of Maria Outters as Chief Impact Officer, a newly created role for the organization, aimed at driving strategic engagements, strengthening governance, and accelerating the growth of corporate climate action.

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Paris Agreement CDP Global Economy Climate Change 109

3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

The CDP Global Water Report (2020) informs us that, when it comes to water security, “The cost of inaction is five times the cost of action.”. KEYWORDS: water risk, Water Mandate, CEO Water Mandate, scs global services, third party certification, water stewardship, clean water, ESG, climate change.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

Employees are seeking safety, security, and stability; regulators seek to ensure their communities are protected from contamination and competition for resources; investors are seeking “sustainable investments” and projects; and business leaders must protect and grow their organization in an ever-changing global economy.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Founded in 2015, SBTi was formed as a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

States and regions have, on average, reduced emissions by 14% as global emissions continue to rise. The Climate Group and CDP call for states and regions to set more ambitious emissions reduction targets for 2030 and beyond to limit global heating to 1.5°C By comparison, only 25% of global electricity is renewable.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The intention is for targets become more ambitious each time they are submitted, with the need increasing in urgency after the Global Stocktake at last year’s COP28. The statement will remain open until 1 November, ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where it will be presented to governments with the final list of signatures.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Climate change is no longer a distant threat – in what is the hottest year on record, it is an everyday reality and one that every person, business and ecosystem is vulnerable to. Meanwhile, insights from the CDP Supply Chain Membership reveal which buyer practices most closely correlate with supplier action on climate.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nature underpins societal wellbeing by providing basic life support services and material goods such as soil, air, water, food, fuel, and fibre 1 , so the impacts of nature loss are wide-reaching and threaten the foundations of our global economies, livelihoods, and food systems 2,3.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5

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We Mean Business Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2023

We need to halve emissions by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C C and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The risks of failing to take action are clear.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 12, 2023

However, the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also left no doubt that feasible, effective, and low-cost options exist to deeply reduce emissions now. There is no more time to waste in the global effort to tackle climate change. It’s time to get started.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2023

HM Treasury established the TPT in April 2022 to develop a ‘ gold standard ’ for private sector climate transition plans Credible and robust plans According to the TPT, its framework provides the basis for companies to set out “credible and robust” transition plans as part of annual reporting its future business strategy.

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Net Zero CDP Development Global Economy 72

Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

A total of 2,253 companies across 70 countries and 15 industries have approved emissions reductions targets or commitments with the organisation, with 80% of targets approved by SBTi in 2021 aligned with limiting climate change to 1.5°C.

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Net Zero CDP Global Economy Paris Agreement 52

Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

The climate crisis and the water crisis are two sides of the same coin in private sector efforts to protect our planet and global economy. Water is the lifeblood of the global economy – yet it’s been chronically mismanaged by the private sector and other stakeholders. Connecting the dots.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

As negotiations unfolded at the Bonn Climate Change Conference earlier this month, the politicisation of an existential and global threat was clear to see. What made negotiators’ incremental progress even more frustrating was that the squabbling was underpinned by the realities of a rapidly warming planet.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As one of the most cost-effective methods of fighting climate change, nature-based climate solutions (NBS) have the capability to provide one third of the solutions to reach the 1.5 ° C pathway according to McKinsey and the World Economic Forum , and business has a vital role to play. . REPORT AND COMMUNICATE TRANSPARENTLY .

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Our collective impact was not being felt and the many business leaders who wanted an enabling policy environment for greater climate action were not being fully heard. This was the context in which We Mean Business was conceived, and I was privileged to take on the role of Founding Chair.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This means companies MUST consider the financial risks of climate change on the company’s financial situation – short, medium and long term. In April 2024, CDP rolled out a dedicated SME corporate questionnaire , which is a simplified version of their corporate questionnaire and allows SMEs to report voluntarily.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Highly respected institutions such as the International Energy Association (IEA) and the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) remain upbeat that the shift to a net zero global economy is possible and well underway. The post In Defence of Corporate Climate Action appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Moreover, companies will use voluntary frameworks and surveys such as GRI, SASB, CDP, UNGC, and Ecovadis to answer requests from customers, investors and other stakeholders. Countries and companies have taken responsibility for climate change and raised their carbon emissions reduction ambition.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

climate action and investments, as public and private sector leaders raise their ambition, deliver on commitments, implement policies to capitalize on the opportunities in the necessary transition to a zero emissions future, and ensure public finance to support adaptation and resilience for developing nations. November 3, 2022 /3BL Media/ -

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Failure to focus on water-related issues risks derailing efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. The UN has previously said that water and climate change are “inextricably linked”, with the latter “exacerbating” both water scarcity and water-related hazards, such as floods and droughts.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Preparing for the storm: The role of UK business and government in improving UK resilience to climate change in the UK’ explores how leading UK businesses are already increasing community resilience through climate adaptation strategies and action. including Israel and Ecuador.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

“Companies must act now” Formed as a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the We Mean Business Coalition, SBTi d evelops criteria and provide tools and guidance to enable businesses and financial institutions to set GHG emissions reduction targets (..)

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A court forced Shell to reduce emissions, an activist investor forced ExxonMobil to replace three board members better suited to fight climate change, and Chevron shareholders voted against their board to achieve faster-cut carbon emissions. As an example, according to CDP 2021 supply chain report , upstream emissions are 11.4

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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. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What seemed to resonate best in follow-up discussion was the possibility of analogizing our climate crisis to the issues of forced labor and LGBTQ rights, regarding which corporations have been willing to embrace a relatively simple and effective moral framing, language, and demand. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 17, 2025

This means you better listen to what they say about climate change. Also according to the institute , the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 unless immediate policy action on risks posed by the climate crisis is taken.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The post Trump and the Business of Climate Change appeared first on ESG Investor. On a per-company basis, the average totals US$3.1

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