We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Join thousands of companies seizing the opportunities of climate action for a net zero, 1.5°C-aligned C-aligned world by accessing the 4 A’s of Climate Leadership framework. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) can join the SME Climate Hub to commit to net zero with a tailored target-setting pathway.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Tying CEO pay to climate metrics seen as increasing accountability to investors, but no consensus on optimal approach. . The practice of incentivising CEOs to deliver on climate change commitments through remuneration is in its infancy, with many firms struggling to identify appropriate metrics or balance short- and long-term goals. .

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2023

We strive to provide our stakeholders with relevant information on climate-related issues following the TCFD recommendations. See our TCFD index for references to our CDP response and portions of this report on how we address the eleven recommendations of TCFD. Similar risk and compliance committees exist on regional and local levels.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

As the fallout continues over the Science Based Targets initiative’s approach to offsets, is the net zero target-setting landscape for corporates fit for purpose? In 2024, the number of listed companies with a climate commitment validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) jumped to 20% from just 12% in 2023.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

billion over the next five years as it moves toward a 2050 net-zero target? When experts at CDP, a nonprofit that tracks sustainability commitments, surveyed 479 food and ag companies , only 75 reported having emissions commitments in line with the Paris Agreement. Or back in March at Horizon Organic, a U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

After all, through their product offerings, lending activities and client engagement, financial institutions can play a key role in influencing the transformation necessary for a net-zero emissions economy. What we have given the market is an ambition that our total financing by 2050 will be net zero.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This emphasizes that people-centered climate action is essential to ensure social cohesion and increase the societal buy-in required for an accelerated and sustainable transition to a net-zero economy — within planetary boundaries and at a pace aligned with science.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Net-zero emissions companies is one of the fastest-growing business trends. According to scientists achieving net-zero before 2050 is critical to keeping us safe from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. Still, many organizations struggle to make their first steps to become Net-Zero companies.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels, falling well short of the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C C ambition needed to avoid the most significant effects of global warming, according to a new study released today by climate research provider and environmental disclosure platform CDP, and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

European market infrastructure provider Euronext announced today the launch of a new index investing in companies with climate goals approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as in line with the 1.5°C C goal of the Paris Agreement.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. Science-based targets show businesses how much and how quickly they need to reduce their GHG emissions to limit/counteract climate change. C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change. Near-term targets.

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ESG Today

JULY 13, 2023

European market infrastructure provider Euronext announced today the launch of two new indices investing solely in companies with climate goals approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as in line with the 1.5°C C goal of the Paris Agreement. earlier this year, and are the company’s 27th and 28th climate indices.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, the world is already 1.1°C C hotter than preindustrial levels, and unfortunately, the global climate crisis continues to grow increasingly dire 3. Keeping warming to 1.5°C Corporate sustainability leaders have taken action.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 16, 2023

The transition to a net zero economy is underway but – as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns – far greater efforts are needed from governments and business to limit global warming to 1.5°C C and avoid the most disastrous impacts of climate change. C trajectory. However, only 0.4%

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

The main critique of net zero commitments is that companies are delaying action and relying too heavily on offsetting with carbon credits to reduce emissions,” according to a new Ceres report , which advises investors, lenders and companies on the appropriate use of carbon credits in climate commitments.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The core question is: what must policymakers, corporates and investors do to make good on last year’s pledges and commitments to keep the world on track for net zero by 2050? More tangible definitions and frameworks around carbon pricing are a pre-requisite step, albeit an insufficient one, toward achieving net zero, panellists agreed.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A greater focus on phasing down fossil fuels and ensuring transparency around net zero goals emerged in Sharm El Sheikh, writes We Mean Business Coalition CEO María Mendiluce. The deal struck in Sharm El Sheikh provided little towards changing that trend. Business welcomes greater transparency in reporting on net zero goals.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

UK proposals to mandate climate transition plans are part of wider scrutiny effort. . It is a truth universally acknowledged that a company transitioning to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner is in want of a detailed plan. . How do they translate on a net zero journey?

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. On the other hand, sustainability and climate change have never been so much in focus. Besides, the global responsible investing driven assets hit $40.5 ” Mahatma Gandhi.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. government – the world’s largest purchaser – proposed that all federal contractors must set science-based targets and disclose their environmental impact through CDP, following in Norway’s recent footsteps. C-aligned science-based 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. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. Carbon Offsets Market growth.

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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. C-aligned targets as the new normal for corporates.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Despite suffering severe impacts from climate change, Australia remains married to coal, but alternative energy opportunities are emerging. Many of the communities dealing with this recent flooding have already had to deal with a range of cascading climate events in recent years. What are Australia’s stated net zero goals?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The number of companies proclaiming their intent to go net-zero by 2050 has expanded exponentially in the past 12 months, but the ones short-cutting that commitment by a decade are a rarer breed. Did that experience influence the final shape of the climate goals? What can they do to mitigate climate change?

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Report highlights Bloomberg’s work to mobilize the markets to fight climate change and its company-wide efforts to boost climate action in the lead up to COP26 Glasgow. This in turn helps markets to better understand how climate can impact businesses and economies. Climate change is not a problem with a single solution.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

We could describe the enthusiastic presentations and panel discussions over the two days by global participants a kumbaya gathering to refresh and update the 2015 Paris Agreement (or Accord) moments as the world leaders then set out ambitious goals to limit global warming. The measures sovereign governments (large and small!)

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

But Putin’s war could have the opposite effect on the goals of COP15, the much-delayed UN conference to ratify the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) – often referred to as nature’s Paris Agreement – which is currently scheduled for Q3 2022. Investors’ experience with climate-related risks are instructive, but only to a degree.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

As a growing number of asset owners commit to transitioning their investments to net zero, they are becoming increasingly aware of how deforestation threatens the realisation of their decarbonisation targets. . “We Despite slow progress , policymakers will also be gathering at COP15 in Montreal this December to finalise the GBF.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

And while there are instructive parallels with the catalytic impact of the Paris Agreement on identifying and mitigating climate risks by the private sector, there are also important differences. Critically, assessing nature risks is undoubtedly a more multi-faceted process than counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? This year, there has been much ado about zero. It’s becoming hard to read the green media, or even the mainstream media, without seeing new net-zero commitments from companies, governments, institutions and others. Now, net-zero is the flavor of the month. Joel Makower.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

However, a lack of regulation, transparency and governance means that EMs choosing to incorporate VCMs into their climate strategies are exposing themselves to a number of potential risks. . Climate capital . Global mangrove forests sequester around 22.8 It’s also a matter of splitting carbon credits fairly.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This was the 21st meeting of the global assemblage focused on climate change challenges. The Promise of Paris was the coming together of the world’s sovereign states – the family of nations — to address once more what for many if not all of the states is an existential threat: climate change.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community.

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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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