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At COP27, Investors, Companies, and Policymakers Must Accelerate Urgent Action on the Climate and Water Crises To Cut Emissions in Half by 2030

3BL Media

Ceres, along with its partners, will call on investors, companies, and policymakers to build on the progress since COP26 and turn commitments into even more ambitious actions and implement bold policies in line with the scientific need to limit average temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C. This event will be live-streamed.

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The zero-carbon business leader takes shape

Corporate Knights

As the number of severe weather events continues to rise across Canada and globally, it’s evident the fight against climate change is a constant threat to our world’s health, safety, and sustainability. This article is “sponsored content” as defined by Corporate Knights’ content disclosure policy. According to the?

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Companies Must Show Accountability for Biodiversity Impacts

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As 22 May marked the International Day of Biological Diversity , we are less than eight years away from the 2030 deadline to reverse biodiversity loss, which was internationally reaffirmed at November’s COP26 climate conference.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. 2021 Sustainability Summary.

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

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. In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. In fact, this has been a COP of action.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Many of the communities dealing with this recent flooding have already had to deal with a range of cascading climate events in recent years. Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26. At COP26 in Glasgow, Australia refused to commit to phasing out coal.

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What Net-Zero companies are and How to start the journey

Carlos Sanchez

Moreover, according to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average 11.4 According to Dexter Galvin, Global Director of CDP Supply Chain, there are six benefits of setting a science-based target. Besides, it could use sustainability reporting platforms such as CDP. Details of the Net-zero Standard launch event are here.