Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. We need to cut greenhouse emissions rapidly in this decade to avoid the catastrophic and unpredictable effects of climate change. Both types of projects are essential for humanity to achieve a net-zero future.

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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change. C goal and into levels of warming that will bring dangerous climate impacts. Finance pledges and cries of ‘greenwashing’.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve been involved in the climate negotiations for several years as a former senior U.N. There has been a shift at this year’s summit, from making pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050 to a focus on actions to cut emissions by 2030. F) compared to pre-industrial times, an aim of the Paris climate agreement.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

Despite the undeniable evidence that the world is charting an increasingly dangerous climate course, world leaders once again missed a critical opportunity to act. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. C pathway we are currently on.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jam open the closing window – The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 was the most sobering of the many pre-COP27 analyses published this week, highlighting the inadequacy of our efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C C course to 2.5°C

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

Stuart Lemmon, Global Managing Director for the Net Zero Transformation Practice at EcoAct, an Atos company, outlines the elements of a credible corporate climate strategy and explains why we should embrace scrutiny and work collectively on the path to net zero. o C remains highly uncertain. C trajectory.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

The private sector’s ability to accelerate the pace of net zero transition is open to question. When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

Investor engagement with companies on climate change has come under the spotlight, with some warning of shortcomings with current processes. The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. How should engagement work in principle?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

With Google, Unilever and Hitachi among those already signed up to road-test the provisional code, VCMI is hoping more businesses will take up what it calls a globally standardised benchmark when using carbon credits as part of their net zero strategies. . Market-based solutions are critical to reducing emissions.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps. At COP26 last year, we left with the feeling that businesses were committed to net zero.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

On the investment side, many managers have signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, are using the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change’s Net Zero Investment Framework to set and monitor targets, and have joined the investor-led initiative Climate Action 100+. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Loss and damage relates to climate-related impacts which cannot be adapted to. Loss and damage is happening because we have not adequately tackled climate change, cut emissions or taken action to adapt. Will a company’s investment take it a step closer towards a net zero world, or will it be a stranded asset tomorrow?

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Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2022

UK plan for net zero financial centre depends on development of a “nature-positive” economy, according to new report. We’ve got to think about the nature crisis in tandem with the climate crisis. According to Alexander, the SDR regime has the potential to take bold steps against greenwashing. Tackling twin crises.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? Getting any advice is difficult as carbon consultants are busy post COP26 and we, like many businesses nationwide, have limited in-house capacity to do it ourselves – although we’re making changes there!

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The proposed implementation guidance and the disclosure framework both build on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) transition plan framework , as well as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The proposed implementation guidance and the disclosure framework both build on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) transition plan framework , as well as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate success requires laws that ensure consistent reporting on emissions reductions, writes Jane Thostrup Jagd of the We Mean Business Coalition. Debates are currently underway in both the EU and the US about how companies should report on the risks that climate change is bringing to their business – and vice versa.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a result, investors have increasingly relied on unregulated ratings firms and data providers to assess, among other ESG factors, the impact of climate change on a company as well as the company’s own impact on the environment. Risk of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. It doesn’t make it certain.”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To support emerging market climate transitions, developed countries and private investors are drawing up an ambitious blueprint, but is it working? The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) will be delivering half of the financial commitments made to Indonesia and Vietnam.

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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.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only did it set the tone for a wide range of adaptation initiatives throughout COP27, by focusing attention on the Global South it changed the narrative of climate diplomacy, helping to pave the way for the loss and damage fund , the proceeds of which will ultimately bolster physical defences against climate change. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Further, the shortcomings of Europe’s renewable energy directive will be debated more urgently, as energy security concerns combine with net zero targets. As some noted , legislative momentum on sustainability and climate was already slowing, just 100 days after COP26.

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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. As they work towards their climate goals, companies must prioritize people – and the just transition has been a key theme at this COP. C-aligned science-based targets. In fact, this has been a COP of action. ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures. It ignores that some investments are still enabling climate change.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Climate Action Tracker described the amended goal a “significant step forward from the previous 26% reduction target” but said a 60% reduction was needed to put Japan on a 1.5°C Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The aims of the UN’s Climate Action Pathway for Finance , published in advance of COP26 last year, are nothing if not ambitious. By 2050, its vision is for asset managers to have adjusted their business models to ensure that every financial decision takes climate change into account.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Something significant is happening in the desert in Egypt as countries meet at COP27 , the United Nations summit on climate change. Climate finance has been one of the thorniest issues in global climate negotiations for decades, but I’m seeing four promising signs of progress at COP27. One year on, something is stirring.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. This point was made in a Guardian article by Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, and the head of a delegation of 11 Ukrainian scientists that contributed to the latest IPCC report. “I Ukraine delivered more than promises.

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