ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sustainable aviation fuel is seen as one of the key tools to help decarbonize the aviation industry, which currently accounts for 2-3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. United CEO Scott Kirby, said: “Solving climate change is doable but it requires hard work and real leadership. This fund is unique.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Last month, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) released its 2022 Report on Sustainable Investing , highlighting its commitment to be net-zero by 2050 and its engagement strategy to pressure companies to manage climate risks. Manley also said that “we’re already seeing Big Oil become Big Energy,” but this belief is mistaken.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2023

C and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The WEF’s Global Risks Report 2023 highlighted failure to respond to climate change and biodiversity loss among the most severe long-term risks facing the world.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

On the decarbonization front, Moody’s highlights the pressures likely to face sectors that are highly exposed to carbon transition risks that have yet to disclose detailed transition plans, such as oil and gas, mining and agriculture. Click here to access Moody’s 2023 ESG Outlook.

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Sphera

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27), which took place Nov. This year, over 100 world leaders attended the conference to discuss the myriad challenges posed by climate change, as well as how to address them. . Climate change is a problem that we all must work to solve.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The state's environmental leadership also extends to climate change mitigation policy. SB 253: Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act The common phrase in the GHG accounting world “you can't measure what you can't track" underlines the fact that decarbonization action starts with GHG emissions accounting.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 15, 2022

Greenwashing is very real and many companies are doing too little, too slowly. Powerful companies continue to lobby against climate policies. However, that doesn’t mean we should give up on all businesses as key players in tackling climate change. Look for good business examples to inspire just transition policies.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Analysis in the banks’ opposition statements would have investors believe these resolutions call for an immediate cessation of business relations with energy sector clients, and for a stymying of activities that would help high-emitting companies decarbonize.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By: Louie Woodall, Editorial Lead at Manifest Climate. Climate change is an existential risk to businesses. Extreme weather events and long-term climatic changes threaten to degrade organizations’ physical assets and disrupt their supply chains. Instead, it has to permeate through all aspects of an organization.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

In the climate world, aviation is referred to as a hard-to-abate sector, alongside other heavy industries — shipping, aluminum, cement and concrete, among others — that aren’t easy to decarbonize through redesign or electrification. But offsetting is seen as transitional — and controversial: Some critics view it as greenwash.

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Sphera

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Price and information are cited as biggest barriers to sustainable behavior change among consumers. Just 10% completely trust brand promises on climate change and only 10% find it very easy to get reliable sustainability data. The survey finds climate change skepticism is almost equally rife across the U.S.,

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Sustainable Round Table

MAY 23, 2023

As the global corporate community actively works to decarbonize, companies are increasingly pursuing renewable energy to mitigate their Scope 2 emissions. Solely supporting existing renewable energy projects often allows companies to avoid real climate action and support the status quo.

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Sphera

AUGUST 31, 2022

Sphera’s software enables Blackstone’s participating portfolio companies to strategically manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and measure progress against decarbonization goals. In 2022, Blackstone integrated Sphera’s carbon accounting solutions within its platform of resources available to portfolio companies. –Paul.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We must have zero tolerance for net zero greenwashing.” Yet the implication that all corporate climate action is tantamount to greenwashing is simply wrong. I regularly hear from CEOs, CSOs and other corporate leaders just how challenging it is to develop a credible decarbonization strategy and plan. C within reach.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Business leaders are always looking for ways they can improve and accelerate action towards their net-zero goals – the only route to addressing climate change. When robust scrutiny and constructive engagement is substituted for accusations of greenwashing, the barrier for corporate entry to the climate cause becomes even higher.

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B the Change

JUNE 22, 2022

(Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash ) Scaling Impact and Strengthening Accountability Toward Net Zero Through the B Corp Climate Collective Brigitta Nemes, Senior Manager Environmental Standards at B Lab Global, shares her reflections on a new direction for the B Corp Climate Collective’s work on net zero.

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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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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We saw new highs of ambition within one of the hardest-to-decarbonize sectors, as Cemex, Holcim and Titan become the first cement companies to set 1.5°C-aligned 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.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

We believe the long-term drivers for sustainable investing remain strong, despite a rapidly changing economic and policy environment and ESG ‘pushback’. Even as the physical impacts of climate change drive costs higher, we see innovations in products and services creating significant opportunities for progress and investment returns.

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Just Capital

APRIL 14, 2023

We’re seeing that play out right now in the climate world. Insufficient action on climate change could cost the U.S. The Washington Post covers the FTC’s expected crackdown on ‘greenwashing.’ Invention results in impact, opportunity, and growth. Scientists increasingly warn of an unmanageable future if we don’t act.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Historic progress was made with countries agreeing to channel financial support to vulnerable communities that are already suffering devastating impacts from climate change. The deal struck in Sharm El Sheikh provided little towards changing that trend. Cemex, Holcim and Titan became the first cement companies to set 1.5°C-aligned

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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. We had the “Day of reckoning” for big oil.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As customers demand greener products and services, investors seek out the next big climate solution, and governments legislate to cut emissions, companies know they need to decarbonize, and fast. Ambition: Has the company set the right decarbonization targets? Advocacy: Is your company’s lobbying in line with your climate goals?

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

According to scientists achieving net-zero before 2050 is critical to keeping us safe from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. The number of net-zero emissions commitments has doubled this year, as many prioritize climate action in their recovery from Covid-19 ( Data-Driven EnviroLab report). ETS in Europe).

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This concept describes how corporate information can be important both for its implications about a firm’s financial value, and about a firm’s impact on the world at large, particularly when it comes to climate change and other environmental impacts. In fact, 50% of Gen Z consumers believe that organizations or brands are greenwashing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open. Economists are rethinking core assumptions. Economists began as social scientists with an inferiority complex and later rebranded themselves as scientific professionals using quantitative tools with exceptional loopholes.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This week, dozens of corporations re-upped goals, reflecting that the private sector is internalizing what’s at stake — physically, reputationally and economically — if climate change is left unchecked. Some of the most notable (some announced in the run-up to Climate Week) include: . Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s impossible not to see and feel the impacts of climate change when you’re in the thick of it in the day-to-day, and we all are now,” says Steele, who was born and raised in British Columbia, where deadly heat domes, atmospheric rivers and record-breaking wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Are carbon credits a legitimate tool to fight climate change? times on average: In other words, a typical cookstove project could be claiming to produce roughly six times more carbon credits than the actual climate benefits it generated. Ben Jeffreys is the CEO of ATEC Global, an international leader in PAYGO clean cooking.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Net zero signals of change this week include billions of euros for industrial decarbonization in Germany. Net Zero Economy / Finance The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a new report that helps to define ‘greenwashing’ from the authority’s point of view.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Focused on the decarbonization of semiconductor supply chains, the initiative aims to provide opportunities for suppliers to participate in utility-scale power purchase agreements (PPAs). improvement in water-use efficiency in water-stressed regions and delivered over 23,500 hours of training to farmers.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

While the name may be different, fundamentally the strategy is similar to earlier climate commitments: reduce emissions as quickly as possible. . Corporate energy leaders can drive decarbonization in the power sector. Any net-zero plan that is serious about addressing climate change must include rapid decarbonization.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. A prominent example is “Engine No. Implications So, here is what we would now advise our PhD student.

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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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

UN Climate Change’s NDC synthesis report found they would collectively only deliver a 5.3% C of climate change by 2100. The official verdict was clear. reduction in CO2 emissions versus 2019, setting a course for 2.1-2.8°C The cost profile [of transition] is going to become centre stage,” he notes.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Climate quitters People who resign from their jobs over concerns about climate change. In January, Bloomberg identified a new trend in the workplace: leaving your old job to work on climate change full-time. One reason 2023 was so hot (apart from climate change)?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? For example, companies may refer to becoming "carbon negative" or "climate positive"; or that they seek to achieve "net-zero" or "net-negative" emissions or "deep decarbonization"; or that they plan to become "emissions-free" or achieve "zero emissions"; or that they are committed to a "1.5 Joel Makower.

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