Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But that’s the mandate of Simon Stiell, the former environment minister of Grenada who is now the United Nations’ climate chief – the man most responsible for achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

That’s why I believe one of the most neglected clauses in the Paris Agreement might just be our best hope for planetary transformation. In arcane COP-speak – the Paris Agreement says communications is important to enable the rest of its own provisions.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Following two weeks of intensive negotiations, the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended with an agreement to triple climate change-related finance flows to developing nations to $300 billion annually over the next decade, and with significant progress towards the development of international carbon markets.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2025

This transformation is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting international climate targets, including limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels as outlined in the Paris Agreement. Combatting climate change Reducing carbon emissions is at the core of energy transition efforts.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 12, 2024

While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly. Athletes have also expressed concerns about the threats posed to competitors by climate change.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2025

International Olympic Committee news As world leaders meet at COP29 to agree actions to address the climate crisis, a new study illustrates how effective climate action could reduce the impact of climate change on winter sport. These decisions are supported by extensive consultation and scientific evidence.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We If you want to know what HSBC's stance on climate change really is, look at what they fund, not their fluffy marketing," he added. Pull Quote.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Ahead of COP29, report calls for systemic risks of climate change to be viewed through both real economy and financial sector lens. Climate-related systemic risk will not be properly reflected by financial markets until governments ensure both real economy and financial sector policies support climate alignment, recent research suggests.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The new decarbonization goal, to be officially presented at the COP29 climate conference currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, will form Brazil’s second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

November 25, 2024 /3BL/ - Ceres President and CEO Mindy Lubber issued the following statement after COP29, as global negotiators at the climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, finalized an agreement to help keep the world on track to reduce pollution dangerously overheating the planet. Backsliding on U.S.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Banks are shelling out more than US$500 billion a year to finance the largest contributors to climate change in the Global South, a region that is especially vulnerable to the roiling weather disasters gripping the planet. Together, that amounts to an average of $513 billion a year – or more than 20 times the $22.5

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2021

Beyond raising funds, the foundation aimed to raise awareness about the potential for digital technologies to address climate change, as well as their potential negative impact. A Paris Agreement for blockchain. Like the Paris Agreement, this broad pact is pathway-agnostic.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2024

International Olympic Committee news This will enable the IOC to engage more effectively with the global efforts to address climate change, underscoring its commitment to reducing emissions and to leveraging the role of sport as an “important enabler” for the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “We

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Renew Economy

MAY 9, 2022

Only the Greens and 'teal' independents have climate policies consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement, new analysis shows. The post Major parties have Australia on track to blow past Paris targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 23, 2022

Instead, it envisages a treaty akin to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions. There is no equivalent provision in the Paris agreement. The Paris agreement includes a similar request with regards to adapting to climate change.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted last week, we are in the midst of a climate emergency. This cannot continue if we are realistically going to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 1.5 ° C. All regulators must be de facto climate regulators.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sofidel has once again been recognized by CDP – one of the main independent organizations for measuring and reporting environmental performance globally – for its commitment to fighting climate change and deforestation.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 15, 2024

Last month in the United Arab Emirates, the global community gathered for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), resulting in an important agreement signed on commitments and actions that seek to mitigate climate change. A revised GRI Biodiversity Standard is set to launch in the coming weeks.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Delegates at the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) achieved an important breakthrough on the first day of the event in Baku, Azerbaijan, reaching consensus on standards for the creation of carbon credits under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, key for advancing the establishment and growth of a global carbon market.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2025

Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report Lenovo has responded to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)s urgent call for corporate climate action by committing to align with 1.5C campaign, an official partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Race to Zero campaign.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2019

degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency. This article originally appeared on Ensia.In 2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6

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Global Renewable News

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Swedish Energy Agency and the Zambian Ministry of Environment have signed an agreement on emissions trading under the Paris Agreement. The next steps are to negotiate suitable emission reduction p.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Swedish Energy Agency and Rwanda's Ministry of the Environment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on emissions trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The next steps are to agre.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

​As the global community steps up to accelerate urgent action against climate change, a multitude of sustainability events are taking place over the next few months to make critical progress towards a healthier planet. What is the 8th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation (APAN) Forum? What is the forum theme this year?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”. Whether they’re doing so and backing it up with action is a different issue.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

And climate change remains a big one. . Amazon aims to clean up aviation. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00. The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. The industry aims to build back better, aware that it's one of the few sectors that hasn't yet embraced electrification.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The new decarbonization goal will form the UK’s new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are national climate action plans presented by each country under the agreement, and are required to be updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition.

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3BL Media

JUNE 18, 2025

Throughout the United States, towns and cities of all sizes are responding to the challenges posed by climate change by implementing solutions to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint and address climate risks. Municipalities across the U.S.

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ESG Today

JUNE 18, 2025

According to the ECB, the new target is aimed at keeping its holdings on a path that supports the goals of the Paris Agreement and EU climate neutrality objectives. At the ECB, we take climate change into account when pursuing our mandate.

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3BL Media

JULY 24, 2023

Originally published in Paramount's 2021-2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report The impacts of climate change continue to accelerate around the world and are projected to worsen each year unless we take serious collective action on a global scale.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Join us for a conversation about the power of companies (big and small) coming together to tackle the climate crisis, and hear why Global Optimism and Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a bold commitment to become net zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The GSIA’s report contains recommendations for three groups – policymakers, investors, and COP29 negotiators – to overcome barriers preventing action on climate change and mobilising net zero-aligned public and private finance. C temperature pathway.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. HSBC’s climate commitments include investing at least $750 billion in sustainable financing over the next 10 years. HSBC paid $36.40

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change.

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