Sustainability Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

With up to 75% of the infrastructure that will be needed by 2050 yet to be built, it is critical that design and investment decisions made today consider the scale, scope and severity of climate change impacts. This has come from a global focus on climate change and net zero targets set by governments and corporations alike.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Global branded food company Hormel Foods announced today a series of new climate targets, including a goals to reduceabsolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its operations 50%, and within its supply chain 27.5% by 2030, compared to a 2019 base year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. They care as citizens, consumers and business owners. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Climate Pledge encourages businesses worldwide to take immediate and impactful action to combat climate change. By signing The Climate Pledge, Rayonier joins a growing community of over 460 companies that are committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's target.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most. .

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3BL Media

MAY 18, 2022

This award recognizes the company’s continued efforts to address ESG-related issues across its operations, supply chain and products, including progress undertaken over the past year in partnership with employees and suppliers as well as in the areas of human rights and governance.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

And climate change remains a big one. . More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . A startup called Infinium announced it has raised a round of funding including backing from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund. Supply Chain.

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James Militzer

MARCH 8, 2023

In the 12 years that Musialela has worked as a “farm business advisor” (FBA), training other farmers on modern agricultural techniques and selling them supplies, she says the climate has changed significantly. According to UN Women, the climate crisis isn’t “gender neutral.”

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite official negotiations on agriculture and food security being tabled until next year, over 150 countries signed onto the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action. But only a few, such as Yum!

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3BL Media

APRIL 28, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Climate change is one of the most urgent global challenges. Ericsson continues its focus on energy use and environmental impact of technology as well as operations across the value chain to be a resilient company. Reducing emissions from Ericsson’s supply chain and own activities. SOURCE: Ericsson.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These are climate change, circularity, water, energy, and sustainable supply chains, to name a few. Crawford said the company also procures supplies from areas with a low risk for corruption and human rights abuses while working with suppliers to further mitigate social and climate risks.

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3BL Media

JULY 6, 2022

Despite the massive disruptions that businesses are currently facing, climate change remains the most critical challenge that industries must jointly tackle. To achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C Unleash the Network Power for Decarbonization.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

The vast majority of international climate finance is now spent on transforming energy and transport systems, with less than 3% channeled towards land-use despite its potential to provide 30% or more of the mitigation needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. . Land System Emissions are Persistently Understated .

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? C Supplier Engagement Guide, we outline how to engage suppliers to take climate action. In light of the newly launched 1.5°C Read the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

Ericsson was an early supporter of the Paris Agreement and recognizes the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C, C, as described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Own activities previously included product transportation, this is now moved to supply chain emissions. They make up 0.4%

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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. C-aligned, ambitious, equitable, and social-justice centered.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The SCC is an outgrowth of the SEMI Sustainability Initiative , and is the first global, ecosystem-wide effort to advance the semiconductor industry’s response to the challenge of climate change. The SCC includes member companies from across the semiconductor value chain. Read more here: [link].

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Climate change is manifesting before our eyes with extreme weather events leading to serious damage to nature, property, and people. That has given rise to a whole range of human rights issues: both directly, as people are hurt by the changing climate, and indirectly, as people are impacted by climate solutions.

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Chris Hall

MAY 15, 2024

Priscillia Moulin, Senior Leader – North America Representative at Earthqualizer Foundation, which attempts to trace supply chain links to deforestation and works with local actors to prevent deforestation at source, reports scarce interest by investors in advice or collaboration.

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3BL Media

JULY 29, 2022

2021 was characterized by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, labour shortages, and geo-political and climate uncertainty. Received a “B” score on climate change and water security from CDP. 18% reduction in water intensity compared to 2018. 68% reduction in waste clippings compared to 2020.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The world is watching as tens of thousands of leaders gather for the 28 th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, from November 30 to December 12. The primary goal is to negotiate agreements that will limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Yet, can these ambitious goals truly be achieved?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. A statement provided by Shell welcomed signs that some form of new regulatory regime was on the way.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

If you thought the first two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviews on climate science made for bleak reading, then the third instalment will be the hardest yet to digest. . He is disappointed more has not been achieved since the Paris Agreement. . “In Supply chain challenge .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

COPs 27 and 15 can embed link between land use and climate change in policy and finance flows. It also plays an important role in regulating climate change. The importance of reversing deforestation, managing agricultural supply chains and preserving biodiversity in limiting global warming to the 1.5-degree

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Going Purpose:” Patagonia Owner Donates Entire Company to Fight Climate Change. Truck Builder Scania Sets 2030 Goal to Decarbonize Supply Chain. Capgemini Sets Goal to Reduce Emissions Across Value Chain by 90%. Assent Launches Supply Chain Sustainability Reporting Solution for Complex Manufacturers.

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ESG Today

JUNE 30, 2022

Nigel Topping, UN Climate Change High-Level Climate Champion, said: “This research is a wake-up call. Luiz Amaral, CEO of SBTi, said: “The impacts of climate change are increasingly devastating, and the forest, land and agriculture sector is one of the most affected – but it is also a significant source of emissions.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 20, 2021

The r ecent report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly outlines that climate change is widespread, intensifying, and ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities. In order to prevent extreme heatwaves, rising sea levels, droughts, and other effects of climate change, urgent action must be taken.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The report, and accompanying survey, seems to find that the current pace of renewable deployments is nowhere near sufficient to achieve Paris Agreement levels of ambition with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: At Qualcomm, we believe we can help address the environmental, social, and economic impacts of climate change by working together across all sectors of society. SOURCE: Qualcomm. Why did Qualcomm decide to commit to net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050? Why set interim goals? Why commit to Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

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ESG Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

Luxury brand Burberry announced today that its climate goals have been approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) as meeting the criteria to keep global warming to 1.5°C C in line with the Paris Agreement. C warming ambition, as required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Making a Bigger Commitment to Combat Climate Change. Addressing climate change and meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement demands change in how our world works and the way we use resources. For more information, see page 67. For more information, see page 49.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Ahead of COP28, over 125 businesses from across industries and regions call on national governments to address the primary cause of climate change: burning fossil fuels. To fulfil their commitments to the Paris Agreement, countries h ave no option but to move on phasing down and out fossil fuels.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. As we move further into 2023, it can take a lot of energy to think about energy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—the world is not on track to meet its climate goals. The latest National Climate Assessment found the U.S. has already experienced 25 climate disasters this year that each resulted in more than a billion dollars of damages, costing hundreds of lives and more than $73 billion total. Despite recent policy wins in the U.S.—such

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). This type of agreement also helps distribute the project risks, facilitating access to finance.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The IPR is a climate-focused policy forecasting body, commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment, aiming to prepare institutional investors for the portfolio risks and opportunities associated with an acceleration of policy responses to climate change. You can’t just build another couple of farms.

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