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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Beyond 2030, BCG aspires to be "climate positive" — by removing more carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere on an ongoing basis than it actually emits through its own activities. It previously committed to purchasing 100 percent renewable energy and will use energy-efficiency measures to fill the gap.

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Burberry Steps Out With New £300m Sustainability Loan

3BL Media

Burberry has strengthened its resolve to be climate positive by 2040 by refinancing a credit facility to a £300m Sustainability Linked Loan. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C pathway laid out in the Paris Agreement.

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Sport Positive Summit Brings Together Sports Organisations To Discuss Action and Ambition on Climate Change, and Calls for Cooperation

3BL Media

In addressing the climate crisis, everyone has a role to play, and the IOC has taken the lead within the Olympic Movement. In line with the Paris Agreement , the IOC has committed to reducing its direct and indirect emissions by 50 per cent by 2030. From 2030, all Olympic Games are required to be climate positive.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

COP28 reminded investors of the difficulties involved in reaching inter-governmental consensus on intensifying climate action. C and to develop a “whole-of-government approach” to the transition of the real economy to net zero. C future, Gosling acknowledges there is scope for climate-positive action by asset owners and managers.

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New Climate Rules and Guidance for UK Pensions

Chris Hall

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. “We Paris alignment. degrees Celsius.

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Ten Steps to Create a Successful Decarbonization Roadmap

3BL Media

November’s COP26 conference saw several countries make national commitments to fight climate change: More than 130 countries pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and the destruction of land by 2030, and more than 100 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge to collectively cut emissions by 30 percent before this decade comes to a close.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

The IPCC, the UN’s climate research body, recently found that the world is currently on track for temperature increases more than double the 1.5°C C goal set in the Paris Agreement. Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change. Intuit’s TurboTax app interface.

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