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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

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 New guidance and tools were launched to further support companies on the path to decarbonization. C-aligned science-based targets. In fact, this has been a COP of action.

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B Lab Forms New Partnerships to Help Scale Credible Business Transitions to Net Zero

B the Change

including many following the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?—?has We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers, or any form of greenwashing.” has also increased leverage for companies’ climate transition plans. So h ow can B Lab play its role in this race against time?

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. Two events will increase corporate Net-zero programs credibility and separate climate action from pure greenwashing: The launch of the first science-based Net-Zero standard by SBTi.

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What Net-Zero companies are and How to start the journey

Carlos Sanchez

Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. A final net-zero framework, including target-setting guidance and target validation criteria, will be released on the 28th of October 2021 before COP26.

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Progress at last on climate finance at COP27

Corporate Knights

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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Russia’s War From a Climate Perspective

Richard Matthews

The consistent growth of clean energy is attributable to solid positioning , that includes its capacity to decarbonizing energy and deleverage tyrants. At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035. Ukraine delivered more than promises.