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Understanding the Carbon Removals Landscape: Creating Clarity in an Opaque Market

GreenBiz

Lasting mitigation of carbon is critical for keeping emissions within the temperature goals set in the Paris Agreement. Backed by the IPCC, Science Based Target Initiative and the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign, carbon removals pose a huge opportunity to meet the crucial 1.5 degree or less global warming trajectory.

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Ten Steps to Create a Successful Decarbonization Roadmap

3BL Media

Last year saw significant activity as governments, utilities, businesses and other entities zoned in on mitigating climate change by setting aggressive decarbonization goals in an effort to lower carbon emissions. Look for easy-to-decarbonize areas of your operations where you can make a difference right away. Accept uncertainty.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

If you’re a company interested in climate change, zero might be the most important number. Net zero” is the lens many businesses are using to address their climate impacts. As of October 2022, more than 8,000 companies globally have made commitments to net zero under the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign.

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Joint statement: Carbon markets must be a transparent, high integrity part of broader corporate climate action

We Mean Business Coalition

Download: Carbon markets must be a transparent, high integrity part of broader corporate climate action (pdf) The recent synthesis report from the Global Stocktake is a stark reminder: the world continues to veer dangerously off course from the long-term objectives outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

Climate neutrality is the concept of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by balancing the emissions human sources release into the Earth’s atmosphere with the amount the planet naturally absorbs in emission “sinks,” like forests and oceans, via a process called sequestration. Your business can help. It matters to stakeholders.

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Global 100 companies prove sustainability is good for business

Corporate Knights

Approximately 90% of countries are now covered by some kind of net-zero target, as are hundreds of the largest publicly traded companies. As the “decade of action” on decarbonizing the economy kicks off in earnest, the most sustainable companies are more productive in terms of both carbon and energy. Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

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Is a cleaner grid enough to help the U.S. meet its climate targets?

Corporate Knights

Even that limited progress on clean electricity is perhaps surprising, given that the most recent Earth Index dataset comes from well into the presidency of Donald Trump, who rejected the Paris Agreement and vowed to revitalize coal power. Nearly every major utility company pledged to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century.

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