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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. These initiatives mandate corporations’ use of carbon removal to address remaining emissions in their climate target year and to contribute to global decarbonization on their path to net zero.

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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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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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Roadmap to 2050: Power, Industry, Transport and Buildings

Sustainable Development Network

New Report Provides Manual for Countries to Decarbonize their Power, Industry, Transport and Buildings Sectors by Mid-Century The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018 Report stated, “Limiting global warming to 1.5°C of the Paris Agreement. The report can be downloaded at Roadmap2050.report.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Decarbonization of U.S. Corporate decarbonization commitments grew.

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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

The United Nations’ Paris Agreement charts the international community’s plan for limiting the impact of climate change. For more on terminology denkstatt explains climate neutral, carbon neutral, GHG neutral and net zero in this two page download and article. Its goal is to be climate neutral—not just carbon neutral—by 2050.

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Global 100 companies prove sustainability is good for business

Corporate Knights

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. In 2021, 60 of the Global 100 companies signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative, aligning their emissions reductions with the requirements of the Paris Agreement.

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