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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

3BL Media

Coal contributes 46% of global carbon dioxide emissions and accounts for nearly three-fourths of GHG emissions from electricity production. . So how do governments plan to close the distance between their weak 2030 commitments and their net-zero ambitions? It’s hard to say. But labels aren’t enough.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) percent of its GDP. Skeptics have criticized its commitment for not going far enough. .