Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When you look at the oil industry’s efforts to decarbonize, the results are lacklustre. By our count in 2022 – seven years after the Paris Agreement – the vast majority of oil companies still earn less than 1% of their revenue from renewable sources. Other underperformers on our list are U.K.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

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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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Looking at Cooperative Approaches as a Market-Based Path Toward Net Zero. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). SOURCE: Tetra Tech.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Accelerating decarbonization requires not only innovation, but also advocating for policies that remove barriers and support adoption at scale,” said Scott Tew, vice president of Sustainability, Trane Technologies. As the window for limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Today, we launch the most most sophisticated picture to date of private sector progress, obstacles and opportunities for achieving   net zero. The report presents the pace of change in each sector, and identifies the barriers faced by businesses that are rapidly decarbonizing to meet their climate targets.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

According to Equinor CEO Anders Opedal, the agreement marks a “major milestone for the development of carbon capture, transport and storage,” viewed as a key tool for the decarbonization of heavy industries. From early 2025 we will be shipping the first tonnes of CO2 from the Netherlands to Norway.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

Historically, some 40% of the raw materials entering the site do so by freight ships. In the summer of 2018, these were scraping bottom; cargo traffic was reduced to a trickle, and ships could be only partially laden. You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In order to secure the rights of current and future generations, societies must transition toward total decarbonization by 2050. C, as specified by the Paris Agreement, and to ensure access to affordable, clean, and reliable energy to all, as specified by SDG 7.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The world is not currently on track to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Targeted action by sector and region This year’s COP28 in Dubai sees the culmination of the first-ever UNFCCC Global Stocktake, which assesses progress made since the Paris Agreement. This political momentum is welcome.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

This year's event built off the learning from the SDSN's Roadmap to 2050 A Manual for National to Decarbonize by Mid-Century report published in partnership with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). The event’s panels on the first day were focused on the decarbonization of the power, transport, industry, and buildings sectors.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects. Given the persistent technical problems still facing CCS, that may not be likely. those are the pieces that we still need to find.”

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To help every company seize the opportunities of the net-zero transition, the We Mean Business Coalition has launched a new guide, The 4 A’s of Climate Leadership. Elsewhere, we are seeing large orders of electric trucks from companies like Maersk, and Volvo Trucks even sourcing zero-emission steel for them.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. The first-ever mention of “transitioning away from fossil fuels” in COP final text was regarded as a major milestone on the path to net zero, even by those who acknowledged its multiple caveats.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

C as a “survival target” for average global warming, and the meeting recognized that the most technically achievable decarbonization options are also the most economically feasible. But there’s still time to take action if countries pick the right decarbonization options and scale up fast. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The five day online event brought together 74 global technical experts and world-leading scientists, engineers, and innovators from business, academia, and civil society to share knowledge and showcase solutions to maximize climate commitments in the wake of the Paris Agreement.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Restrictions, Brexit regulations, a ship stuck in the Suez Canal, extreme weather events and energy shortages impacted supply chains and prevented firms to meet their demand. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. As a result, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? This year, there has been much ado about zero. It’s becoming hard to read the green media, or even the mainstream media, without seeing new net-zero commitments from companies, governments, institutions and others. Now, net-zero is the flavor of the month. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . On Cities, Regions & the Built Environment day at COP26, the Race to Zero campaign announced a breakthrough in the real estate sector, with US$1.2

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