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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

Although we’ve promised to introduce a cap on energy sector emissions, this cap will not address Scope 3 emissions (those up and down a company’s supply chain), which account for around 88% of total emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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The Largest U.S. Pension Fund Just Rolled Out a Climate Transition Plan Focused on Risk and Opportunity

3BL Media

They’re about addressing the major risks that financial markets and companies face as a result of the changing climate—the supply chain disruptions, the diminished worker productivity, the damage to corporate infrastructure and the communities businesses operate in. Risks that continue to escalate. This year, a record $1.8

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The Glasgow Climate Pact for business: ambition, action and collaboration.

We Mean Business Coalition

For business, investments in fossil fuels are now far riskier because the market expects them to become stranded assets in the foreseeable future. This interdependence will help drive ambition as businesses feel the pressure to decarbonize to help their suppliers and customers meet their own emission reduction targets.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

trillion in real estate assets under management now committed to halving emissions by 2030, along with 20% of architects and engineers. . And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities.

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