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AB: China's State-Owned Enterprises Hold Keys to Carbon Neutral

3BL Media

To gain insight into China’s decarbonization efforts, AllianceBernstein (AB) has partnered with the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University in a workshop program entitled The Making of a Green Giant: Decarbonization with Chinese Characteristics. Case Study: Stranded Assets and the Economics of a Chinese Power Plant.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

This year, Corporate Knights set out to identify global companies that have decarbonized faster than their peers while simultaneously increasing revenue. 17 Republic Services Inc Waste 13,862,083 2,200,930 -0.14 Our researchers evaluated the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of more than 6,500 publicly traded companies.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But there’s still time to take action if countries pick the right decarbonization options and scale up fast.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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G7: Go all in for clean energy to cut family bills, create jobs and drive economic growth

We Mean Business Coalition

Positive signs came out of the G7 climate and energy ministers’ meeting in May: commitments to end international fossil fuel financing and phase out coal on the pathway towards decarbonized power systems by 2035. Instead, such investments will leave companies and economies with costly stranded assets in the years ahead.

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Advancing Sustainability Innovation at VMware

3BL Media

In the first installment of this blog series, “ Accelerating Decarbonization of the World’s Digital Infrastructure ,” I defined and explained why the next frontier for innovation is sustainable computing. We have an enormous opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of digital infrastructure through our public-cloud partner ecosystem.