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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

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times higher than the UK's own greenhouse gas emissions (excluding aviation and shipping). South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023. They can also divest from high-emitting industries such as thermal coal production.

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TotalEnergies Acquires Carbon Capture Business from Talos Energy for $148 Million

ESG Today

TotalEnergies has set a climate goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and the company said that its focus is first to avoid emissions, and then to reduce them asset by asset, implementing the best available technologies, and to develop industrial projects for carbon storage to address residual emissions.

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LGIM Sets Climate, Biodiversity & Lobbying Expectations for “Dial Mover” Companies

ESG Today

In additions to significantly growing its dial-movers list from 60 companies to 105, the expectations for those companies has been expanded to incorporate biodiversity risk and climate lobbying, in addition to net zero target setting and climate-related disclosure. C scenario. C scenario.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. Tankers at anchor in the Houston Ship Channel started bumping into each other, but the oil kept flowing. . Is that possible? What happened? It turns out it’s not easy to stop.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Unlike other approaches to monitoring emissions, it plans to attribute emissions to specific sources, whether these be individual factories, ships, power plants or a range of other facilities and all its data will be placed in the public domain. Sustainable investments should grow as divestment from carbon-intensive industries intensifies.

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Take Five: The Heat is on

Chris Hall

This week, the Anglican church’s £3 billion AuM pension scheme announced it was quitting one of the two net zero groupings to which it belongs to better focus efforts to decarbonise its investment portfolio. Regulating the raters – Regulation of the ESG ratings sector has taken a number of steps forward recently.