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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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Understanding emission sources in your portfolio For some organisations, scope 3 emissions may be easy to calculate, understand and reduce, such as those deriving from business flights and waste. 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.

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This scrappy Australian recycling pioneer is the most sustainable corporation of 2024

Corporate Knights

The sector, moreover, isn’t on track to achieve net-zero targets, despite investments in new forms of low-carbon energy for steel plants. For example, Sims finally divested itself of part of its municipal recycling business – a large blue-box operation in New York City. Photo courtesy of Sims Ltd. In 2022, a B.C.-based

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Million to Turn Landfill Waste into Renewable Biofuels ESG Investing Texas Pulls $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG Investing BlackRock Calls Texas Decision to Divest $8.5 Renewables Developer Avantus Renovare Raising $7.5

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CalSTRS Targets Company Directors on Social, Climate Record

Chris Hall

CalSTRS’ commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner has heightened the asset owner’s scrutiny of investee companies’ decarbonisation targets and performance. If engagement and voting fails to promote positive change amongst investee companies, NBIM has demonstrated its willingness to divest.

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The ESG Interview: Learn from the Past, Look to the Future

Chris Hall

This January marked the three-year anniversary of the Brumadinho Dam disaster in which 272 people lost their lives and millions of tonnes of toxic waste flooded local villages, becoming Brazil’s worst ever industrial disaster. Disputing divestment. And McMurdo’s caution about divestment is not limited to the energy sectors.

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The “Ripple Effect” of Universal Ownership

Chris Hall

trillion in AuM that have committed to transitioning their investment to achieve net zero portfolio GHG emissions by 2050 and drawing on the Net Zero Investment Framework to deliver on that commitment.