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Allianz Launches Dashboard Tracking Net Zero Transition Progress and Requirements

ESG Today

Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist at Allianz, said: “After the Paris Agreement, the thinking was that the world needed a simple Google Maps-like tool to orient us on reducing greenhouse gases (GHG). We take that seriously and are supporting our stakeholders as best as possible in their efforts to achieve their Net Zero targets.

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Understanding the Carbon Removals Landscape: Creating Clarity in an Opaque Market

GreenBiz

Lasting mitigation of carbon is critical for keeping emissions within the temperature goals set in the Paris Agreement. Backed by the IPCC, Science Based Target Initiative and the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign, carbon removals pose a huge opportunity to meet the crucial 1.5 degree or less global warming trajectory.

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Integrity Matters: Net Zero Commitments by Businesses, Financial Institutions, Cities, and Regions

Environmental News Bits

Download the document. In the years after the call for a balance between sinks and sources of emissions in the Paris Agreement became the concept of “ net zero”, thousands of cities, regions, companies and financiers formed a voluntary groundswell and swung behind the concept.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

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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Joint statement on UNFCCC work programme on just transition pathways

We Mean Business Coalition

This emphasizes that people-centered climate action is essential to ensure social cohesion and increase the societal buy-in required for an accelerated and sustainable transition to a net-zero economy — within planetary boundaries and at a pace aligned with science.

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Joint statement: Carbon markets must be a transparent, high integrity part of broader corporate climate action

We Mean Business Coalition

Download: Carbon markets must be a transparent, high integrity part of broader corporate climate action (pdf) The recent synthesis report from the Global Stocktake is a stark reminder: the world continues to veer dangerously off course from the long-term objectives outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

Climate neutrality is the concept of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by balancing the emissions human sources release into the Earth’s atmosphere with the amount the planet naturally absorbs in emission “sinks,” like forests and oceans, via a process called sequestration. Your business can help. It matters to stakeholders.