Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2022

Financial firms have pledged that more than US$130 trillion of assets will be net-zero by 2050. And 130 countries have also promised to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, including all the G7 countries and South Africa. What is the right speed?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has warned that carbon-intensive companies are not progressing fast enough to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, supporting the rationale for its revised engagement strategy.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Forum will bring together leaders across the private and public sectors to recognize progress made on transition finance and accelerate further action in support of a global net-zero economic transition. The event will be held from 3:30pm ET at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. A statement provided by Shell welcomed signs that some form of new regulatory regime was on the way.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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3BL Media

MAY 24, 2022

It outlines how, despite greater corporate climate disclosure and commitments to greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, net zero targets and other climate-related goals, many companies fail to adequately disclose sufficient information to investors on how they intend to achieve said ambitions.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

As in the rest of the private sector, where at least 20% of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, many leading investors are also focused on reducing carbon emissions. Going Beyond Net Zero Emissions. Paris Agreement alignment is a holistic process.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has launched the Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining to provide its signatories and investors with a “transparent, systematic, and evidence-backed” engagement tool. Gardiner said that current volumes of mined coal are “well above ” what is needed in a net zero world.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scott Tew, VP Sustainability: With the call to triple renewables deployment and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels, Dubai may be the most significant COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Is the agreement perfect? We are living through the fastest and most systemic overhaul of the global economy in human history.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

The letter makes a series of key demands, including calling on the bank to aligns its climate policy with the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to 1.5°C, C, and to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 48% by 2030, on a 2019 basis.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 7, 2023

C objective of the Paris Agreement and supported the accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels , coupled with a rapid scaling up of clean energy. A critical issue right now is how we safeguard the freedom of financial institutions to invest in the companies planning for the net zero future. and beyond. C pathways.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Charlotta Dawidowski Sydstrand , Head of ESG at AP7, explains how universal owner s can exert collaborative pressure to drive sustainable outcomes in the global economy. This, says Sydstrand, creates a “ripple effect” in the global economy.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

c) of the Paris Agreement, seems sensible – why would we collectively pursue investments that harm people and the planet? The Paris Agreement stimulated a reckoning to align public and private finance with net zero and climate resilience. But the reality of Article 2.1(c) c) is more complex.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The COP28 decision text, released Wednesday morning, included language about “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems” and “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner so as to achieve net zero by, or before, or around 2050 in keeping with the science”.The

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

UK asset owner now 10 years ahead of net zero target; switches climate engagement focus to auto sector. The CEPB has significantly cut back on exposures to “companies that are not aligning to the transition” to a low-carbon global energy system. On the road to net zero.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. It underscores the resilience of the Paris Agreement and the power of multilateralism to achieve our shared aims.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Keeping global warming to below 1.5C This will set them on course to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Without nature acting as a carbon sink, global temperatures would already have risen more than 1.5C In addition, nature’s contribution to the global economy could be worth $125 trillion annually.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Sphera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To decarbonize the global economy in alignment with the goals established by the Paris Agreement, all economic actors in the real economy need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sufficiently to align with required emissions pathways. Celsius with no or limited overshoot.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In the race to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, many companies are jeopardising success by leaving workers and communities behind. The decarbonisation of our global economy is most likely to succeed in the short timeframe required if those most affected by the transition are brought on the journey.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . C within reach, and to transition to a net-zero global economy by 2050 at the latest. These measures are supported by 778 businesses representing US$2.7 Finalize the rules on Article 6.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than one per cent, off projected global emissions in 2030. This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. NDCs submitted this year take only 0.5 C over the century. C increase, so there is hope.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Sheldrake says that companies need to take responsibility for how carbon credits factor into their transition plans to ensure that their use accelerates climate actions and does not delay or displace emissions reductions via the decarbonisation of the global economy. The talks have been deferred to this year’s COP28. C pathway.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Decarbonizing the global economy means lessening our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing dramatically our use of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Despite the precariousness of the pathway to net zero, COP26 generated a renewed sense of urgency and optimism as to how to support emerging markets and deal with heavy greenhouse gas emitters. This was thanks partly to strong representation from the investment industry, and the private sector more broadly.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Fortunately, the ‘ambition mechanism’ from the Paris Agreement — the process it establishes to periodically review countries’ progress toward meeting their commitments to address climate change, and to ratchet up their ambition over time — worked. It should also help put aviation on a flightpath to net zero by 2050.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2023

The cost of climate change is rising at an alarming pace, with ripple effects being felt across communities and the global economy. More frequent and extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are disrupting supply chains, displacing people from their homes and causing disaster response and recovery costs to skyrocket.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Climate retreat – This week, HSBC Asset Management was called the “ only true steward of the global economy ” by Follow This (Founder? Insert his title here) Mark van Baal, after he announced that it was the only large UK investor still voting for change across all oil majors.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy. Accelerating the build-out of hydrogen infrastructure will radically improve national and corporate abilities to meet net zero and decarbonisation targets.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The 2021 Progress Report, ‘ Scaling Urgent Corporate Climate Action Worldwide ’, found that companies committed to cut emissions in line with climate science now represent US$38 trillion of the global economy, more than one-third of global market capitalisation (up from 20% in 2020).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

Airports and the aviation industry are central to the growth of global economies, connecting markets, communities and people across the world. of global carbon emissions being produced, ESG must become a central tenet of the aviation industry if growth is to continue. However, with circa 2.5% MtCO2e by 2050.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. As a result, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. The initiative set guidelines and established a verification process to increase the credibility of corporate net-zero targets. Conclusions.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2024

At a wider, global scale Aviva Investors believes climate t ransition planning – which the UK is set to mandate reporting on – across the whole global economy can provide a series of positive self-reinforcing actions and information flows. Current scenario models are typically long term.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Creon Butler, Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme at think tank Chatham House, made a similar warning of a “probable sharp adjustment” this month , saying that “financial markets did not yet reflect climate risk” despite the clear severe economic and financial consequences of climate change.

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