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Canada is falling behind in global race to attract sustainable investments: Guilbeault

Corporate Knights

The finance minister, in particular, has come under criticism for her slow response to recommendations that would establish a “transition taxonomy” – essentially, a menu of climate-friendly investments – as well as details of promised tax credits that would spur private funding for clean energy investments.

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Canadian pension funds are starting to embrace the green transition

Corporate Knights

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets.

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Take Five: Nature Takes New York

Chris Hall

Car crash – If we’re being charitable, it could be argued that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was practicing greenhushing rather than greenwashing, when he announced this week a relaxation of his government’s efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

100 billion green investment. Analysis conducted by UK100 and Siemens, shows that a £5bn investment by the Government could unlock £100bn of private sector investment toward meeting the Net Zero goals by 2050. homes every minute between now and 2050.[5].

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Group signals new era for wind energy as urgency builds towards COP26 in Glasgow

Envirotec Magazine

Wind power, both onshore and offshore, has expanded significantly in the last decades and is now a cost-competitive, clean energy powerhouse poised to be at the centre of the race to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion tonnes of carbon emissions – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.

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Electrification as an accelerator towards net zero

Sustainability Matters

Digital upgrades are essential to support new pricing and revenue models for electricity, certifying an organisation’s green investments. Global march towards net zero Without any doubt, the global march towards net zero carbon emission is gathering pace, as more countries commit to stringent targets and objectives.

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From Rhetoric to Practice

Chris Hall

Notwithstanding the concerns around benchmarks and passive instruments, ESG/SDG investing is experiencing a sustained mega trend in terms of capital being allocated to these types of investments. The United Nations estimates that getting to net zero carbon emissions will require investments of US$32 trillion in the next 10 years.