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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. RELATED Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29? As former U.S. Now there are growing calls to wrest control back. Is it perfect?

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

GreenBiz

Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy. Should it happen within a matter of months as proponents hope, its effects will spread around the world to dramatic effect.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

The solid waste industry accounts for 5% of global greenhouse emissions, which, as Franklin-Wallis notes is more than the shipping and aviation industries combined. Changing consumer behavior will require a crackdown on greenwashing, Franklin-Wallis said.

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Teck needs to figure out how to transition out of the coal business

Corporate Knights

The coal mines make Teck the second-largest ship-based exporter of metallurgical coal in the world. The majority of the coal is shipped from B.C. The field is made up of four sprawling open-pit mines producing metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel. In 2022, Teck produced 21.5 billion in revenue.

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Report: Many global companies’ net-zero pledges fail the smell test

Corporate Knights

In all, the researchers found that only one company (Danish shipping company Maersk) out of 25 had a net-zero pledge of “reasonable integrity.” Three companies were credited with “moderate integrity”: Apple, Sony and Vodafone.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

This week in ESG news: Germany’s €50 billion industrial decarbonization plan; U.S.

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Commission faces legal challenge over taxonomy criteria for aviation, shipping

Environmental Finance

The European Commission faces a legal challenge of its inclusion of aviation and shipping criteria in its sustainability taxonomy, after NGOs accused it of greenwashing.