ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. BlackRock Launches Website to Address Energy Boycott Claims. Energy Transition. GM Extends All-Electric Strategy to Homes, Businesses with New Energy Management Division.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In honor of its 110 th anniversary, the state’s largest and oldest electric provider is donating more than half a million dollars as part of its “Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures Campaign” to six partner nonprofits to help build strong communities across its 63-county service territory for a total of $660,000.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The good news is many of the world’s largest companies are already stepping up their ambition. Just this month, companies including PayPal, Walmart, Ford and Facebook have increased their level of climate commitment, announcing bold strategies to accelerate the zero-carbon transition. Companies are stepping up.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

Instead, we should treat the news as an alarm ringing loudly, telling us what we need to do: make good on what was agreed at COP28 and tackle the main source of planet-warming emissions, burning fossil fuels. Through collaboration, ingenuity and courage, we can accelerate the energy transition in 2024.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis. But with 43% decline in emissions required by 2030 to stop global temperatures rising above 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news. The former U.K.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” Energy use accounts for about three-quarters of the greenhouse gas emissions produced in the EU.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

Bella Landymore, Joint Interim CEO, Impact Investing Institute, and Brendan Curran, Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, explain how the Transition Plan Taskforce is supporting UK businesses to draw up fair and inclusive transition plans.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 24, 2023

SDSN USA looks back at the ways in which the network has contributed to the advancement of the 2030 agenda in the US, by localizing efforts towards a clean energy transition, revealing inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting zero hunger, collaborating for transformative education, and much more. Authors include Rev.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This month sees the biggest Veganuary campaign to date as more people embrace healthier lifestyles and want to help fight against climate change by lowering their carbon footprint. Whether you’re challenging yourself to learn new recipes, try new foods, or just generally eat a bit healthier, it’s a great way to start the year off”.?.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Analysis by Sage Energy Consulting estimates the value of California solar could drop 40-80% under the proposed policy change. CPUC is expected to release the 'Net Energy Metering 3.0' The transition from NEM 2.0 The debate over net metering policy is not new, and it extends beyond California. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This week, Mark Carney made the case for a faster transition to renewable energy in the face of inflationary and geopolitical headwinds, calling for “a sustainable revolution on the scale of the Industrial revolution and at the pace of the digital transformation”. As Carney noted, “there is no energy security without sustainability”.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 11, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with John Romankiewicz, Senior Analyst for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Romankiewicz and the Sierra Club released a report in January scoring utilities on their plans to transition from fossil fuels to clean power. We’re Way Beyond Coal.

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2024

Originally published on Illumina News Center Inside a lab that is off-limits to most employees, Staff Engineer Allie Duchnak coordinates hundreds of details for highly confidential projects. At the same time, she and her undergrad teammates founded a startup, which led her to transition from nanoengineering to bioengineering and biology.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. by Kathiann M. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Kowalski, Energy News Network. Energy Harbor’s announced closing of the Sammis plant means solar projects in Ohio’s regulatory pipeline already exceed the coal power that will remain after 2028. The Energy Information Administration’s latest annual coal report , released on Oct. By Kathiann M. It’s already happening.”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Emma Johnson, Partner at law firm Ashurst, explains the implications of European states’ planned withdrawal for energy investors. to limit fossil fuel production and energy generation) and thus inhibit the transition to net zero. Implications for investors. Withdrawal from the ECT takes effect one year after notification.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2023

It’s crucial that insurers, as one of the cornerstones of the finance sector, are supporting the global transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by setting ambitious decarbonisation targets and following through. This will be quite the undertaking.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The regulator suggested the current SFDR framework could be improved by discarding the current Article 8/Article 9 distinction and replacing them with three categories – transition, sustainable, and sustainable impact. The label will also require a transition plan aligned with the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A complex web of support measures is slowing the transition to renewables, but tools are available to dismantle wasteful and inefficient policies. In countries hard hit by volatility in the global energy markets, governments appear to be going in the opposite direction, unveiling new schemes to protect consumers from rising fuel bills.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The good news is that guidance, service providers, and communities of practice are increasingly available. But investments in nature must be part of their overall climate transition plan. It has never been easier for companies to perform due diligence on the carbon credits available.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

And I’m not even talking about the onrush of net-zero commitments by companies, government and others, although they seem to be happening at an almost-daily clip — so much so that they are no longer news. I’m talking about markets, plain and simple. Last week was one of those moments. Carrots and sticks. First, the sticks. Obviously, climate.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Broadcast and streamed around the world on YouTube, Twitter, ABC, ABC News Live, Amazon Music, Apple Music & the Apple TV app, iHeartRadio, Hulu, FX, Veeps, Albavision, Canal+, Bis, Nine Network, SABC, TimesLive, TV3, Twitch and the Global Citizen app. billion in commitments to end extreme poverty NOW. The private sector.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The ripple effects of Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have sent food and energy prices soaring to record highs, while unprecedented climate disasters are fueling widespread and devastating disruptions with historic levels of rain, heat, drought, fires and storms impacting almost every corner of the world.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 27, 2021

To some, this may sound like good news. More recently, some of the world’s largest carbon emitters, such as traditional energy companies, have tried rebranding themselves as environmental champions. Where Did It Come From? Unfortunately, Chevron wasn’t the only company making outrageous claims.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. . While the dystopic headlines made me temporally get rid of my news apps, I now truly believe we can seize this global crisis as a tremendous opportunity. Willemijn Brouwer (2018).

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. This is apparent in daily news reports, which indicate that our societies generate both new and old problems at a faster rate than we can ever hope to solve them.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Automative industry’s links to oil and gas lobbying come under scrutiny, as misleading reports about EVs risk slowing down the low-carbon transition. The director of transport decarbonisation at the UK Department for Transport told the Committee that there was a “concerted campaign of misinformation” about EVs.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. Energy Transition. BlackRock Acquires U.S.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Here are the signals of change towards… A just transition from fossil fuels to clean solutions As we finalize this newsletter, the European Commission is set to propose a 2040 climate target. Upon completion, the park will supply 30 GW of clean energy annually, enough to power 18 million Indian homes.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

by Elizabeth Outzs, Energy News Network. Duke Energy’s effort to expand a popular energy-efficiency program to its entire North Carolina service area is drawing stiff opposition from a surprising quarter: Duke Energy. . Not productive for either industry’. We need to get along’.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act and the Canadian logistics company embarking on a $1 billion vehicle fleet electrification. German energy giant E.ON Interested in joining We Mean Business Coalition at Ceres Global in NYC next week? million homes. The country added 2.5

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Then in 2015, the Los Angeles Times, Inside Climate News, and the Columbia Journalism School blew the case open by tracing the crime link to ExxonMobil, then the world’s largest oil company. News outlets, especially in the United States, swallowed and regurgitated those lies to an unsuspecting public.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JANUARY 23, 2024

The global agreement achieved at COP28 last month – to transition away from fossil fuels in line with science, alongside a tripling of renewable capacity and doubling of energy efficiency needs – to turn into investment, policies and laws.

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