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Record Number of Negotiated Agreements Between Investors and Companies in 2022 Proxy Season

3BL Media

Negotiated withdrawals include several consumer goods companies agreeing to set science-based targets to reduce emissions. And they include nearly a dozen companies across industries committing to report on their climate lobbying and often on how their lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5

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Is a cleaner grid enough to help the U.S. meet its climate targets?

Corporate Knights

Even that limited progress on clean electricity is perhaps surprising, given that the most recent Earth Index dataset comes from well into the presidency of Donald Trump, who rejected the Paris Agreement and vowed to revitalize coal power. But the president wields limited direct influence over a decentralized power industry.

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