Corporate Knights

AUGUST 10, 2022

In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. When it comes to the airline industry, sustainable aviation fuel may be its ticket to a low-carbon future. With the sector contributing 2.8%

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. These have already been used in Europe and in some other parts of the UK.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

ASCOR is backed by a coalition representing US$5 trillion AUM, including the UN Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, investor network Ceres, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment and Sura Asset Management.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As well as initiatives in France and Colombia, the report cites the use of a budget tagging tool in the UK, which calculated that 95% of its autumn 2021 budget was nature-neutral. . Banks, investors and companies that have made ‘net zero’ or ‘deforestation-free’ commitments need to invest, it said. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Although ongoing science-based exploration of the underpinnings of the VCMs is vital, businesses are making decisions on their role in net zero transition strategies today.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

At a slightly larger scale, Nike invites customers to follow its journey, step by step, towards net-zero emissions. The Care Tag saved unimaginable amounts of energy to heat water. Ecoalf reminds the wearer with a subtle stamp on the shoes and T-shirts, "Because There Is No Planet B.". Evocative, smart, effective.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The current lack of [standardisation] poses a significant cost to asset owners and limits their ability to incorporate these issues into investment decision-making,” says the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), a group of 74 institutional investors with US$10.6 trillion in assets. .

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Sustainable Round Table

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The mechanism of choice to ensure that the market value of an EAC is commensurate with the abatement costs is the Purchaser Caused tag for EACs, which would certify that a company has entered into a long-term monetary agreement to directly contribute to (and denote) the creation of new renewable energy capacity through a VPPA or other mechanism.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) , launched in 2021 in the EU, is a non-financial reporting directive to introduce even more detailed reporting requirements for large companies, including an obligation for companies to digitally tag reported information.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Continuing to put a fake renewable like biomass energy at the heart of their net zero plans, will undermine any global deal promising to save nature by 2030. Bioenergy doesn’t just have a big environmental price tag – it’s an incredibly expensive technology that gets billions in government subsidies every year.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

The year started optimistically, fresh off the bold and ambitious agreement in November 2021 that established the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Index fund managers slow-walked on net-zero. HSBC, European banks lead on net-zero. Canadian and U.S. Here are some reasons for cautious optimism.

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Jon Hale

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: As big as the public sector effort is across all our countries, the $100-trillion plus price tag to address climate change globally is far bigger. The asset manager portion of the alliance, called the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, has 220 signatories with $57 trillion in assets under management.

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