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A guide to modern sustainability jargon

Sustainability Matters

From frequently misunderstood terms, such as carbon neutral, embodied carbon and sequestration, through to defining three colours of hydrogen, the glossary is a guide to the jargon that defines net zero carbon and ESG in both policy and practice. This is a new language for business and for policymakers.

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Northern Trust's Path Forward

3BL Media

Alignment through governance allows us to properly plan to mitigate risks and maximize opportunities for value creation for all of our stakeholders. Likewise, with increasing climate events around the world, we are actively managing our business operations toward net zero carbon, achieving carbon neutrality for the first time in 2022.

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Illuminating Possibility: Duke Energy and Ford Motor Company Plan To Use F-150 Lightning Electric Trucks To Help Power the Grid

3BL Media

It’s part of our commitment to significantly expand cleaner energy and achieve net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050.”. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions.

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The JUST Report: Should CEO Pay Be Tied To Stakeholder Value Creation?

Just Capital

But what if CEO and senior executive pay was tied more explicitly to total stakeholder value creation? On environmental and climate issues, it focuses intensively on the environmental impact of its products, with a goal to create products with Net-Zero carbon impact by 2030.

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This Week’s Fund News: DWS Launches ESG Fund for Women, by Women

Chris Hall

C target for limiting global warming, alongside commitments to build net zero carbon portfolios. This new Environmental Impact Fund facilitates a more targeted focus on environmental and zero carbon solutions,” said George Latham, WHEB’s Managing Partner.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In Voluntary carbon offset markets, offsets are used at the companies discretion, and the market size in 2021 is expected to hit $1 billion. In VCM, companies or individuals take responsibility to trade carbon credits to offset their emissions to meet net-zero, carbon-neutral, or other emission reduction targets.