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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. Rebranded as Beyond Petroleum in 2001, the company went on to run a campaign, devised by Ogilvy & Mather, that introduced the notion of the “carbon footprint” (not yet in common parlance) and encouraged individuals to reduce their own, even providing a calculator on its website for the purpose.

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Podcast: Beyond the Scope of Climate Pledges

3BL Media

Sumit, Jeannie, and Vincent discuss the actual impact of climate pledges post-COP26, the means to accelerate the energy transition, and how private-public partnerships are playing a key role in it. Collective climate action. Where to find Beyond the Scope.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

At the COP26 climate conference in November, the United Nations identified hydrogen as the “backbone” of our clean energy future. The company was founded in 2001 to better match buildings’ electricity needs with the varying voltages coming from the power company. Alberta Innovates is the launch partner for the Future 50. Next Hydrogen.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Meadows died too young in 2001, but her work has grown increasingly more important, as it was focused on systems change to avert environmental collapse.

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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 It also undermines the COP26 Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use by failing to tackle much of the UK’s deforestation footprint abroad, according to analysis by NGO Global Witness. . C by 2050. .

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO? What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation? emissions, says Global Forest Watch (GFW), an online forest monitoring platform.