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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

In the first episode of the podcast series, host, Sumit Bose , journalist, broadcaster, and founder of future Net Zero , is joined by policy expert, Jeannie Salo , USA Government Relations SVP, and sustainability expert, Vincent Petit , Head of the Schneider ElectricTM Sustainability Research Institute.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

Instead, they see our net-zero targets slipping away and they feel betrayed. The list’s sheer variety confirms climate experts’ contention that net-zero will create infinite opportunities for entrepreneurs and inventors with vision, grit and persistence. This,” says the company, “is how we take the planet to net zero.”.

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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.

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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 As a growing number of asset owners commit to transitioning their investments to net zero, they are becoming increasingly aware of how deforestation threatens the realisation of their decarbonisation targets. . “We

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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.