Corporate Knights

JULY 29, 2022

With Canada lagging far behind Europe and the United Kingdom in tackling carbon pollution from aviation, the country’s upcoming 10-year climate plan for the sector must be developed with public input and enforce a 30% emissions reduction target by 2030, climate advocates say.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Net Zero Advisory Body (NZAB) – a group appointed by Guilbeault to help the government find a credible path to net-zero – is proposing that Ottawa set a 2035 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 50% and 55% below 2005 levels, a 10% increase from the current federal target for 2030.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JULY 11, 2024

Forests have been embraced as a natural climate solution, due to their ability to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, locking it up in their trunks, branches, leaves, and roots. But a new study confirms widespread doubts about the potential for most forests in the Western US to help curb climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Blue Zone events: WATER RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. This SVA framework, designed to evaluate the effects of climate change on water resources—from supply chains to distribution networks—has been applied in over 800 locations globally.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 3, 2024

Total emissions of 708 million tonnes in 2022 exceeded the 2020 total of 672 megatonnes, but still put Canada’s climate pollution “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) said in a release. lower than in 2005, the base year used to measure national progress.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 16, 2022

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2022

Offsetting was popularized by the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005. At the same 2005 UN climate summit in which offsetting was enacted, the government of Papua New Guinea put forward the first-ever proposal to store additional carbon by protecting exceptionally biodiverse and carbon-rich forests.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2023

If passed, the bill would also adopt new GHG targets for the state that would slash emissions by 65% (of 2005 levels) by 2035 and 100% by 2050. billion by not divesting from fossil fuels appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Then the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) turned my dreams upside down and forced my family to flee our home. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 21 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a young boy, I never dreamed of pursuing a career in medicine.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 4, 2024

As climate change moves to the forefront of today’s issues, one thing is clear: Our linear economy isn’t working. Since early 2005, over 130 million kg of recycled plastics went into our products [4], with closed-loop post-consumer recycled (CL-PCR) content incorporated in nearly 300 Lenovo devices[5].

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2022

Ottawa is updating its climate plan to align with the target set last year of reducing emissions by 40% to 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels and achieving net-zero by 2050. . Under legislation passed last year, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is required to release a new plan by the end of March.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

India’s first NDC was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, with goals to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources, and create additional carbon sink of 2.5

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ESG Today

MAY 16, 2024

For the report, the 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, Deloitte surveyed more than 22,800 Gen Z (those born between 1995 – 2005) and millennial (born 1983 – 1994) respondents from 44 countries across North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

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John Englart

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Victorian Labor Premier, Dan Andrews, and Climate Change Minister Lily D'Ambrosio, have announced the State's 2035 emissions reduction target, new renewable energy targets and re-establishment of a government Owned electricity supplier for the market. It places Victoria as globally.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

The report points to the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero alliance as indicative of the industry’s new-found commitment to tackling climate change. For one thing, it would not align with Canada’s Paris Agreement commitment to reduce GHGs by between 40 and 45% by 2030 from 2005 levels.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 17, 2022

The year was 2005, and Samsø had been chosen by the Danish government as a showcase for its emerging expertise in renewable energy and other emission-cutting efforts. It would become the world’s first “renewable energy island,” completely free of fossil fuels. That was the promise.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

president will be taking aim at legislation that resulted in nearly US$300 billion in private-sector investments in clean energy, battery manufacturing and clean power generation, most business leaders recognize that concerns about a worsening climate crisis will grow regardless of shifting political winds. While the new U.S.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 22, 2024

Everything about the city now has to [be seen through] this lens – what about climate change?” Halifax Regional Municipality last year imposed a climate change tax as a pillar of its broader sustainability strategy, dubbed HalifACT. “At she said in 2020.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

When we launched the Global 100 in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea. When we launched this ranking in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea. Toby Heap, co-founder and CEO, Corporate Knights The increase in sustainable investment is a welcome sign that companies are changing course.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The 27th UN climate summit, COP27, which got underway in Egypt on Sunday, seems to have been pre-ordained as a modest contribution to the increasingly fraught fight against climate change. . The retrofit economy needs to be seen as a nation-building-type effort over the next 20 years,” he says.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2022

Targets under the proposed legislation include greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 43% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels – reflecting the government’s recently updated Nationally Determined Contribution commitment under the Paris Agreement – and the achievement of net zero emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

The reduction in CO2 emissions per ton produced between 2005 and 2021 was 19%. . To ensure that we meet the climate targets, Essity has appointed a steering committee led by members of the Executive Management Team. Breakthrough technology: In 2021, Essity began tissue manufacturing using pulp from wheat straw.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Nature-inspired Nature-based solutions will become central to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, while new materials and processes inspired by nature will support the growth of a regenerative economy.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A great deal of work lies ahead: to be on track to meet Canada’s national climate goal by 2030, emissions from the agriculture sector must decline at an average annual rate of 2.9 But data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) shows a yawning “say–do” gap, with emissions declining by just 0.4

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 30, 2023

After last year’s budget, I submitted a media request asking the Department of Finance and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change how much they were set to spend to address the climate crisis in 2022. The official response was a shoulder shrug.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Further, the company continues to address the challenges presented by climate change as it works toward a goal of carbon neutral global operations by 2040, guided by our strategy: decarbonize whats possible, co-create with purpose, and neutralize whats left.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Australia’s Climate Change Bill 2022 was approved by the Senate on Thursday, passing the final step to pass the legislation, and enshrining the country’s emissions reduction targets into law.

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Global Renewable News

APRIL 24, 2024

Highlights Carbon emissions from electric generation are down 48% from 2005 levels Since 2022, helped customers access nearly $377 million in financial supportDuke Energy (NYSE: D.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen announced today that the government will develop sectoral decarbonization plans, starting with six key emissions-intensive sectors, aimed at supporting the government’s net zero plan and interim climate targets.

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Global Renewable News

JUNE 12, 2024

Xcel Energy has reduced carbon emissions 54% from the electricity it provides to customers from 2005 levels, the company announced in its 19th annual Sustainability Report today (June 12).Xcel.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Most important, benefits need to be equitably distributed, ideally problem-solving for legacy effects of climate change that often occur in marginalized communities. A number of safeguards developed by NGOs can aid companies deciding whose carbon removal projects to invest in, Kozar said. . Buck said. .

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Australia set its climate goals into law last year, including its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve net zero by 2050. The post Australia to Issue Inaugural Green Bond appeared first on ESG Today.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. However, according to investors, greater action on adaptation is required by the government to address the steep the economic costs of climate change’s physical impacts.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A long-time leader on sustainability, Walmart has worked with suppliers, NGOs, and climate action leaders to inspire positive change across global value chains since 2005. We are proud of our collaboration with Ørsted, Schneider Electric, and this initial cohort of valued suppliers.”. In 2021, the group's revenue was DKK 77.7

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

In an effort to overcome the climate crisis, organizations across the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels. Our teams develop innovative strategies and technologies to help our customers mitigate and adapt to climate change.” By 2035, reach 100% carbon pollution-free electricity.

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