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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

This updraft effect, combined with high interest rates that depressed stock prices of firms spending big on transforming their assets (such as those leading the clean energy transition), led to the Global 100 underperforming over the past two years. both earned spots in the Global 100 ranking, as did telecommunications giants BCE Inc.,

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Canada’s Best 50 corporate citizens of 2022 continue to conquer the markets

Corporate Knights

Financial regulators should make the tax subsidies banks and pension funds receive conditional on alignment with the net-zero economy. This could help unlock $80 to $200 billion of fresh annual investment into global climate solutions from the pension fund sector alone. The barrier is an incrementalist mindset.

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Aegon AM Appoints Anne Scott as Global Climate Solutions Lead

ESG Today

Most recently this has seen us shift our short dated investment grade bond strategy to become the Global Short Dated Climate Transition Fund, focusing on the transition to a net-zero global economy.”

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

Carlos Sanchez

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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Applied Materials Receives SBTi Validation of its Science-based Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions Reductions Targets

3BL Media

Semiconductors are the foundation of technology advancements that are transforming the global economy and can improve peoples’ lives in so many ways. Applied Materials has been reporting on social responsibility and environmental matters since 2005. By setting a 1.5°C-aligned

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter. Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College, London.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)