Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A communiqué signed by UK mayors and local leaders calls for a ‘power shift’ from Whitehall so that local and regional authorities can deliver Net Zero. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. license ).

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s only the second recycling company and the first steelmaking company to earn the top spot in the Global 100 since its inception in 2005, highlighting the growing importance of both the circular economy and low-carbon metals in creating a more sustainable future. The company’s rise to the top of the ranking has been rapid.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

While b oth the Global 100 and ACWI fell somewhat in 2022, since its inception on February 1, 2005, the Global 100 Index has generated a total investment return of 270.7% But the narrative of the G100 remains the same as it has been since the index was started in 2005: more sustainable companies are not just better for people and the planet.

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

greenhouse gas emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels. By 2050, achieve a net-zero emissions economy. Our internal environmental objectives focus on three main channels: reducing carbon output, reducing our waste, and shifting increasingly toward renewable energy. By 2035, reach 100% carbon pollution-free electricity.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

With carbon emissions expected to rebound this year, 2021 presents another opportunity for companies to invest in climate-saving initiatives that move the corporate world closer to a net-zero future, especially carbon removal projects. Are they seeing any benefit from it or just having to live next to a waste disposal site?"

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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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Global Stocktake report also highlighted the role that consumer behavior plays in generating emissions, calling on countries to shift to sustainable diets, halve food loss and waste, and transition at least two-thirds of all passenger travel to fossil fuel-free methods of transport by 2030.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

If you’re a company interested in climate change, zero might be the most important number. Net zero” is the lens many businesses are using to address their climate impacts. As of October 2022, more than 8,000 companies globally have made commitments to net zero under the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He’d always had a thing against waste – in his early 20s, he and a carpenter friend launched a start-up, crafting wooden bow ties and tie clips out of offcuts from his friend’s workshop – and wanted to see genuine efforts to reduce it. Stonemeijer, who graduated from the University of Exeter’s Business School in 2018, may be one of them.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 28, 2023

The Venture Capital Alliance, made up of firms with a combined portfolio worth over $60 billion, has the backing of the UN’s Race to Zero campaign and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. In partnership with local firm Tecroveer, the company will build a plant capable of converting 11,500 tonnes of waste per year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040. Its circular renewable diesel fueling system is unique in the country.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The milestone has been achieved four years ahead of schedule and is in line with the group’s strategy to achieve carbon-neutrality across its global facilities by 2025 and net-zero emissions by 2050. These projects turn an otherwise wasted resource into pipeline-quality RNG that displaces the use of fossil-based natural gas.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 22, 2024

The City of Toronto also has an expansive net-zero plan, dubbed TransformTO , as well as one of North America’s few municipal policies (the Toronto Green Standard) designed to push builders to drive energy efficiency beyond the low bar in the Ontario Building Code.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles. Since its inception in 2005, the Courtauld Commitment has helped transform the UK’s food system. In the UK, the campaign reached over eight million people.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2022

This strategy centers around goals to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, and achieve net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. Strategy 5: Improve End of Life Energy-related Waste Management.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Masonite was founded nearly 100 years ago on sustainability principles and a revolutionary process that transformed waste wood from the logging industry into durable pressed hardboard. Demeter has over €1 billion under management and has carried out 200 investments since 2005.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 14, 2023

Australia has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and to net zero emissions by 2050. That’s a start, but the path to net zero will require consistent investment and focus over time. Yet, there is still much to do to ensure industries maintain their trajectory for net zero.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

To understand the role of net carbon removers within the broader net zero conversation, it important to breakdown how the Paris Agreement is structured, explains Kevin Conrad, Executive Director of the CfRN, with its foundation built around ‘climate stability’.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Deirdre Cooper, Co-Head of Thematic Equities and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Environment Fund at global asset manager Ninety One, says the world’s ability to meet net zero targets will depend on countries such as China and India. What are China’s stated net zero goals? billion kilowatts by 2030.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A decade ago only a handful of companies, primarily in the energy sector, were measuring their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and planning for net zero. These companies may need to consider issues such as reducing their carbon footprint, managing e-waste, and ensuring responsible sourcing of raw materials.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Responsible investment opportunities received a further boost earlier this year with the election of a new government committed to transitioning Australia toward a low-carbon economy in line with an accelerated net zero pathway. which has now been approved by federal parliament.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

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. But daunting challenges bring out the best in people.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

Financial regulators should make the tax subsidies banks and pension funds receive conditional on alignment with the net-zero economy. In the recent federal budget, the government included a chart showing the annual investment required to hit our net-zero-emissions targets. The barrier is an incrementalist mindset.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

What are Australia’s stated net zero goals? Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26. Its interim target is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Brazil pledged to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 59%–67% by 2035, compared to 2005 levels. This aligns with global agriculture, energy, and waste management reforms. The post COP29 takeaways: a turning point for climate finance, but falls short on fossil fuels appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

On Earth Day, President Biden pledged to reduce global warming emissions by 50 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. This law will help America to reduce energy waste, and improve resiliency. trillion bipartisan package will see $5 billion go towards zero and low-emission buses and ferries.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2022

emissions would fall as much as 52% from 2005 levels. Nearly every major utility company pledged to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. The agriculture and waste sectors are early in their decarbonization process and haven’t drawn much focus in national policy debates. That’s the goal the Earth Index tracks.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 23, 2025

The US Climate Alliance, a net zero-focused group of 24 U.S. Paris Agreement goals, including its targets to reduce GHG emissions at least 50% -52% by 2030, on a 2005 basis, and by 61% – 66% by 2035. Paris Agreement goals, despite President Trumps announced withdrawal from the international climate accord.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

After the four wasted years of the Trump administration, President Joe Biden has been left with the difficult task of both undoing the damage done and attempting to forge a new consensus at a time of division and contention. . “The It produced 5.99 To put this into context, the world produced 34.81 billion metric tonnes of CO2 in 2020. .

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