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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

Since the rebound from the 2007-08 financial crisis, it would have taken a singularly motivated unwise investor to lose money in U.S. ESG asset managers, closely attuned to climate-related risks, recognized the receding value of first coal, and now, petroleum investments that are in the midst of an historic decline. equity markets.

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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity

Corporate Knights

Emissions today are higher than they were in 1995, and in the 17 years since they peaked in 2007 they have declined a total of just 11%. At the heart of the climate change challenge is the dependence on fossil fuels that is built into every sector, from buildings and vehicles to power plants and farm equipment, steel mills and breweries.

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IBM Announced as a Sponsor of 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28)

3BL Media

and United Arab Emirates, September 14, 2023 /3BL/ - IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced its role as an Associate Pathway Partner of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). The company issued its first environmental policy more than 50 years ago—in 1971—and published a formal position on climate change in 2007.

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Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

GreenBiz

Notice that these widely used labels tell you nothing about the climate change impact of your choices. In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide. A few years later, the label was gone. This is 38 percent smaller than the U.S.

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Where women lead, money follows

Corporate Knights

The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I I personally don’t know of any senior leaders in Canada that don’t think [climate change] is a risk, and I couldn’t say that five years ago,” says Laura Zizzo, CEO of Manifest Climate.

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Strengthening the Front Lines in the Fight Against Climate Change: A Call for Investment in Coastal Communities’ Resilience

James Militzer

And climate change is arguably the gravest crisis the world has ever seen — and one that impacts countless other global challenges, from poverty to hunger. Coastal communities, like those north and south of New York City, are on the first line of defence against climate change.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” Benedek took a job at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he was briefly a professor.

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