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

Corporate Knights

T hree years ago, Canada enshrined its 2050 net-zero target into law. Bringing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to a level anywhere in the vicinity of zero, net or otherwise, in the next 30 years will require a radical departure from what we’ve seen the last three decades.

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Southern Company Accelerates Clean Energy Transition With Expansion of Zero-Carbon Resources and Bold Net-Zero Goals

3BL Media

Our growing portfolio of zero-carbon resources plays an integral role in helping us meet these objectives. Our greenhouse gas reduction goals are to achieve 50% reduction from 2007 levels by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050, consistent with the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. The company’s "Commitment to Life" vision for 2030 includes net-zero GHG emissions by 2030, and raising by 7.4 In 2019, Gutierrez issued a new goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, expecting to reach it halfway by 2025.

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Oil industry pioneer wants to lead sustainable aviation revolution. Will it take off?

Corporate Knights

If airlines are to meet their net-zero commitments by 2050 – a goal set in 2021 by the industry’s trade association, the International Air Transport Association – they will have to find a substitute for fossil fuels fairly quickly. “So Renewable diesel and SAF are decarbonization solutions that are available today.”.

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Divert Announces $1 Billion Agreement with Enbridge to Fund Waste Food-to-Clean Energy Buildout

ESG Today

Founded in 2007, Divert creates advanced technologies and sustainable infrastructure to eliminate wasted food, including solutions to maximize the freshness of food, recover edible food to serve communities in need, and to convert wasted food into renewable energy.

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United Invests in Climate Tech Provider Svante to Turn Captured Carbon into Jet Fuel

ESG Today

Founded in 2007, Burnaby, British Columbia-based Svante provides structured adsorbent beds – or filters – and modular rotary contactor machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions, aimed at enabling emissions intensive industries to capture large-scale emissions from existing infrastructure.

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Carbon Emissions From U.S. Power Sector Decreased Slightly in 2022, Nineteenth Annual Benchmarking Report Finds

3BL Media

The report shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2022 are down 34% below their peak levels in 2007. While it is important to acknowledge these unprecedented incentives, the power sector must actively accelerate clean energy investments to achieve net zero targets. It is authored by ERM.