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Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

GreenBiz

The figure below shows countries that had a carbon price in 2007 as a black triangle and countries that did not as a green circle. On average, carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2 percent per year from 2007 to 2017 in countries with a carbon price in 2007 and increased by 3 percent per year in the others.

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U.S. Community Solar Developer Nexamp Raises $520 Million to Accelerate Deployment

ESG Today

Distributed solar and energy storage solutions developer and operator Nexamp announced that it has raised $520 million, with proceeds from the financing aimed at accelerating its growth as the company expands into new markets and builds renewable energy and storage capacity. gigawatts of generating and in-construction capacity.

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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%. Corporate Knights has partnered with York University’s Schulich School of Business to develop a Canadian climate-finance index that tracks and measures private-sector climate-finance flows.

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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

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Proposed Changes to CSRD Via the EU Omnibus

3BL Media

Founded in 2007, CSRHub covers 57,528 public and private companies, and provides ESG performance scores on over 38,833 companies from 134 industries in 156 countries. About CSRHub CSRHub offers the most comprehensive global set of Consensus ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings, information, and tools.

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

GreenBiz

In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide. The label, developed by the World Resources Institute , indicates that the emissions generated by the item are in line with the institute’s recommended dietary carbon footprint.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

In 2007, Benedek left his academic job and founded Anaergia, which converts organic food waste into biofuels, such as renewable natural gas. He worried that the world would face some nasty water shortages and sought to put a dent in water pollution through ultrafiltration membranes he developed with Zenon. Andrew Benedek.

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