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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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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity. “The Some small progress, but not enough.

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ESG alphabet soup: making sense of the regulations

Sustainability Matters

But it took the financial crisis of 2007 to turn the spotlight on excessive risk and expose whole industries to accusations of corruption and greed. GFANZ — Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Another effort by the financial industry to reduce carbon emissions is the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.

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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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How China's energy transition engine is driving change in the Global South

Corporate Knights

Soft power to go hand in hand with big, bold power, as China takes a commanding role in the worlds race to get to net-zero before the devastating impacts of climate change hit another level. China is, for all intents and purposes, fuelling the global green transition right now. With the U.S.