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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels.

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Is the Competition Bureau's probe into RBC's climate claims a warning to other banks?

Corporate Knights

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”.

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Sofidel Commits to Net Zero by 2050

3BL Media

The Net Zero goal, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent removal of residual emissions to as close to zero as possible along the entire value chain , is at the heart of the European Green Deal and considered crucial to limiting global warming to well below 2°C in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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Ericsson's Approach to Environmental Sustainability

3BL Media

Since 2008, Ericsson has made many relevant contributions to international standards in the area of environmental sustainability. Ericsson has contributed to the development of this standard, which meets the requirements of Science Based Target Initiative and UN Race to Zero Net Zero definitions. They make up 0.4%

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Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme

Envirotec Magazine

The exclusion means the UK will fail in its obligations under the Paris Agreement and instead has concentrated on the need to achieve net zero by 2050. By concentrating only on achieving net zero by 2050, it is alleged that the Government has failed to lawfully take account of those aims.

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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. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. million acres the 4.4 and Canadian operations.