Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revelations that almost 95% of the “avoided deforestation” carbon credits issued by the world’s largest certifier have zero climate mitigation value, have sparked calls for rigour, transparency, and accountability in the carbon credit process. I wish it were otherwise, but this report is pretty compelling.”

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Impakter

JANUARY 31, 2023

Earlier this month, an investigation conducted by the Guardian, Die Zeit, and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest carbon offsets sold by Verra are worthless. This has re-raised issues around voluntary carbon markets and their lack of regulation.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

wireless industry to set science-based targets (SBTs) to significantly cut its carbon emissions by 2025 and help the company mitigate the risks of climate change. When the Un-carrier made headlines to earn that industry-first RE100 commitment earlier this year, it also achieved those carbon targets four years ahead of schedule.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Climate, news that the recent spate of pledges from major economies could put the world on course to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals are encouraging, said sustainability membership organisation IEMA – but only if those pledges are acted upon.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Climate, news that the recent spate of pledges from major economies could put the world on course to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals are encouraging, said sustainability membership organisation IEMA – but only if those pledges are acted upon.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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