Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ve chipped away at draft-causing gaps over the years, but given, well, climate change, we needed to go a big step further and significantly cut our natural gas consumption. We can’t decarbonize without a massive scale-up. My wife and I live in a 110-year-old semi-detached house in midtown Toronto.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As a trusted name in the industry, our investment will also deepen the technical decarbonization expertise Macquarie provides its clients as the global energy transition accelerates.”. This relationship will help us serve more projects and deliver more impact to mitigate climate change and improve livelihoods.”.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

is expected to bring robust economic development benefits to the region, and hydrogen is attractive as an energy resource because it has immediate potential to accelerate decarbonization in the Southeast and across all sectors of the U.S. A hydrogen hub in the Southeastern U.S.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2022

Investors increasingly recognize the urgency of climate change and have allocated a growing amount of capital to sustainability efforts, with $500 billion dedicated to decarbonization in 2020 – double the amount invested in 2010. It’s a missed opportunity to drive value.

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ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Viridos had formed an R&D partnership with Exxon in 2010, collaborating on the development of next-generation biofuels from algae. Breakthrough Energy Ventures’ Carmichael Roberts said: “Decarbonizing the heavy transportation industry is critical for addressing climate change and therefore a top priority for BEV.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2010, the SAC launched the Higg Index suite of tools, which are used by businesses and organizations to measure, evaluate, and improve social and environmental impact in the textile, apparel, and footwear industry. This has meant combining long-term thinking with shorter-term, achievable, and measurable goals.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The annual United Nations Climate Change report - coinciding with the 27 th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt - concludes that while countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions downward, accelerated progress and collaboration are critical to our planet’s future.

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Just Capital

APRIL 21, 2023

Within its supply chain, IBM is building on its 2010 goal of all firsthand suppliers maintaining their own environmental management systems, and requiring suppliers in emission-intensive sectors to set scientific emission reduction targets aligned with a 1.5-degree degree warming scenario.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Decarbonization. Is decarbonization a good thing and, if so, how do we achieve it? SOPHIA LI: So what are the most effective steps we can take—as individuals that feed into the collective—to slow the rate of climate disruption? SOURCE: Meta. DESCRIPTION: Emissions. Greenhouse gases. Maybe you’ve heard on the news about the IPCC.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

And its corporate commitment to reduce carbon emissions at least 80% (from 2010 levels) by 2050 is behind much of New England, he said. Mark Miller, PPL’s director of communications, said the company is “uniquely qualified” to support Rhode Island’s decarbonization goals.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

According to numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), ion lithium batteries have gotten 20 percent cheaper year on year from 2010 to 2016 , going from $1,000 per kWh of energy stored in 2010 to $273 in 2016. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution.

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Sense and Sustainability

MAY 26, 2021

Leading companies across the globe recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk, and that solving it is a multitrillion-dollar opportunity. Others, such as ExxonMobil, have defied calls to align their business strategies with a decarbonizing economy. For them, a financial reckoning may finally have arrived.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress. trillion from 2010-2019.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The shift also is important for addressing climate change. The continued decommissioning of coal-fired power plants in Ohio, and the increase in solar energy activity in particular, has become a significant development toward decarbonization goals,” Michaud said. That’s less than one-seventh of Ohio’s production in 2010.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

How to Set Business Targets That Help Address Climate Change (Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash ) This article by Matthew Lynch , Rob Klassen , and Chelsea Hicks-Webster is part of “ The Basics ” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The impacts of climate change feel abstract until they’re not. . It’s a reminder of how our systems are limping towards climate chaos, and we — and our infrastructure — are not prepared. All-electric homes are critical to decarbonization. Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

While the name may be different, fundamentally the strategy is similar to earlier climate commitments: reduce emissions as quickly as possible. . Corporate energy leaders can drive decarbonization in the power sector. Any net-zero plan that is serious about addressing climate change must include rapid decarbonization.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. percent between 2010 and 2021 while renewable-focused funds gained 8 percent in the same time frame.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Witnessing the disproportionate impacts of climate change – floods, earthquakes and heat waves – deepened my resolve,” he says. Prior to that, she led the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Orillia, Ontario, implementing new EV chargers and undertaking an energy-management analysis of city facilities.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2023

He acknowledges the significant efforts these companies were making to mitigate climate change: buying billions of dollars of clean energy to power their operations, maintaining venture investment funds for cleantech start-ups, investing heavily in the research and development of decarbonization technologies.

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Matthew E. Kahn

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. As a macroeconomist, John views decarbonization as one strategy that raises our real income in the year 2100 and he wants this strategy to be compared to other pro-growth strategies. His piece mainly focuses on macroeconomic issues. My Thoughts; 1.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 15, 2022

Powerful companies continue to lobby against climate policies. However, that doesn’t mean we should give up on all businesses as key players in tackling climate change. Instead, look out for businesses that are demonstrating climate leadership and give them a platform.

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Matthew E. Kahn

JUNE 9, 2021

As we face the climate change challenge, those geographic areas that develop an edge in being resilient in the face of climate risks will experience greater economic growth. The emerging spatial equilibrium determines how much risk climate change poses to us. My 2021 book builds on these themes.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the nearly 40 years since, tackling climate change has become an increasingly important aspect of the environmental justice movement. Decarbonization and the corresponding transition to a low-carbon economy need to happen quickly. degrees Fahrenheit (0.65 This is predicted to rise to 59 percent should we reach 7.5

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In Asia, some countries have made progress: For example, across the region some 840 million people have gained access to cleaner ways of cooking since 2010. And China, India and Indonesia have each more than halved the number of people relying on dirty fuels. Others have made less progress.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2022

Kelly Levin, Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change at the Bezos Earth Fund, highlights the key messages for investors, corporates and policymakers. It provides one of the most comprehensive examinations of the intensifying impacts of climate change and future risks, particularly for resource-poor countries and marginalised communities.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

In the last six months, we’ve seen two examples of how fragile the grid can be, especially with climate change making weather more unpredictable. could decarbonize 90 percent of the power system reliably and affordably using today's technologies, according to a new analysis by the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSNs comprise research and educational institutes that promote practical and integrated approaches towards the implementation of the SDGs, such as decarbonization strategies, ways of sustainable land-use and food systems and tracking of bilateral spillover effects globally. SDSNs consists of national, regional and thematic Networks.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A 2010 study found that for every $1 million invested, oil and gas would create roughly five jobs, while wind and solar would create 13 or 14 jobs. . Clean energy policy is climate policy . So it makes sense that voters are beginning to see climate as a voting issue. Second, clean energy jobs are distributed.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. Integrating the pro-climate change and sustainability efforts of asset managers, investors and non-governmental organizations directly with pro-democracy advocacy.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

The consistent growth of clean energy is attributable to solid positioning , that includes its capacity to decarbonizing energy and deleverage tyrants. Both climate change and Putin’s invasion are directly tied to fossil fuels. Russia’s Dismal Climate Change Policy and Silencing of Environmentalists.

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Sustainable Round Table

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The wholly partisan “IRA” extends and completes two other bi-partisan Acts of the 117th Congress and reflects a changed politics, as both the Democratic and Republican parties are now active supporters of a strategic national industrial policy for the U.S., 1990-2010) championed only by the aging “labor wing” of the Democratic Party.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 11, 2025

As grief and fear spilled onto social media feeds, one climate leader held space for hope. There is an antidote to doom and despair, the architect of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change posted. How many times do we not agree with colleagues who are also doing the utmost to address climate change?

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