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. My wife and I live in a 110-year-old semi-detached house in midtown Toronto. Like many homes across the country, the walls are brick and thus uninsulated.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The report warns that parts of our planet are approaching dangerous tipping points driven by the combination of nature loss and climate change which pose grave threats to humanity. When nature is compromised, it is more vulnerable to climate change and edges closer to dangerous and irreversible regional tipping points.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

That would make China home to almost half of the world’s total renewable power capacity by the end of this decade, up from a share of a third in 2010. While China is adding the biggest volumes of renewables, India is growing at the fastest rate among major economies. times its 2022 level by 2030.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

And together we are achieving the system-level change required to transform our industry and the world. Advancing sustainability In order to avoid the most destructive effects of climate change, the world must reduce carbon emissions, and the built environment has a huge role to play.

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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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Invesco, AP4 evaluate potential of integrating climate alignment in portfolio srategies, reflecting investor appetite to move away from purely backward-looking approach. Choosing the right method to measure portfolio emissions is crucial to investors’ alignment with the Paris Agreement, and should reflect their strategy.

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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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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

If you thought the first two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviews on climate science made for bleak reading, then the third instalment will be the hardest yet to digest. . Average annual GHG emissions during 2010-2019 were higher than in any previous decade.” . Supply chain challenge .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jamal Srouji, Global Climate Programme Associate at the W orld Resources Institute, says the Global Stocktake is a chance to correct course on climate. This year is a critical moment for climate action. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.”

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Here are the news that caught my interest as the annual climate change conference, COP23, is currently taking place in Bonn, Germany. It is safe to write that since Hurricanes Maria and Irma and this year’s climate horror stories , climate change is not a distant threat anymore but a day-to-day reality.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

by the end of the century – a temperature that will result in the planet facing climate disaster. Without significant international fiscal policy revisions such as this, we will categorically lose our fight against climate change, where climate-related disasters become our only certainty.”.

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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that even if the world rapidly decarbonises, greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and current emissions trends will make some significant climate impacts unavoidable through 2040. Since 2000 , over four billion lives have been impacted and US$2.9

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 1, 2022

After notable progress between 2010 and 2019, which nevertheless masks differences by country and by objective, the international community has not made any progress since 2020 towards sustainable development. This could be aligned, for example, with the Paris Agreement for Climate which includes objectives for 2050.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

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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.

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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.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Climate change is impacting everyone, but its ongoing effects threaten the lives and livelihoods of some people more than others. Acting on climate justice is important, because social inequities increase the severity of the risks and costs that vulnerable people face as a result of climate change.

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The cost of solar energy has plummeted by 88% since 2010, and onshore wind by 68%. Because many of these countries lack the resources to implement renewable energy projects and adapt their infrastructures to reduce climate change. However, this funding is not just a matter of charity. In this sense, Article 6.4

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Given the world’s long-established reliance on fossil fuels, the unfortunate reality is that the biggest and most carbon-intensive companies globally have huge amounts of influence over policy, recently outnumbering delegates from countries most impacted by climate change at COP summits and even clinching crucial climate-focused roles. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 14, 2025

Biden argued the ban will help protect the US coastline from disasters like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The US has an important global leadership role to drive progress on addressing climate change, said McGannon. This is equivalent to around 1.5 times the size of Alaska.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Katie Zakrzewski was a climate denier until the age of 18. The podcast host and communications professional grew up in a conservative Catholic household in North Little Rock, Arkansas, believing climate change was a “big government excuse to justify taxing people.”

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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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