Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

This mismanagement has seeped into government-backed carbon credit programs, which have resulted in community evictions and protests. Organizations such as The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the World Wildlife Fund have been instrumental in structuring debt-for-nature swaps across the globe, including in Africa.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The acquisition comes as demand for carbon offset projects and related credits is expected to increase significantly over the next several years, as companies and businesses increasingly launch net zero ambitions, and turn to offsets as a bridge to their own absolute emissions reduction efforts, or to balance difficult to avoid emissions.

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ESG Today

MARCH 20, 2023

The new goal is an update to the company’s prior emissions targets, which included reducing absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 90% and Scope 3 intensity by 70% by 2030, all on a 2015 baseline. Additionally, the absolute emissions reduction target does not include the use of carbon offsetting.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 8, 2022

Launched in 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global set of goals, targets, and indicators developed by the United Nations to guide countries, communities, and organizations in their work to create a sustainable world by 2030. Carbon offsets. Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable Solutions.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, Aflac achieved carbon neutrality in its Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by reducing emissions and purchasing renewable energy credits and carbon offsets. Carbon neutrality in all Scopes by 2040 and net zero emissions by 2050. Climate Risk Management.

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3BL Media

MARCH 14, 2022

By offering only products with an environmental benefit and operating with a zero-carbon footprint, the energy provider remains committed to sustainability every step of the way. Green Mountain customers have collectively helped avoid nearly 100 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of planting more than 11 million trees.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

They also noted the due diligence aspects of a framework that must now be implemented by all federal departments and agencies in line with the targets in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? The announcement has no impact on provincial subsidies last calculated at a minimum of $2.5

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Thanks to everything from historic climate policies to being a topic of interest on late night television, the recent focus on carbon offsets — and the Voluntary Carbon Market as a whole — has never been stronger. Cool Effect calls it “Carbon Done Correctly,” because that’s exactly what it is.

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natural carbon sinks, carbon mineralization and direct-air capture are early focus areas for Stripe’s 2019 Negative Emissions Commitment , which aims to spend at least double in these areas compared with what it pays for carbon offsets. Mauricio Gutierrez, CEO, NRG; Houston. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

By contrast, the report makes no mention of risky and controversial attempts at solar radiation management (SRM) and leaves out any reliance on carbon offsets. Its only reference to nuclear electricity is in the chart showing its low emission reduction potential and high cost through 2030. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Faillo began his career at Fifth Third in 2015 and most recently served in Investor Relations as the director of ESG reporting and analytics.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Faillo began his career at Fifth Third in 2015 and most recently served in Investor Relations as the director of ESG reporting and analytics.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Then, the organization can balance out the remaining emissions by investing in projects that remove emissions (carbon sinks). After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Therefore, companies have increasingly focused on reducing carbon emissions. Mandatory vs Voluntary Carbon Offset.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“When you’re thinking of centering justice in your climate action plan, it’s important to understand there are many tools and many actions you can take as a business, and carbon offsets are just (some of the tools) in the toolbox to fight climate change,” Schrock said.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

That year, Brazil accounted for 43% of global tree cover loss in tropical primary forests, up from just over 25% in 2015, according to the World Resources Institute. Until now, opacity has plagued carbon offset markets, undermining market confidence. And that is where disappointment come in.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Back in 2015, when 174 countries and the European Union came together to finalize the Paris Agreement, each agreed to do its part to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story at Grist.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When Gravity Water first launched in Nepal, the country was still rebuilding after two devastating earthquakes in 2015,” said Danny Wright, the company’s founder and executive director. SaniTap will use the fast-emerging carbon offset market to finance the work,” said Andrew Tanswell, managing director.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 3, 2021

In addition, those wishing to order coffee from Roar Gill can opt for afforestation projects and deliveries to be carbon offset in key coffee growing nations. How to Avoid Greenwashing?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

C threshold for first time between 2023-27 according to research published in May. “Offsetting should be widespread [and] every corporation should be doing it,” he said, adding that companies purchasing carbon offsets are decarbonising faster.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Greenhouse gases can be removed through natural processes, like growing trees, or potentially through new technologies, like “direct air capture” or underground carbon sequestration. The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

COP26 concluded on 13 November amidst widespread disappointment from environmental commentators about a lack of significant progress on the promises made in Paris in 2015 – even disbelief at a failure to commit to fulfilling many of those past promises.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

billion acres by 2050, Drawdown estimated carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015, according to NOAA — and could return $206 billion to $273 billion on investment. billion acres to 1.9

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Special Climate Envoy John Kerry’s proposal to use a new form of carbon offsets to pay for green energy investments in countries transitioning from coal. The idea, loosely sketched out, is that countries dependent on coal could sell carbon credits to companies, with the revenue going to fund clean energy projects.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Carbon cowboys Those seeking to profit off the carbon-storing potential of other peoples lands. Companies have been buying carbon offsets for years, paying to protect, say, a forest to claim theyve canceled out the greenhouse gases they emit.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Carbon cowboys Those seeking to profit off the carbon-storing potential of other peoples lands. Companies have been buying carbon offsets for years, paying to protect, say, a forest to claim theyve canceled out the greenhouse gases they emit.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 28, 2022

I got to know the voluntary market in 2015 on a field trip to Madagascar. When did you found Ceezer, and what’s the story behind it? What was your initial inspiration? I founded CEEZER in October 2021, the idea, however, goes way back. Working with a mangrove project there, I experienced real scientific rigor that […].

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