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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. This air cargo is not only one of the fastest-growing shipping methods, it's also one of the most carbon-intensive. Amazon began growing its fleet of 20 airplanes in 2015. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00.

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H&M Warns Against Use of Carbon Offsets in SBTi’s Climate Target Standard

ESG Today

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice. The publication of the letter follows an announcement from the SBTi in April of its plans to allow the use of EACs in its anticipated update of its Corporate Net Zero Standard.

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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

Along the way, I’ve spoken with airline consultants, fuel producers, carbon offset experts and industry critics, as well as with Shell executives, to understand the technologies and market drivers that could, over time, enable aviation to align with other industries in meeting the terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

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Kering Commits to 40% Absolute Emissions Reduction Across Value Chain

ESG Today

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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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

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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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

C as a “survival target” for average global warming, and the meeting recognized that the most technically achievable decarbonization options are also the most economically feasible. But there’s still time to take action if countries pick the right decarbonization options and scale up fast. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C

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NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: A Business Structure for Sustainability Success

3BL Media

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. Carbon capture innovation. Sustainable Development Goals.