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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. They could have an amazing impact on accelerating decarbonization, but theyve decided not to do it. Launched in 2015 by a group of Pacific Island nations, the initiative now has the official support of 13 national governments and the European Parliament.

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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. are shipped by trucks, but a small and rapidly growing segment of goods are shipped by planes. . This air cargo is not only one of the fastest-growing shipping methods, it's also one of the most carbon-intensive.

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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. Setting a target to reduce our total absolute emissions will support the decarbonization of our Group, while we continue to align with a 1.5°

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. It was an idea that seemed to have all the right ingredients for the tech-saturated world of 21 st century urban mobility.

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LanzaJet Gains Altitude With Significant Project Funding

3BL Media

Founded by Bill Gates in 2015, Breakthrough Energy recently announced it will grant its first Catalyst project funding to LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels SAF plant in Soperton, Georgia. Construction of the Freedom Pines Fuels project is underway with completed modules due to ship to the site near Savannah, Georgia before the end of 2022.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Global Food and Ingredients Growth rate: 102% Toronto-based, with a network of 500 farmers and four processing plants in Western Canada, Global Food and Ingredients is building a “farm to fork” producer of what it says are traceable, sustainable and plant-based food and dog-food products shipped to 37 countries. A 2015 U.S.

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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. A government source pointed to a provision for regular reviews of the subsidy policy as an important opportunity to ratchet up restrictions over time.