ESG Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice. The achievement marks significant growth for the organization, with the number of companies committing to climate targets rising by 29% over the past year from 7,425.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2024

All of Lenovos sites in the EMS scope are ISO 14001:2015 certified. See here to view Lenovos Global ISO 14001:2015 certificates. The scope encompasses these same activities when performed by its subsidiary and/or affiliate companies. Lenovos performance against these objectives and targets is available in Section 8.0.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Minnesota missed a 2015 target to reduce climate pollution by 15% and is on pace to miss a 2025 goal of 30%. The companies that signed the letter all have made strong internal climate commitments, including several who have made net-zero commitments. For more information, visit ceres.org and follow @CeresNews.

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ESG Today

APRIL 10, 2024

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice. According to the criteria of the initial standard, science-based net zero would require decarbonization of 90-95% by 2050, with neutralization of residual emissions that are not yet possible to cut.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In just a month, global envoys will gather for COP29, the annual climate gathering meant to advance the goals of the 2015 Paris. The post Climate negotiators head to Baku to craft a financial architecture for the net-zero future appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: When the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) was launched in 2015, the goal was to recruit 100 companies. At this point, the question is not whether major companies will commit to net-zero emissions, but how they plan to achieve this target. SOURCE: SAP. Dealing with the Scope 3 Challenge.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Based on the latest Future of Enterprises report, we take a closer look at what enterprises can do to reduce their environmental impact and facilitate the journey to net zero. The journey towards a net-zero future has only just begun, and we are truly running out of time. DESCRIPTION: By Sepideh Matinfar. Well, I am!

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2024

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice. According to the criteria of the initial standard, science-based net zero would require decarbonization of 90-95% by 2050, with neutralization of residual emissions that are not yet possible to cut.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The race is on, proclaims the United Nations, to create a Net Zero economy (same amount of greenhouse gas /GHG emissions removed from the atmosphere as produced). Public conversations about Net Zero are usually about “fossil fuels vs. renewables” and the impact of each category on climate change.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Under the 2021 Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, Ottawa must publish targets for 2035 by December 1, and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has confirmed the government will release the proposed targets on schedule.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Founded in 2015 Longevity Partners works with real estate and infrastructure firms to achieve green building certifications, and assists them on energy audits, data reporting and management, climate resilience strategies, and the development of energy and resource efficiency measures to reduce environmental impact and future-proof assets.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2022

After years of limited action by the previous Conservative government, the Liberals came to power in 2015 pledging to ramp up climate ambition. This was “the first opportunity for the federal government to lay out a comprehensive, detailed road map [to] get us to net zero,” Smith said. “So So 2022 is a critical year.”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The International Energy Agency has outlined that 50% of all existing buildings need to be net zero by 2040, increasing to 85% by 2050. Buildings are responsible for 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of the bloc’s energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CEE countries require 5.7

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s part of the message that Racquel Moses, CEO of the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator and a UN ambassador for net-zero, will be taking to the climate summit being held in Dubai starting this week. We can’t continue to borrow our way out of a situation created by wealth that we do not have,” she says. Virgin Islands.

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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. The initial standard, issued in 2021, did not permit carbon credits for emissions reduction.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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. Just the ticket.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade? Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A communiqué signed by UK mayors and local leaders calls for a ‘power shift’ from Whitehall so that local and regional authorities can deliver Net Zero. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. license ).

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced a series of new climate targets, including a goal to achieve net zero emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 from the production of hot rolled steel. According to Nucor, the new commitments make the company the first diversified steelmaker in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a blueprint of 17 ways to make the world a more just, inclusive and sustainable place. Shilpa Tiwari is executive vice-president of social impact and sustainability at Citizen Relations and the founder of Her Climb.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. The future of all life on Earth depends on us fundamentally changing our relationship with nature now and building an equitable, nature-positive, net-zero carbon future. Pull Quote.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s discussion among many water utility leaders to have water utilities sign up for net zero goals, for example,” he added. The city of Portland, Oregon, has used in-pipe units since 2015, saving enough energy to power several hundred homes.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2023

Abidjan Lowest consumption-based emissions The Ivory Coast aims to be net-zero by 2030. In 2015, municipal leaders set out to make their city resilient to the climate crisis. In 1987, Copenhageners used an average of more than 170 litres per day. Today that figure is just below 100 litres, with plans to get to 90 by 2025.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The retail giant said that it will continue to work towards its aspirational goal of zero emissions by 2040, but warned that progress will not be linear.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The clean energy transition is happening faster than predicted, with renewable deployment rates growing in line with the International Energy Agency’s scenario for reaching net-zero by 2050. While Canadian energy majors have paid lip service to the idea of becoming “net-zero,” their current climate strategies amount to delay tactics.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 31, 2023

Last year, it committed to cut emissions by 40 to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 17, 2022

And it would soon achieve net-zero emissions. And here was a thriving net-zero community in prosperous Denmark to lead the way. . Fossil fuels hadn’t literally been eliminated, but Samsø’s energy planners added enough wind power to offset the emissions from the cars and ferries that continued to burn oil.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A new survey of climate experts reveals that a majority believes the Earth to be headed for a rise in global temperatures far higher than the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 It also shows that two-thirds of respondents believe we may succeed in achieving net zero CO2 emissions during the second half of this century.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 11, 2024

That would have to start falling sharply this decade to be in line with the IEA’s scenario that would see the planet reach net-zero emissions by the middle of the century.”

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some of those memes get traction — “zero waste” and “net zero” are two relatively recent examples that are having their moment. A 2015 study by The Economist Intelligence Unit estimated that as much as $43 trillion of manageable assets may be at risk globally between now and the end of the century.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is a part of RIL’s 15-year vision to become a leading new-energy and -materials company, with plans to be net-zero by 2035. Adani’s foray into the green energy business began in 2015, when he announced the world’s largest solar power plant, 648 megawatts at Kamuthi, Ramanathapuram. million households.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2022

Journey to net zero: We reduced HP’s carbon footprint by 9 percent compared to 2019, and we need to accelerate efforts to reduce 50 percent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and to achieve net zero GHG by 2040. In 2021, we saw $3.5 Additional findings include: Addressing Climate Crisis. Accelerating Digital Equity.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. Australia’s climate financing between 2015 and 2020 totalled A$1.4 The plan, which has taken A$27.4 billion and included contributions to strengthen adaptation in the country.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Shift Action’s findings are similar to reports released in July from Carbon Tracker , a global advocacy organization on climate and finance, and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the University of Exeter, all based in the United Kingdom.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2023

Inspiration for the project stemmed in part from what Weihl had observed in 2015/2016, as the American corporate world mobilized around LGBTQ2S+ rights. “We were winning, but we weren’t winning fast enough, and with climate, winning slowly is the same as losing,” he said in a 2020 TED Talk. The same year, he founded ClimateVoice.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

NDCs are national climate action plans and targets, ushered in under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Investable NDCs have the potential to send important signals to global markets and facilitate greater flows of capital into the economic transition to net zero and climate resilience. Will NDCs send a clearer investment signal?

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

NDCs are a major part of countries’ obligations under the Paris Agreement, outlining their interim commitments on the pathway to net zero. The updated NDC represents the framework for India’s cleaner energy transition for the 2021-2030 period and marks a step towards the country’s goal to reach net zero by 2070.

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