ESG Today

JUNE 26, 2024

Under CORSIA, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed in 2016 to offset growth-related CO2 emissions in international aviation through the purchase of certificates, for industry emissions over a baseline of 85% of 2019 emissions.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. Marriott is an environmental leader. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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. In 2016, he issued an edict to positively affect 1 billion people by 2025.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. Marriott is an environmental leader. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 14, 2022

But it blew past that threshold in 2016, prompting the company to set even more ambitious targets — to reduce all transport-related emissions to zero by 2050. . When DHL first set its GoGreen target in 2007-2008, the goal was to become 30% more efficient by 2020. The post DHL Is Investing $7.5

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Good.is: Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

That's how engineer Toby McCartney felt, until visiting India in 2016. For every one-mile, two-lane road, there's a carbon offset of about 33 tons (equivalent to about 2.3 Sometimes it seems anti-pollution and recycling efforts are a long road to nowhere. million single-use plastic bags or 80,000 plastic bottles.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2023

This ensures that all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions throughout a product's lifecycle are quantified and offset through measures such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, and carbon offset projects. Furthermore, the certification promises a transparent supply chain through comprehensive traceability of diamonds.

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3BL Media

APRIL 26, 2022

Launched in 2021, UAV targets startups, upcoming technologies, and sustainability concepts that will complement United's goal of net zero emissions by 2050 – without relying on traditional carbon offsets. In 2016, United became the first airline globally to use SAF in regular operations on a continuous basis with SAF from World Energy.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Billy Gascoigne, who helped establish the May Ranch project alongside the May family and partners in the conservation community back in 2016, noted that “Thanks to the ranch’s status as a carbon-reducing project and procurement of a conservation easement years ago, ecosystem recovery is already underway.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As with most real estate investment trusts (REITs), NETSTREIT’s corporate footprint is rather small, consisting of its headquarters location that already had been renovated and optimized from a sustainability perspective in 2016. SBTi does not allow companies to lean on carbon offsets in achieving their science-based target.

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B the Change

JULY 28, 2022

Blanco studied 16,525 carbon reduction projects that companies reported through voluntary reporting from 2011 to 2016. Therefore, they may choose not to set a target at all or to opt for easy but less effective plans, like carbon offset purchases. What’s the best way to prioritize?

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 26, 2022

However, this year their Assess phase has centered on more nuanced internal and external questions: What’s going on in the carbon-offset market? Should we have a carbon-offset strategy, and if so, what should it look like? How are our B2C and B2B models working in Kenya and India, respectively?

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

If you can’t plant them yourself, pay others to plant trees for you through carbon offsets or donating to organizations planting trees. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016. How will businesses operate without electricity? Plant trees.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since 2016, more than 450,000 commercial flights have used some amount of SAFs, the only alternative fuel source that can be used on current aircraft without modifications. According to International Energy Agency, emissions from aviation need to fall by 80% by 2050 for the sector to align with a 1.5°C

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B the Change

MARCH 23, 2023

As companies explore ways to address climate change that go beyond carbon offsets, GoodSAM serves as an example of a business built with a sustainable supply chain. based B Corp that works with farmers in Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, and Bolivia. Behind every event is a large amount of data to track and measure.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. While agroforestry is seen as having significant potential for the carbon offset market, its variability makes it a more complicated agricultural investment.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Mark Kenber, Executive Director of multi-stakeholder platform the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity initiative (VCMI), notes that Colombia incorporated VCMs into its tax and credit system following the launch of its VCM platform in 2016. .

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Carbon offsets are ‘riddled with fraud.’ Solving credibility issues may require a greater overhaul of carbon markets. Carbon insetting Business-speak for companies reducing emissions in their own supply chains; an alternative to carbon offsetting. Can new voluntary guidelines fix that?

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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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