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Breakthrough International Agreement Reached at COP29 to Advance Global Carbon Market

ESG Today

Delegates at the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) achieved an important breakthrough on the first day of the event in Baku, Azerbaijan, reaching consensus on standards for the creation of carbon credits under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, key for advancing the establishment and growth of a global carbon market.

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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

Carbon neutrality refers specifically to balancing out carbon dioxide emissions with natural carbon sequestration, whereas climate neutrality refers to balancing out all greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, including carbon, but also other greenhouse gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide.

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NETSTREIT's ESG Journey Supported by Sustainability-Linked Credit Facility

3BL Media

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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Turbulence on Take-off

Chris Hall

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. The aviation industry will not be able to align with Paris Agreement goals without a massive scale-up in the use of SAFs,” Selih said.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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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From Wild West to Law of the Jungle

Chris Hall

New sheriffs have set up shop and are drawing up rules on both the supply and demand side of voluntary markets, which may eventually be reinforced by regulation introduced by policymakers in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. . “At