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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

They also beat the global benchmark MSCI ACWI by 30% from July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025. Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

The analysis, " Banking on Climate Chaos 2021 ," underscores that while overall fossil fuel financing did tumble significantly in 2020, the total amount of financing provided to fossil fuel firms in 2020 was still more than $40 billion higher in 2020 than in 2016, at $750 billion. The banking sector maintains that serious change is afoot.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. The 2016 wave of enforcement actions resulted in renewed effort by companies that hadn’t been shut down to take regulatory concerns more seriously since then. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations.

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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

The steel industry contributes directly to 7% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. Both Vattenfall and LKAB are owned by the Swedish state, while SSAB was privatized in 1994.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

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Estée Lauder Appoints Nancy Mahon as First Chief Sustainability Officer

ESG Today

While at the company, she was also appointed by President Obama as Chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, serving in the role from 2011-2016. Appointing Nancy to Chief Sustainability Officer is an example of our company’s ambition and focus on these initiatives.”

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The state of the planet. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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