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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. Among their suggestions: that future COPs be hosted only by countries that have demonstrated a commitment to the Paris Agreement and that corporate players who are not aligned with the UNs climate goals not be allowed to attend.

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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

3BL Media

While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly.

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Over 75% of Companies Have Cut Emissions Intensity Since Paris Agreement: Accenture

ESG Today

Results were less encouraging when not adjusting for business growth, however, with only around half of companies having cut absolute operational emissions since 2016. 67% of European companies have reduced emissions since 2016, compared with 53% in North America, and 40% in the rest of the world.

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Banks spending trillions to finance causes of climate crisis in Global South: report

Corporate Knights

trillion (all figures in US dollars) in financing for the worst climate offender, the fossil fuel industry, in the Global South since the Paris Agreement on climate change was enacted in 2016. It found that banks have provided an estimated $3.2

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Use of Employee Incentives to Hit Climate Goals More than Doubles Over Past Year: Accenture

ESG Today

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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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. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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Investors crank up the heat on bank fossil fuel financing

Corporate Knights

According to a new report, just 7% of bank funding has gone towards renewable energy between 2016 and 2022 , while the world’s banks continued to plow trillions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion. “The total amounts of clean energy financing in these years remained abysmally low: US$23.2 billion in 2016 and $34.5

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