Corporate Knights

MAY 12, 2022

Canada’s pension beneficiaries are increasingly worried about how their pensions are being invested in the face of a rapidly worsening climate crisis. A growing number of Canada’s largest public pension administrators and investment managers have made net-zero-emissions commitments.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

The new decarbonization goal will form the basis of Switzerlands second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, which the Swiss Federal Council said will be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by February 10.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

Italians get climate change. A broad 2020 climate survey by the United Nations Development Programme came as no surprise to Italians, even if it did to other Europeans: 81% of Italian respondents expressed belief in the climate emergency, and 78% said their country should do everything possible to respond to it.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Updated and more ambitious Benchmark used to assess focus companies on their net zero transition plans. Benchmark assessments are a cornerstone of Climate Action 100+ and are intended to help inform investors’ engagement strategies and wider public debate. C remains possible due to the growth of clean energy technologies.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

DESCRIPTION: While 69% of focus companies have set commitments to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, overall Benchmark finds companies have failed to show progress across key indicators, including disclosure of 1.5°C-aligned To reflect the pace of change required to limit global warming to 1.5°C SOURCE: Ceres.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As one of the world’s greatest challenges and global disrupters, climate change impacts us all. Tapestry and our brands are responding to the urgent call for collective action and doing our part to mitigate climate-related risks to our business, our people and the communities where we live and work.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 30, 2022

More recently, companies such as Microsoft and Swiss Re have been drawn to CDR as a way to more credibly meet their net-zero goals. As a result, since it does not physically undo the emissions of the purchaser, there is no quantity of traditional offsets that can, at scale, get the world to net-zero.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Founded in 2017, the Transition Pathway Initiative is a global initiative led by asset owners and supported by asset managers that assesses companies’ preparedness for the transition to a low-carbon economy and supports efforts to address climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

announces its plans to accelerate its commitment to combat climate change with a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and supply chain (Scope 3) by 2040 in accordance with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As Greta Thunberg so pithily observed at #DigitalDavos, instead of corporate blather about " hypothetical targets and net-zero loopholes ," we need every cent going in a new direction as we crawl out of the pandemic economic crisis. He wants us to embrace the opportunity of climate change and investing; climate risk is investment risk.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 14, 2024

When the New Orleans City Council debated a proposal for a $210 million gas-fired power plant in 2017, something felt off about the public meetings in City Hall. Pennsylvania has been identified as the state with the fifth-most solar capacity by 2050, according to Princeton’s modeling for how the country could reach net-zero emissions. “In

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Net zero offers ‘huge economic development opportunity’ for Scotland. A new report suggests immediate action aimed at achieving net zero carbon can still offer a significant economic opportunity for Scotland – and the transport sector is “hugely optimistic” about the country’s prospects of decarbonisation.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 17, 2024

Phasing out fossil fuels is key to cutting emissions and fighting climate change. But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 24, 2023

In August of that same year, reinsurance company Munich Re published a report on the devastating impacts of recent floods, warning of the risks of climate change. It’s the result of rapidly increasing underwriting losses to climate-driven events that insurers and reinsurers are seeing worldwide.” In Canada, that year saw $2.1

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Corporate Knights

JULY 19, 2024

Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts. C, as agreed upon in the Paris Agreement , countries must reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions 45 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach . Secured over S$3 billion of sustainable financing since 2017. Decarbonising and Innovating towards a Net Zero Future .

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach. Secured over S$3 billion of sustainable financing since 2017. Decarbonising and Innovating towards a Net Zero Future. SOURCE: 3BL Alerts.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s impossible not to see and feel the impacts of climate change when you’re in the thick of it in the day-to-day, and we all are now,” says Steele, who was born and raised in British Columbia, where deadly heat domes, atmospheric rivers and record-breaking wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 11, 2022

DESCRIPTION: MSCI has selected Schneider Electric to develop and help implement the company’s own climate action program. Schneider Electric’s climate change advisory services to be powered by MSCI ESG data. SOURCE: Schneider Electric. LOUISVILLE, Ky.,

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among 550 Hong Kong-listed companies, Lenovo received the strongest score in the IT industry for its environmental achievements, which have also been recognized by CDP for leadership in climate change and supplier engagement. 

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2024

This year’s list, compiled by the Financial Times and market research company Statista, recognizes European businesses whose Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity fell the most between 2017 and 2022. Trane Technologies is uniquely positioned to lead the movement to tackle climate change and empower its customers to decarbonize.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

A group of nearly 300 financial institutions representing almost $29 trillion in assets are urging some of the world’s highest impact companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Caterpillar, to disclose environmental data on themes including climate change, water and forests, through the CDP environmental disclosure platform.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2022

More than 4,500 suppliers globally are engaged in Project Gigaton™ and as of 2021, those suppliers report having reduced or avoided a cumulative 574 million metric tons of carbon emissions since 2017 by adopting various sustainability strategies. . Moreover, Ørsted provides energy products to its customers. billion (EUR 10.4 billion).

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 22, 2024

Montreal is a famously climate-conscious big city. Mayor Valérie Plante, a reform-minded progressive who’s held office since 2017, has pushed hard to build separated bike lanes, plant thousands of trees and designate pedestrian-only zones. Everything about the city now has to [be seen through] this lens – what about climate change?”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Elsa Wenzel.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Climate-focused investor engagement initiative Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) announced today the results of the most recent round of Net Zero Company Benchmark assessments, examining the emissions reduction goals, decarbonization strategies and climate disclosure practices of the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting companies.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Lenovo supports a science-based approach to mitigating the impacts of climate change and is SBTi to ensure credibility in their work to mitigate climate change. SBTi created the first ever science-based Net-Zero Standard for emissions reduction, to establish meaningful goals to measure the journey towards net-zero.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To blunt the worst health and economic harms of climate change, the world needs more governments to step up and stick to their pledges – and end fossil fuel subsidies. Despite increased support for fossil fuels in 2022, the share of G-20 fossil-fuel support allocated to coal is slowly shrinking – from 8% in 2017, to 2% in 2022.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

Being almost half flour and half milk and butter, the humble pastry is also at the heart of the challenge France faces in meeting its 2030 climate targets, let alone getting to net-zero emissions by 2050. Decarbonizing agriculture means overhauling a massive industry. But it will take a few years to see results.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

These things go hand in hand, as they absolutely need to so we can all reach Net Zero. Other fantastic speakers at the Techonomy event were Katica Roy, Gender Economist and CEO of Pipeline Equity, who spoke about gender equity and its importance in climate action which was incredibly enlightening. Business Playbook v.2.0.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

While some argue banking on a technology in its infancy could undermine the climate transition, policymakers cannot turn their backs on supporting the growth of CCUS. Reaching net zero by 2050 means deploying future technologies to store and remove the harder-to-abate emissions we can’t address today.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. It is only then the industry will shift its approach, and we can move towards net zero carbon emissions. The time for action is now!

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3BL Media

MARCH 9, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The global climate is an enormously complex system, and as climate change intensifies, damaging climate events are cascading from one another. Getting a better handle on climate science can sharpen these tools. By Sara Rosner - Director, Environmental Research and Engagement—Responsible Investment.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2024

DAC technology, listed by the IEA as a key carbon removal option in the transition to a net-zero energy system, extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere for use as a raw material or permanent removal when combined with storage. Jan Wurzbacher, Co-founder and Co-CEO said: “Climeworks has always been committed to technology leadership.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 14, 2024

Founded in 2017, Tampere, Finland-based Collo provides solutions aimed at enabling real-time measurement for optimizing industrial liquid for manufacturers, helping users better understand and develop their liquid processes, supporting cost savings in addition to reduced waste and lower emissions.

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