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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates

GreenBiz

Vital reading, particularly in a year that should see Glasgow hosting the COP26 climate summit. But if I could propose one additional New Year’s resolution for Gates, it would be to send another book to all COP26 delegates: Kim Stanley Robinson’s " The Ministry for the Future.".

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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century

GreenBiz

The bank, currently Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, has committed to reaching net-zero across its supply chain and operations by 2030, before reaching net-zero across its customer portfolio 20 years later.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

A spokesperson from IKEA stressed that ocean shipping made up 40 percent of the carbon footprint of its supply chain operations and therefore the company's pledge to reduce the carbon footprint of all transport by an average of 70 percent by 2030 compared to 2017 was a "huge ambition." As the U.K.

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Call for Investors to Tackle Timber, Pulp Inertia

Chris Hall

in 2017, when the assessments began. Changing the narrative In light of the findings evidenced through the SPOTT assessment, which marked a decade of ZLS’s efforts to advance public disclosure in soft commodity supply chains , the charity encouraged the sector and its investors to take action to modify the landscape.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: London Stock Exchange Consults on VCM

Chris Hall

The London Stock Exchange has published a public consultation on the market rules for its planned voluntary carbon market, first announced at COP26 last November, which will provide access to publicly traded carbon funds focused on investing in climate mitigation projects.

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Materials innovation and sustainability: 2021 business opportunities

Tobias Webb

In 2017, Unilever promised that its plastic packaging would contain at least 25% post-consumer resin recycled plastic by 2025. Cost implications for supply chain. Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb pointed out that all of this has cost implications for companies along the value chain.

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Get ready, Corporate America: The carbon disclosure mandates are coming

GreenBiz

The TCFD, created by the G20 Financial Stability Board, issued its disclosure recommendations back 2017. Adding to the challenge is the Scope 3 problem: accounting for the carbon generated upstream (across the supply chain, for example) and downstream (products).