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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday.

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Paris Agreement limits still catastrophic for coral reefs, research suggests

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

More than 90 percent of tropical coral reefs will suffer frequent heat stress -- their number one threat -- even under Paris Agreement climate warming limits.

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Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities

GreenBiz

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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Hero: In coal-heavy Poland, Warsaw takes a stand against fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

The proposed treaty would align fossil fuel production with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C Poland has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing solar energy markets, with capacity soaring from 200 megawatts in 2018 to about 10 gigawatts. California is the latest consider the treaty.

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and has received flak over its failure to come up with a detailed, ambitious plan to decarbonize in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5 The global shipping sector is responsible for around 2.5

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

In 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the three largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions were transportation (28 percent), electricity (27 percent), and industry (22 percent).