GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. It is a big business. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. spent almost $1.4

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3BL Media

JULY 9, 2024

Download the Schneider Electric™ Sustainability Research Institute report Buildings are today responsible for 37% of emissions when considering both direct and indirect emissions (United Nations Environment Programme, 2022), and should be at the core of decarbonization policies worldwide.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 27, 2022

leaders this week introduced to employees a new strategy to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality impacts of its products, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 in a sustainable way. The global power leader’s Destination Zero strategy unveiled Jan. Destination Zero builds on PLANET 2050. SOURCE: Cummins Inc.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Countdown to 2045: Realizing California's Pathway to Net Zero updates and expands Southern California Edison's 2019 analysis, Pathway 2045. COUNTDOWN TO 2045 WHITE PAPER APPENDIX COUNTDOWN TO 2045 FACT SHEET One-page overview of the most feasible and affordable solutions to meet California’s ambitious net-zero goal.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2022

The UK government announced the launch of its “Jet Zero” strategy today, outlining its plan to achieve net zero aviation by 2050. Unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow, the plan includes commitments to achieve net zero domestic aviation and for the country’s airports to be zero-emissions by 2040.

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Voters in Switzerland approved the country’s commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, with 59% backing the Climate and Innovation Act in a national referendum on Sunday. The law also includes a requirement for all companies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. billion (USD$3.6

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

Taking action to achieve Net Zero right now is more important than ever, as we only have a narrow window of opportunity to keep the increase in temperature within 1.5?C. The industry has made a commitment to reach net zero by 2050 at the latest. Now is the time to act and realize a Net Zero ambition.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 2, 2023

Globally, emissions need to decrease by 4% every year if we’re going to reach net-zero by 2050. But in reality, emissions rebounded in 2021 and grew again in 2022 by 0.9%, reaching an all-time high of more than 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. China’s emissions in 2022 were 6.5%

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

In order to be on track to deliver on their most recent climate pledges, G7 and BRICS countries needed to reduce their carbon emissions by 822 million tonnes in 2019, the most recent year for which countries have reported. Most targets laid out by governments and corporations involve reaching net-zero by a date decades in the future.

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2022

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a series of new climate commitments, including goals to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) by 2040 and to achieve emissions reductions of 95% in its operations and 90% in its value chain by that date. Pfizer’s new goals include the achievement of the Net Zero Standard.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

Computer manufacturer Lenovo announced today a goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. The commitment, covering the companies’ full value chain, and has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as aligned with its net zero standard.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Swedish industrial products manufacturer Alfa Laval announced plans to achieve its key interim climate goals ahead of schedule, accelerating its efforts to achieve net zero goals for scope 1 and 2 emissions, and to reduce scope 3 emissions by 50% by 2027, three years earlier than previously announced.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite progress on scaling up low carbon energy production and industrial technologies, significant barriers remain in the way of the global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and to limit temperature rise 1.5°C,

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ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank and financial regulator of Singapore, announced today the launch of the Finance for Net Zero (FiNZ) Action Plan, updating its series of strategies to mobilize financing aimed at catalyzing the net zero transition in Asia, and decarbonization activities in Singapore.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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ESG Today

JULY 3, 2024

Global energy and electricity provider Iberdrola announced today the acquisition of decarbonization solution provider Balantia, purchasing the 80% stake in the company that it did not already control, alongside plans to co-launch a new platform to help companies accelerate their emissions reduction initiatives.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Investors targeting net zero portfolio emissions as part of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) will no longer be able to utilize carbon removals as a method to reach their alliance-aligned goals, according to new rules released by the organization. We show that working towards net zero is possible.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Deutsche Bank announced the publication of its initial Transition Plan, outlining the bank’s methodologies, targets and achievements on its path to net-zero by 2050, across its own operations and supply chain, as well as financed emissions. This will allow us to continuously refine our own Transition Plan.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

Trade group with oversight on “the cornerstone material for a net-zero future ” sets out “ambitious plans” to reach net zero in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050, and significantly cut Scope 3 emissions. Estimates as to how much copper will be required for the energy transition appear to vary widely.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

announced today a new target to achieve net zero carbon emissions across its entire value chain by 2040, including those produced by suppliers and through customer device usage, in addition to the company’s own operations. The post T-Mobile Commits to Net Zero Emissions Across the Value Chain appeared first on ESG Today.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 17, 2024

The Greens, who lost 19 seats to return to their pre-2019 size, also look likely to support the conservative EPP, ensuring a comfortable majority. and China are the more appealing destinations for net-zero industries.” This is the most cost-effective way to ensure energy security, autonomy, competitiveness and decarbonization.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2019, the company set about bolstering its framework by adopting specific goals and metrics to track progress. In the meantime, we are still pursuing Scope 3 emissions-reduction initiatives that provide low- and net-zero-carbon solutions for our customers. We can’t eliminate these shortages, but we can alleviate them.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

As of May 2022, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (an international group of asset managers committed to net-zero) had grown to 273 investors who collectively manage US$61.3 In 2019, TPG announced an investment in Cibus, a plant-based food company that uses biotechnology to develop sustainable food products.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The report, released last week, forecasts a rapid job shift in the energy sector as decarbonization and net-zero targets push new renewable energy projects online. Overall, the energy sector employed more than 65 million people in 2019, roughly 2% of the entire global work force.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. The company is aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its global operations by 2040. It has more than 50 manufacturing and research facilities globally and in 2019, it made $15.7 Most of the time, plastic.

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ESG Today

JUNE 30, 2023

Insurance group AXA announced today a series of decarbonization targets for its investment and insurance activities, including goals to reduce emissions of its largest commercial insurance clients by 30% and to cut the carbon footprint of the group’s general account investment assets by 50% by 2030, on a 2019 basis.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 10, 2023

A Decarbonization Journey With Neiman Marcus Group. Despite these constraints, some retailers are finding ways to manage company growth and start down a path of decarbonization. Despite these constraints, some retailers are finding ways to manage company growth and start down a path of decarbonization. Tue, 01/10/2023 - 12:00.

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3BL Media

JUNE 15, 2022

McKinsey’s fourth annual report shares progress on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities and efforts to catalyze decarbonization, build inclusive communities and workforces, and set the standard for our profession. SOURCE: McKinsey & Company. C-degree pathway.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 29, 2022

In Canada, “emissions from Canadian airlines increased by 75% between 2005 and 2019 to over 22 million tonnes a year; equivalent to the emissions from five million passenger vehicles,” Adamson and Vipond say. Our approach for decarbonizing aviation will focus on the rapid development of technologies,” the Jet Zero authors say. “Our

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

TD Bank Group announced a series of new ESG and sustainable finance-focused measures today, including a goal to facilitate CAD$500 billion (USD$364 billion) in sustainable and decarbonization finance by 2030. The post TD Launches $500 Billion Sustainable & Decarbonization Finance Target appeared first on ESG Today.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. How then to make the shift to a net-zero, nature-positive economy within the decade? We are now able to start reaping the early rewards of this harvest.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A group of carbon market and removal-focused organizations* announced the publication of an open letter to the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA), calling on the investor group to affirm its support for carbon removal technologies, after disallowing their use in its members’ climate goals. Click here to access the open letter.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stockholm-based banking group Swedbank unveiled new decarbonization targets for its lending portfolio with aims to reduce emissions in five key corporate sectors – including mortgages, commercial real estate, oil & gas, power generation and steel – by 2030. Swedbank said that the targets have been sent to SBTi for validation.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

B2B travel platform American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) announced the launch of a new integrated emissions-based carbon pricing tool, enabling users to track the carbon emissions specific to their flights, and direct investment towards decarbonization initiatives. We need to combine carbon pricing with decarbonization.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Would it be to lead by example – show a measured and steady path to net-zero by 2050 with meaningful interim targets, something the rest of the industry could relate to – or a more radical all-in approach that might be difficult for other peers to identify with?

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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. Tiffany & Co.’s

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Net Zero by 2040 SEE has committed to achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 across its operations (Scopes 1 and 2). Since the development of our net-zero road map in 2021, SEE has initiated five sustainability workstreams with clear objectives that are designed to achieve our ambitious commitment.

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