Corporate Knights

AUGUST 12, 2022

Yet the footprint of flying hasn’t slowed global demand for ecotourism , which was estimated to generate about US$180 billion in 2019, with revenue expected to almost double by the end of the decade. In the green building industry, net-zero is a building that produces as much energy as it uses.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

The world’s biggest meat-packers have announced net-zero targets, as the industry tries to reassure the public that despite the urgency of the climate emergency, there’s no need to cut back on our burgers and steaks. The practice of branding meat as climate-friendly isn’t new. It’s possible.” JBS denied the allegations.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between 2008 and 2016, the five biggest oil companies (ExxonMobil, BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips) collectively spent an average of US$217 million on advertising annually, a sixfold increase from two decades earlier, according to a 2019 paper in the journal Climatic Change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. Real leadership means setting the aviation sector on a path toward net-zero climate impacts as swiftly as possible. aviation sector to achieve a 35 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2035 and net zero emissions by 2050.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. reduction in CO2 emissions versus 2019, setting a course for 2.1-2.8°C After the sound , fury and compromises, what will investors remember COP28 for? The official verdict was clear.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

bank to commit to net-zero emissions generated from its financing activities by 2050. . Last year on the eve of Climate Week 2019, employees from big tech companies planned a walkout , demanding their employers take climate seriously across operations. Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

The report states: “Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to rise during the period 2010–2019, as have cumulative net CO2 emissions since 1850. Average annual GHG emissions during 2010-2019 were higher than in any previous decade.” . Authentic net zero plans . Greater collaboration .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Code of conduct for ESG ratings and data providers, grant schemes for transition bonds and loans, and ISSB-aligned disclosures included in action plan. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a net zero transition financing plan as part of the city-state’s climate and sustainability agenda.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Since 2019, that slogan has been a rallying cry for the music industry. Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. “No Music on a Dead Planet.”. Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Julien Beaulieu 29, Gatineau, QC law lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke Almost half the world’s largest corporations have pledged to go net-zero, but far too many of them are “climate-washing,” Julien Beaulieu says. Robert Raynor 27, Toronto net-zero coordinator, TAS Toronto, like many Canadian cities, is in a housing crisis.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Transition” refers to activities that do not meet the green thresholds now but are on a pathway to net zero or contributing to net zero outcomes. The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Reaching net zero by 2050 means deploying future technologies to store and remove the harder-to-abate emissions we can’t address today. Or is it one of the low-carbon technologies that will be required to reach net zero? One of these technologies is carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

If airlines are to meet their net-zero commitments by 2050 – a goal set in 2021 by the industry’s trade association, the International Air Transport Association – they will have to find a substitute for fossil fuels fairly quickly. A lot of the time, it has been in the news for reasons that make management cringe.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The commitment was announced today with the introduction of an updated Green Finance Strategy by Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, part of the government’s launch today of its “Powering Up Britain” plan outlining initiatives to achieve the UK’s energy security and net zero objectives.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

So let’s set the record straight: these shareholder resolutions call for banks to adopt responsible guardrails for transition financing, and to insure against both greenwashing and over-exposure to risky lending practices. US and Canadian banks need to get on board.

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ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Factors previously outlined by Moody’s as key drivers of the 2023 growth include an increase in corporate issuers looking to finance their net zero ambitions, particularly in carbon intensive sectors, a more supportive policy environment, such as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. trillion in 2021. While the U.S.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

Alexander True, Business Partner at Sarasin, offers seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. With this in mind, we have put together a shortlist of seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. The post Seven Ways to Spot Greenwashing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019. But as far back as 2019, it was not certain that LNG exports would replace coal, rather than being used side by side and delaying clean energy alternatives. I think we’ve got to be very careful about the LNG argument,” he told the Globe and Mail.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Raised by two environmentalists, she’s dedicated to ensuring women have equal opportunity to succeed in our net-zero future. Last year, Folino’s firm made a commitment to make its operations and assets under management net-zero by 2050 or earlier – a challenge he’s embracing with open arms. trillion in coal.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain). 2022 Sustainability Summary. Source VBA.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

To achieve this goal, participants agreed that GHG emissions must be halved by 2030 and fall to “net-zero”—meaning that emissions still being generated are offset by reduction of the same amount elsewhere—by 2050. 2°C reduction target, on the way to achieving science-based net zero targets by 2050. Net-zero targets.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Thus, SLBs—more than most other ESG-labeled bonds—need close watching for potential greenwashing, the practice of a company misleading investors about its commitments to environmental improvement. In our analysis, this suggests a greater risk for greenwashing among SLBs.

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Sustainability Matters

AUGUST 16, 2023

In our Net Zero Readiness report released this year, which surveyed Australian businesses, it was revealed that 85% of Australian companies mentioned a lack of internal talent/decarbonisation specialists was a major barrier to decarbonisation initiatives. However, while it’s difficult it’s also necessary, and certainly achievable.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2024

However, carbon markets participants have recently had to develop more rigorous practices following widespread accusations of greenwashing and limited positive environmental impact. It’s going to be good for carbon markets if it allows more carbon credits to be used for corporates on their pathway to net zero,” said Hewitt.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

To achieve the Agreement’s goal of net-zero emissions globally by 2050 , we must significantly boost energy efficiency and greatly accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels, and toward new fuels such as green hydrogen and renewables such as wind, solar and thermal.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

On 9-10 December, 2019 in Madrid, Spain alongside the UNFCCC COP25 , the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) entitled “Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Below is a summary of the discussions and key recommendations for achieving net zero emissions by mid-century.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ESG investing has had to overcome numerous challenges, ranging from investor caution to multiple cases of greenwashing. Around 270 asset managers have committed to reducing GHG emissions by tracking carbon intensity as part of their membership of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. and the UK rate at 9.9%.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In 2019, University of Chicago researchers analysed the Morningstar sustainability ratings of more than 20,000 mutual funds collectively representing US$8 trillion. A 2022 PwC report noted that investors globally are expected to increase their ESG-related assets under management across mandates, mutual funds and private markets to US$33.9

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the statement it referred to metallurgical coal as “carbon steel materials”, drawing accusations of greenwashing. By 2035, it has committed to halve its Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions from a 2019 baseline, with goals to hit net zero by 2050. Spinning off the coal business would have made this target much easier to reach.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

“We might expect some decrease because Chubb announced its new underwriting restrictions for conservation areas and a programme to stop methane leaks and flaring, but that’s not the same as quantifying emissions and contemplating a net zero goal,” she told ESG Investor. And frankly is greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Dutch court reiterated oil and gas major’s legal obligation to meet net zero, but short-term progress requires investor pressure.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), US$4 trillion needs to be invested in renewable energy globally every year by 2030 to achieve net zero by 2050. Announced by Guterres in Glasgow, the UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities?arrived The finance sector .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Much of the required fund-raising will be realised through sustainable bonds, said Moody’s, due to a post-pandemic focus on investment to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and major governments’ pursuit of net zero CO2 emissions targets. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 Transition challenges.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Responsible investment opportunities received a further boost earlier this year with the election of a new government committed to transitioning Australia toward a low-carbon economy in line with an accelerated net zero pathway. which has now been approved by federal parliament. Thematic variations.

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Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

In August 2019, the Business Roundtable, whose members are CEOs of America’s largest companies, changed its definition of the purpose of a corporation, shifting from “shareholder primacy” to a “commitment to all stakeholders”. . Since its recent resurgence, stakeholder capitalism has had a short honeymoon. Now the knives are out. .

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