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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

Despite this significant drop from 2019 to 2020, the overall trend of the last five years is one heading definitively in the wrong direction," the report states. trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. and Canadian cities.

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T-Mobile Commits to Net Zero Emissions Across the Value Chain

ESG Today

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. Wireless network operator T-Mobile U.S. According to the company, the move makes T-Mobile the first U.S.

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JetBlue Announces Science-Based Emissions Reduction Target and Strategy To Achieve Net Zero by 2040

3BL Media

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. In 2019, JetBlue rolled out the largest electric fleet of any carrier at John F. SOURCE: JetBlue Airways.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. power generation at 41%, though its 2019-2020 growth was slower than 2018-19.

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Embracing the suck

Envirotec Magazine

As the slipping of climate targets continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that cutting emissions won’t be enough to keep global temperature increases below the 2ºC target enshrined by the 2015 Paris agreement. Is it happening? In September, the Washington-based Energy Futures Initiative , founded by former U.S.

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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

Namibia is committing an additional US$5 million towards ocean research and protection over 2019/2020. The Pew Charitable Trusts is launching a 3-year initiative to support countries to incorporate coastal wetlands and coral reefs into their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.