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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

Heathrow SP Ltd Pursuing low-carbon air travel Flying is notoriously carbon intensive, but Heathrow SP Ltd., the company behind Londons Heathrow Airport, is working on cutting up to 15% carbon in the air by 2030 (using waste-based aviation fuels) and at least 45% carbon on the ground by 2030. and ground carbon by 15%.

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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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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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Here’s How Amazon’s Sustainability Pledge Is Going, 5 Years After Jeff Bezos Promised To ‘Beat The Paris Agreement’

We Mean Business Coalition

Since then over 500 companies have signed on, committing to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Beating the Paris Agreement’ is a huge statement to make. Both Paris and the 2018 IPCC report warned of the catastrophic climate impacts we would see across the world if we do not limit global warming to 1.5°C,

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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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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.