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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

Mon, 12/14/2020 - 02:11. One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral. Although it certainly wasn’t planned, the interviews I conducted during 2020 largely coincided with the aviation sector’s worst downturn in history. Joel Makower. Leisure travel was down even more.

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BeZero Carbon Raises $32 Million to Expand Carbon Credit Rating Platform into New Markets

ESG Today

London-based carbon credit ratings startup BeZero Carbon said it had raised $32 million, with proceeds aimed at enabling the company to expand into new markets, and to grow its capabilities and its team.

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Telstra Ends Use of Carbon Credits to Increase Focus on Decarbonization Projects

ESG Today

That is why we believe redirecting our investments from purchasing carbon credits to taking more direct climate action here in Australia, will help consumers better understand how we are having more direct impact on climate change.”

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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MSCI Acquires Carbon Markets Advisory Trove Research

ESG Today

The acquisition comes as demand for carbon offset projects and related credits is expected to increase significantly over the next several years, as companies and businesses increasingly launch net zero ambitions, and turn to offsets as a bridge to their own absolute emissions reduction efforts, or to balance difficult to avoid emissions.

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Pension Plans Increase Focus on ESG Investing for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

These credits are used to offset emissions and allow the owner to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or greenhouse gases. The voluntary carbon-offset market is rapidly evolving and is expected to grow to around $250 billion by 2050 from only $2 billion in 2020.

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Guest Post – The Road to Decarbonization: How Blockchain Technology Can Accelerate Your Carbon Agenda

ESG Today

However, the scale up will need to be significant—according to estimates from the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM), the voluntary carbon markets will need to grow more than 15-fold by 2030 and 100-fold by 2050 from 2020 levels, to support the investment required to deliver the 1.5 degree pathway.