3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. With transparency and accountability as the foundations of ESG investing, it is paramount that sponsors demonstrate that their investments are in fact green and not greenwashed.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was the year that…. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 02:11. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.)

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

trillion in assets in 2020 ( Opimas LLC ). Two events will increase corporate Net-zero programs credibility and separate climate action from pure greenwashing: The launch of the first science-based Net-Zero standard by SBTi. Besides, companies will have to limit the carbon offsetting to a max of 10% of the firm’s emissions.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. To increase carbon removals , the company must promote carbon removals projects, also called carbon sinks, within its operations or in its value chain.

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Chris Hall

MAY 1, 2024

As the fallout continues over the Science Based Targets initiative’s approach to offsets, is the net zero target-setting landscape for corporates fit for purpose? In 2020, a mere 1% of listed companies had a decarbonisation target validated by the organisation. Divided opinion Last year was a challenging one for the VCMs.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

of its revenue on buying offsets in 2020 to compensate as much as 24% of its reported emissions, while Google spent about 0.02% of its revenue in 2021 to offset 18% of its emissions. This is likely to require larger investment than buying offsets. VCMs: Help or hinder?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Mon, 08/10/2020 - 00:15. What a company considers "agroforestry" also can be squishy, she points out — a situation that makes her and other climate advocates worry about companies using the term to "greenwash," or essentially pretend to be environmentally friendly without making substantive change. Stephanie Hanes.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Annual clean energy investment in EMDEs needs to increase by more than seven times, from US$150 billion in 2020 to over US$1 trillion a year by 2030, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report. . The ETA is “not fully baked yet”, Kerry admitted, but there are plans for it to be up and running by COP28 in Dubai. .

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Carbon offsets are ‘riddled with fraud.’ Solving credibility issues may require a greater overhaul of carbon markets. Carbon insetting Business-speak for companies reducing emissions in their own supply chains; an alternative to carbon offsetting. Can new voluntary guidelines fix that?

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