Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Banks are shelling out more than US$500 billion a year to finance the largest contributors to climate change in the Global South, a region that is especially vulnerable to the roiling weather disasters gripping the planet. Together, that amounts to an average of $513 billion a year – or more than 20 times the $22.5

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Mon, 10/12/2020 - 00:15. The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. If 2020 has shown us anything it is the interconnectedness of the challenges that we face. Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact. Heather Clancy. Is your CEO personally committed?

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2024

International Olympic Committee news This will enable the IOC to engage more effectively with the global efforts to address climate change, underscoring its commitment to reducing emissions and to leveraging the role of sport as an “important enabler” for the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “We

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Join us for a conversation about the power of companies (big and small) coming together to tackle the climate crisis, and hear why Global Optimism and Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a bold commitment to become net zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. . Thu, 08/20/2020 - 08:42.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fri, 12/11/2020 - 01:45. billion in alternative proteins during 2020, according to the latest data from the Good Food Institute. When experts at CDP, a nonprofit that tracks sustainability commitments, surveyed 479 food and ag companies , only 75 reported having emissions commitments in line with the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:10. are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”. Whether they’re doing so and backing it up with action is a different issue.”.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:45. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Thu, 12/17/2020 - 00:20. From a climate change perspective, steelmaking is considered one of the "hard-to-abate" sectors. Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness.

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3BL Media

JULY 24, 2023

Originally published in Paramount's 2021-2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report The impacts of climate change continue to accelerate around the world and are projected to worsen each year unless we take serious collective action on a global scale. This is likely because they rebounded from 2020 lows.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 00:30. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. And mature mangroves can store nearly 1,000 tons of carbon per hectare, thus mitigating climate change while also helping communities adapt. Jonathan Cook.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change. "I Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

APRIL 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Society must move more forcefully to combat global warming, the world’s top climate scientists warned Monday in a new report that says existing solutions and innovation offer hope—but not without action. KEYWORDS: NYSE:ENB, Enbridge, climate change.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 16, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As the world’s population grows and more people are lifted out of poverty, society faces a dual challenge—meeting the increasing global need for affordable, reliable energy, while reducing GHG emissions to address the pressing threat of climate change. KEYWORDS: NYSE:ENB, Enbridge, climate change, Net Zero Emissions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15. bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Michael Holder.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Mon, 09/28/2020 - 00:00. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is helping to bring transparency to climate risk throughout capital markets, with the aim of making markets more efficient and economies more stable and resilient. . Seven ways to inform better decisions with TCFD reporting. Steven Bullock.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking is based on 155 ESG factors in eight pillars: climate change, employee relations, environment, finance, governance, human rights, stakeholders and society, and ESG performance. Newsweek’s America’s Most Responsible Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020. Fortune, Change the World List: 2020, 2019.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Thu, 12/10/2020 - 01:00. The common denominator underlying these ventures is blockchain, a digital ledger technology used for dozens of intriguing corporate applications intended to address climate change — from tracing ingredients across supply chains to verifying, purchasing and trading carbon credits. . Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments. Tue, 11/24/2020 - 00:40. Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. They won’t have changed their business model. Whitney Mann.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

DESCRIPTION: Talk of progression and urgent solutions reverberated throughout the COP27 crowd, during the long-drawn-out summit, as leaders made a desperate bid to clinch climate deals. degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels) as outlined in the landmark Paris Agreement, through a collection of decisions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The exclusion means the UK will fail in its obligations under the Paris Agreement and instead has concentrated on the need to achieve net zero by 2050. The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05. December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. Ateli Iyalla.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45. This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action? Fri, 09/25/2020 - 01:00. It’s Climate Week: the time of year that climate leaders and professionals usually descend upon New York City in a cloud of transportation emissions to talk climate ambitions and targets. . Sarah Golden.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

It could also delay investments needed to help mitigate the impact of climate change.”. C above pre-industrial levels – and tying compensation to progress on meeting the climate goals. Climate impacts are now material to investors and [are] set to become even more so,” it says.

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ESG Today

MARCH 28, 2023

The new strategy will invest in fixed-income instruments selected according to the AIIB-Amundi Climate Change Investment Framework (CCIF). The post Amundi Appointed Investment Manager of $200 Million Climate Bond Strategy for AMX by Carne appeared first on ESG Today.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon. On the face of it, it is.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. Loss and Damage’ Fund Agreement. Mitigation Work Program’ Development. degrees celsius.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity. However, the risks from biodiversity loss are enormous.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ve chipped away at draft-causing gaps over the years, but given, well, climate change, we needed to go a big step further and significantly cut our natural gas consumption. My wife and I live in a 110-year-old semi-detached house in midtown Toronto. Like many homes across the country, the walls are brick and thus uninsulated.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. "The Climate Strategy. Michael Holder. BusinessGreen.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. The Institute for Sustainable Communities , which advances equitable community solutions to climate change, has appointed Deeohn Ferris as president and CEO.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right. Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:30. Since then, the asset manager backed two proposals at the annual general meetings of both Chevron and Exxon, related to the manner these companies conduct themselves in relation to Paris Agreement targets. Paolo Natali.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The global goal for developed nations mobilize $100 billion in climate finance to their developing nation counterparts to mitigate and adapt to climate change is expected to be met in 2023, and surpassed in following years, according to a new report released by Canada and Germany ahead of the COP27 climate conference.

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