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Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments

GreenBiz

Tue, 11/24/2020 - 00:40. Building on previous commitments that increase green investments or restrict financing to certain high-emitting activities, recent pledges add to growing evidence that banks are taking a more holistic approach to the climate emergency. They won’t have changed their business model. degree Celsius world.

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New Report Highlights MetLife's Integrated Strategy To Build a More Sustainable Future

3BL Media

In the report, MetLife also provides information on its commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the company’s global operations and general account investment portfolio by 2050 or sooner.[1] The net zero commitment applies to GHG emissions from MetLife, Inc.’s In 2022, MetLife, Inc.

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Canadian pension funds are starting to embrace the green transition

Corporate Knights

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets. trillion at the end of 2020.

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The crypto industry was supposed to decarbonize by 2025 - how’s that going?

Corporate Knights

Cryptocurrencies have been condemned over their environmental record at a time when traditional investments have been rapidly moving towards greener environmental, social and governance (ESG) values. So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials?

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Asian Investors Embrace Net Zero Commitments

Chris Hall

Portfolio-wide commitments to net zero emissions have surged among Asian investors, according to a new study from The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). A total of 40% of survey respondents had committed to net zero emissions, compared with none the previous year.

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. 100 billion green investment.

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Green taxonomy proposal may overcome Canada's climate finance impasse

Corporate Knights

The SFAC compiled the report after it assumed responsibility for creating a green taxonomy after the Canadian Standards Association, a non-profit industry body, failed to reach consensus among fossil-fuel and investment-industry representatives in 2020. There is another potential loophole in the report.