GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02. billion company’s new commitment to achieve net-zero status for its own operations by the end of this decade. . Heather Clancy. So far, it has delivered about $335 million.). Corporate Strategy. Carbon Removal.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2022

More than a third of the world's largest companies now have net-zero targets, up from one-fifth in December 2020, according to the latest edition of the Net Zero Tracker

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New data shows Victoria beat its 2020 emissions reduction target by nearly 10%. Separate modelling says that, on this trajectory, it could reach net-zero 16 years early. The post Victoria urged to shoot for net-zero by 2034, after 2020 emissions target “smashed” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

behind net-zero plan. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00. billion over the next five years to meet its net-zero by 2050 aspirations. Nestlé digs deeper into regenerative ag, puts $3.6B Heather Clancy. The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, last week said it plans to spend roughly $3.6

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. Consider this: In April, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world, announced its intent to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. Hunter Lovins. We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. Is that possible?

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With the long-term goal of net zero in mind, it may be tempting for investors to focus on capitalizing ESG trailblazers over ESG laggards. Engaging for Net Zero. By 2040, the company aims to be net zero and expects their carbon management business will overtake their traditional business.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

How Tetra Pak plans to reach net zero by 2030. Now the company is working to further improve its sustainability efforts by committing to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2030 and across its entire value chain by 2050. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 14:07. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

Who are net-zero leaders and laggards in food? VERGE Net Zero takes place July 27-28 and is free to attend. In 2020, the company reported a $700 million operating profit on earnings of more than $5.5 Bunge, a major soybean trader that employs 25,000 people, reported net income of $1 billion in 2020.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Dairy Management Inc’s Krysta Harden on the dairy industry’s net zero initiatives. Our net zero initiative is part of our overreaching environmental goals set by our industry. during the VERGE 20 virtual event (October 26-30, 2020). Thu, 12/10/2020 - 09:25. This video is sponsored by Dairy Management Inc.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Wed, 07/08/2020 - 08:00. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Despite this pressure, there is precious little guidance or best practices to guide a company who is just approaching this work for the first time, or those struggling to convince the C suite that carbon reduction goals are now just table stakes en route to a net zero science based target. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 21:35. taylor flores.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

HSBC announced today the launch of its first Net Zero Transition Plan, outlining the global bank’s strategy to finance and support the transition to net zero, and to meet the climate goals it has set over the past few years. Click here to access the HSBC Net Zero Transition Plan.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Net Zero goal, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent removal of residual emissions to as close to zero as possible along the entire value chain , is at the heart of the European Green Deal and considered crucial to limiting global warming to well below 2°C in line with the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 12/15/2020 - 01:45. NYU Stern Business School’s 2020 Sustainable Share Market Index shows shares of sustainability-marketed products grew significantly during the week of March 15, and continued to maintain that increased share through mid-June. The biggest driver seems to be net-zero ambitions. Diane Osgood.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Companies and countries all over the world are committing to net-zero goals and pledges to the SDGs; diversity, equity and inclusion goals; human rights — the list goes on. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy. Helle Bank Jorgensen.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

To keep within the remaining carbon budget for 2 degrees C, we have to cut our emissions drastically, reaching net-zero emissions as soon as possible. It shows how we can limit the cumulative amount of greenhouse gases we emit in the future and quickly reach "net-zero" emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00. The deal shows how companies are increasingly paying attention to ways to decarbonize transportation including buying more zero-emission commercial vehicles. Amazon plans eventually to have all of its shipments to customers become net-zero carbon, with 50 percent of all shipments net-zero by 2030.

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Renew Economy

MAY 26, 2022

More than net zero by 2050, science tells us we need 50% emissions reduction from 2020 to 2030. So, how are we going to achieve these targets? The post Four urgent next steps on energy policy for Australia’s 31st prime minister appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. The company closed out 2020 by investing $3 million and hiring 150 employees for its North American headquarters in Charlotte , North Carolina. in early 2020. in early 2020. Photo courtesy of BYD.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00. Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Jeremy Lardeau, vice president Higg Index at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), joined the “Net Zero and Well-Being in Life” virtual workshop jointly organized by the G20 Presidency of India and the G7 Presidency of Japan, and hosted by Boston Consulting Group.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Mon, 06/01/2020 - 00:00. Let’s begin with a few headlines: Southern Company commits to net-zero emissions by 2050. Shell plans to achieve net-zero emissions across its product manufacturing operations. In that case, here are some headlines from May: Total pledges to deliver net-zero operations by mid-century.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Our growing portfolio of zero-carbon resources plays an integral role in helping us meet these objectives. Our greenhouse gas reduction goals are to achieve 50% reduction from 2007 levels by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050, consistent with the commitments of the Paris Agreement.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Dave Carroll, Chief Renewables Officer at Engie North America, said: “We are delighted to announce this agreement to work with Meta by providing renewable power that supports their growth and aligns with their net zero commitments. GW of renewable energy to local grids in the U.S. through its supported wind and solar projects by 2025.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

HSBC announced last week that it will continue to support production in existing fields to provide an “orderly transition” to a net-zero world by 2050. HSBC will maintain its financing and investment in existing oil and gas fields at 2020 levels through 2030 and then reduce it by half by 2050.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:45. The financial services firm recently completed the purchase of the first tranche of reef credits and plans to continue buying them as part of its net-zero commitment. HSBC invests in world’s first ‘reef credit’ system. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. Cecilia Keating. was a relatively small player at the IMO.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Amazon also has committed $100 million to support sustainable forest, wildlife and nature projects in its quest to reach net-zero carbon status by 2040. In April 2020, Amazon announced $10 million for projects across the Appalachian Mountains in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. How is that money being spent?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Mon, 12/14/2020 - 02:11. Although it certainly wasn’t planned, the interviews I conducted during 2020 largely coincided with the aviation sector’s worst downturn in history. Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation? Joel Makower. In some respects, this couldn’t have been a worse time for these conversations.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tue, 11/24/2020 - 00:40. After all, through their product offerings, lending activities and client engagement, financial institutions can play a key role in influencing the transformation necessary for a net-zero emissions economy. What we have given the market is an ambition that our total financing by 2050 will be net zero.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

growth in companies’ net-zero emissions targets. The study, an annual report on the state of corporate purpose that companies use to benchmark their goal setting and disclosures, found companies are adapting very quickly to setting net-zero and carbon-neutrality goals. in 2020, an 18.9% in 2018 to 31.6%

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When Bernard Looney became CEO of BP in 2020, he promised to reinvent the British oil major as a “leaner, faster-moving and lower-carbon company.” The company was one of the first oil majors to commit to being net-zero in 2050 and was showing signs it was open to speeding up its transition to a low-carbon future.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Tue, 09/29/2020 - 01:00. This means aligning corporate ambition with the best available climate science, setting a target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, at the latest, and setting strong interim targets to get there through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Maria Mendiluce. Companies are stepping up.

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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. How about June, when Unilever committed to zeroing-out emissions from all its products by 2039 ? billion over the next five years as it moves toward a 2050 net-zero target?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

And then 2020 happened. To our immense satisfaction, we saw little carnage within corporate sustainability departments during 2020 relative to previous economic downturns, when such functions were often among the first to be downsized or jettisoned. And the year ahead certainly would bring more of the same. Or so we predicted.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wed, 10/07/2020 - 00:15. Tropical Forest Alliance executive director Justin Adams commended the multinational for achieving net-zero deforestation in its palm supply chain, but warned that collective action would be needed to takle problems across the global sector. "It Cecilia Keating.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action.

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