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.” Last week, BP said it will cut its Scope 3 emissions by only 20% to 30% by the end of the decade – a significant reversal from its original 35% to 40% target announced in 2020.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2020, her successor Boris Johnson launched a 10-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. Back then, I wouldn’t have believed that we would come so far in international collaboration on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement,” he said. It’ll be a mess.”

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement. But not all GHG reductions are equal. dollars) through 2030. Top Company Profile. Making the cut. BY Naomi Buck. Read article.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In 2020, a blistering analysis showed Canada leading the G20 countries in per capita public financing to oil and gas. That work was meant to conclude by 2020. billion in 2020/21 and another $1.5 Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. billion for the first nine months of 2021/22.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 25, 2023

It has publicly endorsed the Paris Agreement on climate change as well as the EU’s target of being net-zero by 2050. And its product carbon footprint program, launched in 2020, allows customers to calculate the emissions generated “from cradle to gate” – through extraction, manufacturing and production – for all BASF products.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Almost seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, any number of initiatives have been launched with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C. C – putting the world on track to exceed 2°C by 2050 without significant action by policymakers and corporates.

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