Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a Deloitte study pointed out in 2021, “In a world where the speed, volume and complexity of change can threaten to throw organizations off their stride, there is a pressing need for strategic thinkers who can clarify the issues at stake, mobilize their colleagues and orchestrate purposeful change.” Ikea’s sustainability is wide-ranging.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

The report includes new baseline sustainability metrics for 2021, interim targets for 2025, and goals for 2030. In 2021 we shared the results of our first decade of sustainability reporting—with achievements significantly beyond our original aspirations. The challenges of climate change to communities worldwide are significant.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

SUMMARY: Altivar variable speed drives named The Most Climate-positive Carbon Handprint Product. Schneider Electric took first place in the Most Climate-positive Carbon Handprint Product category and secured an honorary certificate in the High Potential Carbon Handprint Innovation category. SOURCE: Schneider Electric.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The new project follows a commitment by Ingka Investments in 2021 to expand its investments in renewable energy to €6.5 The company added that the new project forms part of its commitment to help achieve IKEA’s commitment to become climate positive, reducing more greenhouse gas emissions than its value chain emits, by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 16, 2022

Anna König Jerlmyr wants Stockholm to become the world’s first climate-positive city by 2040 and fossil-fuel free by 2030. One of Jyoti Gondek’s first orders of business after she was elected in 2021 was to pass a motion in city council declaring a climate emergency. Jyoti Gondek. Calgary, Alberta. Valérie Plante.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In 2018, the total GHG baseline emissions covering the whole process of the Beijing 2022 Games were calculated at 1.637 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, which were later revised in June 2021 to 1.306 million t-CO2e. As of June 2021, the 2016-2021 GHG emissions of the Beijing 2022 Games were calculated to be 489,000 t-CO2e.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, in 2021 Nestlé announced its ambition to foster regenerative food systems , in alignment with its commitment to addressing the two-thirds of its greenhouse gas emissions generated from agriculture. In 2021, more than 2 million farmers associated with Better Cotton produced 20% of the global cotton supply.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from production forms a major part of IKEA’s commitment to become climate positive – reducing more emissions than the value chain generates – by 2030, with supply chain emissions account for nearly two thirds of IKEA’s climate footprint.

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American Clean Power

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When given the opportunity to sponsor ACP’s CLEANPOWER 2021 Community Service Project it was an easy decision for us. Our philanthropic mission at Hannon Armstrong is to accelerate a just transition toward an equitable, inclusive and climate positive future.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Visa introduced the Eco Benefits package in 2021 , available initially in Europe. The rollout followed a pledge by the company to become “Climate Positive” , with plans to launch initiatives to support sustainable commerce and the transition to a low-carbon economy beyond the company’s own footprint.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project is a key milestone in the IOC’s commitment to becoming climate positive in 2024. Since the Olympic Forest was announced in June 2021, National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have expressed an interest in expanding it through similar projects in their own countries, creating a network of Olympic Forests.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

An estimated 8,000 tons of virgin plastic was eliminated in Logitech products in 2021, reducing the overall demand for plastic derived from petrochemicals and transforming e-waste into a valuable resource. Learn more about all of Logitech’s sustainability initiatives in the 2021 Sustainability report or on the website. About Logitech.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

November’s COP26 conference saw several countries make national commitments to fight climate change: More than 130 countries pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and the destruction of land by 2030, and more than 100 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge to collectively cut emissions by 30 percent before this decade comes to a close.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The event, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable: Maximize Infrastructure Investments for Our Climate, Energy, and Economy, was hosted at the Eaton Experience Center — Pittsburgh and organized by the sustainability nonprofit Ceres.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The agreement marks the latest in a series of DAC purchases for BCG, including a 5-year, 40,000 ton deal announced earlier this year with DAC company CarbonCapture, and an initial agreement with Climeworks in 2021. commitment to achieve net zero climate impact by 2030. commitment to achieve net zero climate impact by 2030.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2023

Third, we recognize that recent acquisitions – including Direct Energy in 2021 and Vivint Smart Home in 2023 – have broadened NRG’s business activities beyond electricity generation. In 2022, however, our GHG emissions increased relative to 2021, driven by increased generation, which in turn was driven by power market conditions and weather.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

According to the Beijing 2022 pre-Games Sustainability Report , the total water demand of the Yanqing Zone during Games time (November 2021 to March 2022) is estimated at about 890,000 cubic metres, accounting for 0.4 The water demand of the Zhangjiakou Zone during Games time (November 2021 to March 2022) is 1.9

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Just Capital

APRIL 22, 2022

Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change. C Science Based Target in 2019 and Intuit’s next goal is a “climate-positive” one – aiming to reduce global emissions by 50x from its 2018 operational footprint over the next decade. The company set a verified 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As of year-end 2021, the asset owner has achieved its 2016 30% decarbonisation target for equity investments, according to Varma’s financial statement. Climate-positive allocations accounted for 18.2% of Varma’s total investment portfolio in 2021, the statement said, compared to 12.4% the previous year. Getting active.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Such investment is a key element of the Coalition’s Forest Positive Approach , a set of actions that Coalition members are committed to implementing in their own supply chains through commodity-specific KPI reporting and, in collaboration with their upstream supply chain partners, in businesses and production landscapes across the value chain.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“We are proud to partner with Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US for T Challenge, another milestone in our shared Web3 journey that began in April 2021,” said Rene Rheinsberg, Celo Co-Founder and Celo Foundation President.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2020, the largest sub-category in the climate funds market was clean energy/tech, which slipped to third last year ahead of low carbon and green bond funds. . Morningstar said the shifts seen in 2021 reflected growing investor interest in opportunities beyond the renewable energy sector. . Carbon intensity .

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CREA

AUGUST 10, 2023

Toronto, Ontario, August 10, 2023— CanREA joined Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada Steven Guilbeault for the announcement of the Federal Government’s new draft Clean Electricity Regulations today. “In Task #1 called on Canada to put in place foundational measures to enable the decarbonization of electricity production by 2035.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2024

Growing opportunities Established 19 years ago to address the need to improve the quality of forestry management in Australia, New Forests’ expansion into Africa in 2021 was driven by several reasons. “At However, investors need reassurance as to how these countries will use the funds to counter climate change.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

Further, a recent report published by the NGO Climate Bonds Initiative highlighted that increased investment in green, social and sustainability debt could serve as a key channel for investors looking to support climate adaptation in emerging markets. .

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Brisbane aims to implement a comprehensive sustainability strategy to achieve a climate-positive Olympic Games 1 , with developers looking for ways to handle the waste that is being generated from expansion. Brisbane City, IOC Future Host Commission Questionnaire Response , May 2021.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

trillion in assets under management, has been a TNFD Taskforce member since the initiative’s launch in 2021. NBIM, which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, with US$1.3

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2023

Kendra Haven, InfluenceMap’s US Program Manager, said the intensive engagement of US utilities and energy firms illustrated a “trend that we see globally”, with the “most negatively-engaging corporate actors tend to be the most active, leaving a deficit in active, positive advocacy on climate policy by huge portions of the corporate sector”. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

ESG bond issuance reached US$1 trillion in 2021 for the first time according to Refinitiv. A key factor in meeting demand for climate-positive investment could be the growth of climate-aligned bonds. Q4 2021 was the fourth consecutive quarter to surpass US$200 billion and over 400 issues. An expanding universe.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. “We degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In addition, institutions should have interim decarbonisation targets that are “consistent” with the 2030 target, set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , of reducing CO2 emissions by around 45% from 2010 levels. GFANZ was launched in April 2021 and has more than 500 members across its member alliances.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Coal phase-out The Taxonomy has now gone through four rounds of public consultations over two years – in January 2021 , May 2022 , February 2023 , and June 2023. We do not want financial institutions to indiscriminately exit from carbon intensive activities just to reduce their financed emissions,” Menon said.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

Today we maintain one of the cleanest electricity mixes in the nation (see 2021 Power Mix for SCE Customers). We continue to honor our long-term commitment to bringing renewable energy to customers with the completion of SCE’s West of Devers Project in 2021. Edison International supports collaborative efforts to address climate change.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

McMahon says the overarching objective is to develop a “climate positive” portfolio of assets that will deliver on net zero targets, while having measurable impacts on biodiversity and soil health. He points to Microsoft which in January 2021 committed to purchasing 1.3 The target fund size is €250 million.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How can we work to make climate-friendly low-emissions alternatives available to all, through access to clean energy and climate positive products and services? In 2018 the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published a special report, which detailed the impacts of 1.5? C or even 2°C.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. The travel-intensive strategy firm BCG said it aspires to be "climate positive" by removing more carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere than it emits. But getting to zero — or neutral or positive or some other goal — is not without controversy.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

"We eagerly anticipate our participation in LEAD on a Clean Economy 2024, where we will showcase the substantial backing from the business community for these forward-thinking energy policies that not only foster significant job creation and economic growth but also accelerate essential decarbonization efforts for a climate-positive future.” "The

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