Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The announcement is meant to deliver on the 2023 subsidy phaseout deadline contained in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s December, 2021 mandate letters to Guilbeault and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Jessye Waxman, Senior Campaign Representative, Fossil-Free Finance Campaign, Sierra Club, says climate-related shareholder resolutions give banks necessary guardrails for transition financing. Proponents of the resolutions acknowledge the near-term need for fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Jose Pugas , Head of Responsible Investments and Engagement at JGP Asset Management , explains why scal ing -u p finance between the global north and south for nature-based solutions is essential to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet the world is changing.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

“If policy action has not improved, it’s very much in the balance if we can keep on working with that target,” he said, adding that the scheme’s ability to invest in climate solutions, including renewables, was being limited by economic and political factors, including permitting delays.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy. Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But solar and wind enjoyed record levels of generation and investment in 2022, with policy swinging behind accelerated renewables deployment in multiple markets, led by the US ; energy security and efficiency were cited as often as climate change as reasons to end our toxic relationship with fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

On 7 July, at the 80 th Meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), IMO member states endorsed the regulator’s ‘ 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships ’. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has estimated that maritime trade volumes will triple by 2050.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

Yet, despite this uncertainty, decarbonisation is a megatrend; driven by the need to reach net zero by 2050 if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. For the economy, business and investors, decarbonisation means massive change and a need to completely re-build energy infrastructure.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

During a media briefing hosted by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), lead investors, including the New York City (NYC) Comptroller’s Office, As You Sow and Sierra Club Foundation, outlined their proposals for the upcoming 2023 proxy season.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

All regulations, whether based on the ISSB standards or the EU or China’s own standards, have the Taskforce of Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) principles inbuilt. This means companies MUST consider the financial risks of climate change on the company’s financial situation – short, medium and long term.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Swedish government pension fund AP7 is a universal owner that manages around SEK1 trillion (US$968 billion) in AuM, with 90% of its assets invested in a diversified equities portfolio across more than 3,000 companies.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency , the world needs to cut 90% of coal use by 2050 and phase out all unabated coal power plants by 2040 to achieve net-zero emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. These plants are expected to operate for decades and risk becoming “stranded assets” if they retire early.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The failure of rich nations to make good on their pledge to supply US100 billion annually in climate finance is long-running bone of contention for the countries most threatened by climate change and is a key focus at COP27. . degrees of climate change. . The deal committed US$8.5 The deal committed US$8.5

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

The importance of water-related risks was underlined last month with the commitments to a more ambitious Water Action Agenda signed last month at the UN’s first dedicated water summit in 50 years, part of a focus throughout 2023 on getting the UN Sustainable Development Goals back on track.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As reported by Newsweek , an NCSE survey revealed that teachers offer their students very little climate education and when they do, it is often inaccurate (60% of teachers are unaware of the scientific consensus on climate change). trillion climate-focused infrastructure bill. Petro-pedagogy targeting kids.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Preparing for the storm: The role of UK business and government in improving UK resilience to climate change in the UK’ explores how leading UK businesses are already increasing community resilience through climate adaptation strategies and action. billion climate finance already promised by Biden each year, by 2024.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

Over the course of 2022-2023, the TPT will be making recommendations, preparing detailed sectoral templates, creating guidance on third-party verification, and producing a pathway for future work on transition plans for consultation. . “No No two companies’ transition journeys are the same, even if they’re in the same sector.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2025

But a faster reduction in gas-fired generation would help reduce demand for a fossil fuel whose primary component, methane, is about 84 times more potent a greenhouse gas over the 20-year span when humanity will be scrambling to get climate change under control.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2025

That includes the We Mean Business Coalition , where she is CEO, and the Women Leading on Climate network , an international coalition she co-founded and launched at Climate Week NYC in 2024. What is the Women Leading on Climate initiative? Because she started this initiative Women Leading on Climate in Glasgow.

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