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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote

GreenBiz

It is also aiming to eradicate deforestation in its supply chains by 2023, including for commodities such as palm oil, paper, soy, cocoa and tea. Climate Summit later this year. We hope that by setting out our plan, and the assumptions underpinning it, investors will share our confidence — and other businesses will start to follow suit.

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Global $100 Billion Climate Finance Goal Expected to be Met in 2023: Report

ESG Today

The global goal for developed nations mobilize $100 billion in climate finance to their developing nation counterparts to mitigate and adapt to climate change is expected to be met in 2023, and surpassed in following years, according to a new report released by Canada and Germany ahead of the COP27 climate conference.

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A new year’s resolution for federal pension funds: Stop financing fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Come the first day of 2023, Canada’s federal government will essentially end financing for oil and gas internationally. . Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault also suggested that domestic fossil fuel subsidies would be eliminated in the first half of 2023. .

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Net Zero Readiness Report

3BL Media

KPMG published the Net Zero Readiness Index in 2021, 1 a few weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow. COP26’s chairman Alok Sharma said that the conference had kept alive the hope of keeping global temperature increases within 1.5 Click here to download the full Net Zero Readiness Report 2023.

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COP26: Statement from the We Mean Business Coalition

We Mean Business Coalition

As we approach the critical final stages of COP26, the We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to take bold decisions to keep the 1.5°C The final COP26 outcome must therefore seize this opportunity by delivering key outcomes to drive concrete implementation this decade with the aim of halving global emissions by 2030.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Achieving net-zero emissions shipping by 2050 is vitally important — and that means ambitious regulation coming into effect in 2023 will be required," said Grahaeme Henderson, Shell's global head of shipping and maritime. "It As the U.K. has a role to play in pushing for the highest possible ambition at this week's talks.

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ISSB on Track to Finalise Standards in Q1 2023

Chris Hall

Despite receiving over 1,400 pieces of feedback on its two exposure drafts, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is still on track to deliver its final disclosure standards in Q1 2023. The ISSB will look to issue final standards “as soon as possible thereafter”, with a target of Q1 2023 confirmed by Schmitz Eulitt. “We

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