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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

The firms in the 2025 Global 100 ranking allocated 58% of their investments to sustainable projects in 2023, up from 55% in the prior year. That figure compares with sustainable investments of just 15% for the 8,259 other publicly traded companies with revenues of more than $1 billion in the Global 100 universe. Telus Corp.

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UBS Pushes Back Net Zero Target by 10 Years Following Credit Suisse Acquisition

ESG Today

HSBC , for example, recently pushed back its own target to achieve net zero emissions in its operations and supply chain by 20 years to 2050, and placed its interim financed emissions targets under review, all major U.S. In the report, UBS said that its assets under management with a net zero ambition reached $64.4

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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?

GreenBiz

Let’s begin with a few headlines: Southern Company commits to net-zero emissions by 2050. Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. Shell plans to achieve net-zero emissions across its product manufacturing operations. Mattel launches latest sugarcane-based products.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

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. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Financial institutions have a major role to play in decarbonising the economy toward net zero over the coming three decades.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. 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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Key players in concrete and cement align around ‘real-world’ roadmap towards net zero-emissions

Envirotec Magazine

A new report sets out a strategy for achieving net zero concrete and cement. The sector currently generates 8% of global CO2 emissions: more than aviation and shipping combined. The challenge of increasing emissions is becoming more urgent as production of concrete and cement is increasing to meet global needs.