ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2023

Financial technology platform provider Intuit announced today a series of new climate-focused goals, including a new target to achieve net zero emissions across its value chain by 2040. We will continue to drive meaningful emissions reductions as we embark on our net-zero journey.”

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

An additional 12 new solar sites are planned between 2025 and 2027, adding another 900 megawatts of generation, and for the next 10 years, the company projects adding at least 450 megawatts of utility scale-solar energy per year.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements HSBC Buys Biomass-Based Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Deal with Cathay Pacific, EcoCeres Alfa Laval Accelerates Net Zero Goal by 3 Years to 2027 Mercedes-Benz Sharpens Sustainability Focus on 6 Key ESG Areas BlackRock, (..)

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ESG Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Enterprise software provider Red Hat announced today new a new goal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Red Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019, and the company said that its new goal aligns with IBM’s commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 4, 2022

New York City has become the latest jurisdiction to approve such a natural gas ban, which will come into effect at the end of 2023 for buildings under seven storeys and in 2027 for larger ones. But environmental advocates argue these measures will make it harder for municipalities to reach their net-zero emissions targets.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Global spirits and beer company Diageo announced today a new partnership with glass manufacturer Encirc to build a hydrogen-powered furnace for the first-ever at scale net zero glass bottle production. The decarbonization of glass packaging also forms a key part of the UK government’s plan to reach net zero by 2050.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ATLANTA, September 28, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Southern Company announced that it delivered the first-ever net zero energy TOUR Championship. The net zero goal includes direct GHG emissions across the company's electric and natural gas businesses. SOURCE: Southern Company.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

billion project to build the world’s first net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions ethylene plant in Alberta, Canada. The project will see Dow build a new ethylene cracker and increasing polyethylene capacity by 2 million metric tons annually (MTA), as well as retrofitting an existing cracker to net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Canada has set national climate goals including commitments to cut GHG emissions by 40% – 45% by 2030 , and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. The sector is also a major employer in Canada, supporting approximately 400,000 jobs.

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ESG Today

JULY 24, 2023

Sustainable procurement practices have become one of the key enablers in achieving net-zero targets.” SAP CFO and Executive Board member Dominik Asam said: “Reducing scope 3 emissions is a key factor on the journey to net zero.

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ESG Today

APRIL 25, 2025

The investment includes conditional purchase agreement to order up to 100 airplanes, based on JetZero achieving development milestones including flight of a full-scale demonstrator in 2027, as well as an option for an additional 100 planes.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The global market for business travel is projected to decline 54 percent during 2020, according to data by ResearchAndMarkets.com, which predicts a robust recovery for the industry — by 2027. Still, offset markets will become an increasing fact of life for more and more industries and companies that set their sights on net-zero emissions.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The first co-located clean energy project under the new partnership is anticipated to be operational in 2026, and fully complete in 2027. Peterson Corio added that Google hopes to replicate the new model across the U.S and around the world.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Investors that have set net zero targets for their portfolios have been cautioned to carefully evaluate their positions in majority state-owned oil and gas laggards. The NOC is planning to increase oil production capacity from 12 million barrels per day to 13 million by 2027. billion in 2022, a 46.5%

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In a statement announcing its plans to roll out the CBAM, the UK Treasury said: “Decarbonising UK industry forms an important part of delivering the energy transformation needed to achieve net zero. But these efforts will not succeed if decarbonisation in the UK simply leads to higher emissions abroad.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 17, 2024

Currently, only one segment of road transport – three-wheeled vehicles – is fully on track to reach net zero by mid-century. However, the report indicates that the window to reach global net-zero transport ambitions is now narrower than ever.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Highlights First injection could come as early as 2027 Site off coast of Teesside could store up to 100 million tonnes of CO2 Big step on the path to net zero greenhouse gas emission.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While the grid operators in Ontario and Alberta are both “investigating pathways to a net-zero power grid,” CEC points to a fatal flaw in their analysis — they rely too often on obsolete data that may go back as far as 2001, or draw from experience in other countries.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Last year, SBTi launched its Net Zero Standard , setting stringent criteria which it uses to assess and certify corporate commitments to achieve net zero emissions. SBTi also tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations are developing net-zero emissions strategies to take tangible climate action. Sustainable procurement practices have become one of the key enablers in achieving net-zero targets. Reducing scope 3 emissions is a key factor on the journey to net zero.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Amgen's “Road to Net Zero” not only includes carbon neutrality by 2027 but also involves reducing water use by 40% and waste disposal by 75%. The post Amgen’s Sustainability Track Record Includes Reducing Carbon, Water, and Waste appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

A new strategic partnership between SSE Energy Solutions and Scottish Water Horizons aims to develop low-carbon district heat networks across Scotland, accelerating the country’s journey toward net zero. Heat networks are projected to meet up to 20% of the UK’s heat demand by 2050, according to recent government figures.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 17, 2024

and China are the more appealing destinations for net-zero industries.” If the far-right National Rally (RN) wins the domestic elections scheduled for June 30 and July 7, it would claim the post of prime minister, while Macron would continue as president until 2027.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2022

Industrial gases company Air Products announced a significant increase in its planned capital expenditure plans for clean energy projects, boosting its 2018-2027 energy transition investment goal by $4 billion to a new $15 billion target.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

CSRD – Timelines and Structure Based on the status of deployment of the Green deal in January 2024, multinationals will begin reporting in 2025 based on FY2024; large enterprises in 2026 based on FY2025; and publicly listed SMEs in 2027 based on FY2026 (with an opt out option to 2028).

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The utility would be leaving the business of large-scale centralized power generation: closing all its coal plants by 2027 and tripling its renewable energy capacity by 2030. Bernabei says that by 2027, Sardinia will be powered by wind, sun and water alone. .

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Governments around the world are promoting clean-burning hydrogen as a critical component of our net-zero drive to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. The firms hope to make a final decision to proceed early in 2024, with plant start-up by the end of 2027.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 19, 2023

But the equivalent table [xlsx] from the December, 2021 outlook indicated much heavier reliance on emissions-heavy gas—70% in 2023, 74% in 2024, 91% in 2027, and 100% in 2043.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

Amgen is well on the path to deliver net-zero for Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprints as part of its 2027 ambition. The original Energize announcement can be found here. Our suppliers’ carbon footprints comprise most of Amgen’s Scope 3 carbon footprint.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Matthew Germain, Co-lead of Net Zero Policy and Regulation at Osborne Clarke, highlights incoming measures under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Although these obligations relate to the EU mechanism, UK businesses should take heed that the Labour government is committed to a UK CBAM that is expected by 2027.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 17, 2024

But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The strongest criticisms are lobbed at using CCUS to extract fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Figure 1: Energy-related emissions and net-zero carbon budget, BNEF’s Economic Transition Scenario and Net Zero Scenario (Source: BloombergNEF. Figure 2: CO2 emissions reductions from fuel combustion by measures implemented, Net Zero Scenario versus no-transition scenario. Source: BloombergNEF.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Phase III of the project located in Haskell County, Texas, is expected to achieve commercial operation in the first quarter of Keysights fiscal year 2027. Keysights portion of the project is estimated to generate renewable electricity equivalent to 100% of the companys electricity consumption in the United States and Canada.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 21, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include EU reforms of its carbon market and deforestation laws, and a $1 billion wind project in Laos. The post Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: April 21, 2023 appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

Recently published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the plan outlines reforms aimed at streamlining the grid connection process to meet growing demand for renewable energy. The UKs push towards clean power by 2030 is entering a transformative phase with the implementation of CP30.

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ESG Today

JUNE 26, 2023

The new dual-fuel ships, to be built by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group, will have capacity of 9,000 containers, and are expected to be delivered in 2026 and 2027. Boulos added: “With this order, we take another step in the green transformation of our fleet and towards our target of becoming net-zero in 2040.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The company said that the partnerships mark a “new step” in its global Climate Plan, making it possible to achieve net zero carbon for the plants of the ElectriCity cluster – consisting of Renault’s Douai, Maubeuge, and Ruitz manufacturing plants in northern France – in 2025, Europe in 2030 and worldwide in 2050.

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