Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A UN programme to get cities, regions, businesses and investors to improve approaches to resiliency has launched a new set of metric systems today (8 November) at COP26, to assist with a goal of making four billion people more resilient to an array of risks by 2030. Read more →

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Volvo Cars announced a new climate-related commitment, unveiling a new aim to reduce CO2 emissions per car by 75% by 2030, compared to a 2018 baseline. Volvo Cars has also pledged to sell only fully electric cars across its global portfolio by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Just before the launch of COP26, the UN climate conference in November, the DivestInvest network calculated that endowments, portfolios and pension funds worth nearly US$40 trillion have now committed to divesting their fossil fuel holdings. Eroding public support for the sector has been considered valuable work in itself.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. With the Climate+ strategy goal of 45 percent reduced CO2 emissions from textile fiber and material production by 2030, Textile Exchange is the driving force for urgent climate action. Pull Quote.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It has been launched at COP27, where a key theme is making good on the commitments made at COP26 and demonstrating action. Nigel Topping, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the UK, COP26 will introduce the Playbook as part of the Marrakech Partnership’s Industry Action Event on November 11TH, 2022 at 10:00 EET. link] #netzero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The bank, currently Europe's second largest financier of fossil fuels, has committed to reaching net-zero across its supply chain and operations by 2030, before reaching net-zero across its customer portfolio 20 years later.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2024

KPMG published the Net Zero Readiness Index in 2021, 1 a few weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow. The event resulted in 153 countries putting forward new emissions targets for 2030 and more than 90 percent of world economic output and global emissions being covered by net zero agreements.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Ceres, along with its partners, will call on investors, companies, and policymakers to build on the progress since COP26 and turn commitments into even more ambitious actions and implement bold policies in line with the scientific need to limit average temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C. November 3, 2022 /3BL Media/ - ?

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to Reuters, Bolivia, which is still seeing deforestation increase, refused to agree to the 2030 deadline, while CNN reported that Guyana and Suriname also balked at the commitment. But for all its important pronouncements, the agreement falls short of getting the eight nations to agree to stop cutting the rainforest down.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. KEYWORDS: ACRE, London Climate Action Week, COP26. C future within reach.".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A new independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps for the UK was published on 2 December by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). There is now a path to expected global warming of under 2°C, but only if all the ambition in new mid-century Net Zero targets is delivered, alongside national 2030 emissions targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

The roadmap aims to demonstrate how the organisation will cut its carbon footprint by 45% by 2030. As a global ambassador for COP26’s Race to Resilience, I aim to bring practical examples of this work to the attention of the world.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. Ahead of COP26, the UK must show strong leadership and commitment on environmental issues or risk serious embarrassment.

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Impakter

JULY 20, 2022

C warming compared to pre-industrial levels, progress on new, more ambitious 2030 climate targets has stalled since COP26 in Glasgow. Despite the International Panel on Climate Change’s clear warnings on the extreme dangers of exceeding 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Many of the major announcements unveiled by governments and the private sector so far at COP26 demonstrate that progress is underway. Gt of emissions reductions globally by 2030. There is potential for this to be ironed out at COP26. . COP26 must deliver robust rules on the Global Stocktake in 2023. . C, according to?

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The conference will likely focus particular attention on the implementation of goals from last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact. One of the key highlights of the Glasgow pact included a call on countries to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions targets, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. Carbon capture.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

One of the key highlights of last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact , was a call on countries to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions targets, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The UNFCCC report, however, revealed that very few countries have met their pledges to update their NDCs.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Deforestation is a major topic at the ongoing climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, since deforestation and forest degradation affect climate change on a large scale. In conjunction with the ongoing COP26 in Glasgow, The CGF is holding a panel discussion on the industry’s transition to net zero emissions, which Essity intends to achieve by 2050.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 19, 2023

Global food and beverage company Danone announced a new sustainability commitment to tackle a major source of its greenhouse gas footprint, with an action plan to achieve a 30% absolute reduction in methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 2030. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of methane emissions by 2030.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 30, 2021

The law sets an intermediate target of reducing GHG by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The International Energy Agency called for "unmistakable" action by world leaders to reduce emissions ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference , warning that the global transition to renewable energy isn't happening quickly enough to meet net-zero goals. Follow @EngelsAngle. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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3BL Media

JUNE 8, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As we look back to Earth Day 2022, and cap a month of focus on our planet, I am reminded of the COP26 collaboration ambitions and the clear message that industry has a critical, active role to play in in advancing action on climate change. by Chris Johnson. SOURCE: Nokia.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Efforts to secure global commitments to phase out fossil fuels in prior UN climate conferences have failed, with last year’s COP27 agreement only calling for an “increase in low-emission” energy and renewables, and COP26 including a pledge to “phase down” unabated coal use and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Making the commitment means that your business will start to take immediate climate action in order to: halve greenhouse gas emissions before 2030, achieve net zero emissions before 2050, and disclose progress on a yearly basis. They have set targets to halve emissions before 2030 and reach net-zero emissions in their value chains.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

At the same time COP26 takes place in Glasgow, the City of Ithaca demonstrates its commitment to fight climate change by taking this very important step towards fully decarbonizing our building stock," said Savante Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca, NY. The City of Ithaca's goal is to reach carbon-neutrality community-wide by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement in the first days (much to the surprise of Indian observers) that India would reach net zero emissions by 2070 and generate 50% of its energy from renewables by 2030 helped lower that trajectory to 2.4°C. But with the U.N.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

Themed “Zero in on Future Value”, the digital report communicates CDL’s progress towards its material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and targets under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint. It will also reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from investments by 58.8%

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Following COP26, a total of 64 countries, covering more than 89 percent of global emissions, have pledged or are legislated to achieve net zero in the coming decades. This year’s Global Energy Perspective launches at a time when global energy markets are facing an unprecedented array of uncertainties, including the conflict in Ukraine.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Global commodities trading company Trafigura announced today a new commitment to purchase at least 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits by the end of 2030, joining an initiative aimed at supporting the development of the CO2 removal market and solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

We were dismayed, for example, that ministers having vowed to treble the production of biomethane by 2030 in December, we found the Transport Decarbonisation Plan published last month by the Department of Transport didn’t even mention it. There is no Net Zero without biogas.”, ”, Charlotte Morton concludes.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2022

The report highlights Bloomberg’s efforts to build significant momentum in the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and how the company is leading efforts to mobilize markets to fight climate change and bring transparency to climate risk data. To build momentum for COP26 in Glasgow, Bloomberg L.P. degrees Celsius.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Last September’s Global Citizen Live campaign was a month-long countdown ahead of the G20 and COP26 summits to address the pandemic, hunger and climate challenges. billion people by 2030. The campaign saw 1.1 million actions and over 70 new announcements thanks to the efforts of many hard working and dedicated partners.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report was launched at COP26 in Glasgow in November during the day dedicated to Cities, Regions and the Built Environment. For example, in the UK, consultation is currently underway to raise energy performance requirements for all private rented commercial buildings in 2027, and again in 2030.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Trafigura launched the commitment at last year’s WEF meeting, pledging to purchase at least 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits by the end of 2030. FMC was launched at the COP26 climate conference, creating a coalition of companies committed to creating early markets for clean technologies addressing hard-to-abate sectors.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

Themed “Zero in on Future Value”, the digital report communicates CDL’s progress towards its material Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and targets under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint. It will also reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from investments by 58.8% link] via @ReportAlert.

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