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JUNE 22, 2022

including many following the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?—?has We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers, or any form of greenwashing.” The BCCC community of companies committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2030 has grown substantially since, now numbering over 1,800, including over 1,000 B Corps.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

A week before COP26 in Glasgow, the initiative unveiled the world’s first science-based accreditation of companies’ net-zero targets with the launch of the Corporate Net Zero Standard. Addressing greenwashing. Just three – Lloyds, NatWest and Nordea – had committed to cutting their financed emissions in half by 2030.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Many standards available.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. 45% emissions reductions by 2030), and a net zero target for no later than 2050 that is not overly reliant on negative emissions technologies”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

C by 2100, but only “urgent system-wide transformation” can deliver needed GHG emission cuts by 2030. Taking account both of the Ukraine crisis and the post-pandemic rebound in energy demand, the IEA said its net zero pathway is “narrow but achievable”, requiring policymakers to drive a demand-led transition to slash fossil fuel use by 2030.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

JETPs are not yet designed to address climate adaptation concerns. The JETP with Indonesia , which was concluded at the Bali G20 summit last year with a total financial commitment by the IPG of US$20 billion, aims to reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector to 290 million metric tonnes (MT) by 2030.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

One of the most important changes since COP26 in Glasgow last year is that companies are sharing concrete numbers on how much they’re investing, the amount of emissions they’re cutting, and the details of their impact. In fact, this has been a COP of action. C temperature rise limit.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Finally, we had COP15 on Biological Diversity with the agreement to Protect and Conserve at least 30% of the World’s Land and Ocean by 2030 (30×30). Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Given that we have such a limited window for action, a science-led net zero strategy requires a very steep downward trajectory in emissions to halve them by 2030.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The world needs “a breakthrough and a new roadmap on climate finance that can mobilise the US$1 trillion in external finance needed for emerging markets and developing countries – other than China – by 2030”. Rich countries have since struggled to deliver on this pledge, but the private sector have begun to step in. Gold standard.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

It does not look as though the IATA plan squares with COP26 commitments to limit deforestation, especially given the refusal of the Indonesian government to fully support the pledge to halt deforestation by 2030. Who has thought this through and joined the dots? Biting the bullet.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The UN High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities issued its recommendations for eliminating ‘greenwashing’ from net zero pledges, which emphasised the need for “significant near- and medium- emission reductions” in 2050 decarbonisation plans. . Banks lay out targets .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This year, Canada introduced its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan , which aims to achieve 40-45% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2030. C, clarifying fiduciary duty, and strengthening advertising rules to deter greenwashing. Since 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada has imposed a price on carbon pollution.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

30 adaptation outcomes by 2030 across food and agriculture, water and nature, oceans and coastal, human settlements, and infrastructure systems to enhance resilience for four billion people highly vulnerable communities. . At least US$1 trillion of this needs to be annually invested in EMDEs.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

RTZ – the UN-backed drive to rally companies, financial institutions and other non-state actors to take action to halve global emissions by 2030 – says the tighter requirements will clearly expose those who are truly moving ahead versus those “ trying to find loopholes ”. . Phasing down and out .

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. And they have to do it quickly.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses must close the ‘Say : Do’ gap; the greenwashing space between their environmental pledges and (lack of) actions to meet them Paul Polman, former Unilever CEO. Your stakeholders also will appreciate that you set interim targets 2025, 2030 to review your progress. Climate 100+ Net-zero benchmark. Conclusions.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Also as at COP26, some developing countries are reluctant to commit too quickly to fossil fuel phase out , critical to efforts to ‘ keep 1.5°C C alive ’, especially when developed countries are still failing to deliver on climate finance pledges to support this energy transition , described in the new text as a “grave concern”.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

In 2021 Ukraine submitted its updated NDC to the UNFCCC which targets emissions reductions of 65 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2060. At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035.

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