GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

While the pledge provides limited detail on the measures it will take to slash the carbon emissions of its portfolio or operations, the bank said it would establish "clear, measurable pathways" to net-zero using the Paris Agreement's Capital Transition Assessment Tool (PACTA). Sponsored Article. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2021

A Paris Agreement for blockchain. On April 7, a coalition led by Energy Web announced the Crypto Climate Accord , modeled loosely on the Paris Agreement. Like the Paris Agreement, this broad pact is pathway-agnostic. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Swedish Energy Agency and Rwanda's Ministry of the Environment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on emissions trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The next steps are to agre.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

DWS, one of the largest asset managers in Europe, announced the launch of three new climate-focused ETFs for its exchange-traded funds business Xtrackers, expanding its suite of Paris Agreement-focused product series with funds providing exposure to US, European and Japanese equity markets.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 23, 2022

Instead, it envisages a treaty akin to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions. The emphasis on designing plastic products to be reused or recycled means that the future agreement will probably also include a commitment to phasing out single-use items made from plastics wherever possible.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Amazon Vice President of Worldwide Sustainability Kara Hurst released a statement about the investment: Amazon created The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early — achieving net-zero carbon by 2040.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

So failure to address one issue is just going to exacerbate the risk of another," said Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Company Network and lead author of the nonprofit’s latest set of suggested strategic, operational and policy change actions necessary for the corporate world to meet the warming-mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The OECD report analysed how the climate alignment of finance globally is assessed, the current degree of alignment, and how financial sector and real economy policies and actions influence alignment with Article 2.1c

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When experts at CDP, a nonprofit that tracks sustainability commitments, surveyed 479 food and ag companies , only 75 reported having emissions commitments in line with the Paris Agreement. This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sponsored Article. The situation is worse for deforestation.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

McKinsey & Company declared carbon neutrality in 2018 and has set emissions reductions in line with the Paris Agreement, including a 60 percent reduction in purchased energy by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

For the first time, those organizations have the opportunity to verify their emissions reduction plans against the goals of the Paris Agreement. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and has received flak over its failure to come up with a detailed, ambitious plan to decarbonize in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Carbon Removal.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Sponsored Article. Risk & Resilience.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The climate plans of both companies, like those of the majority of the fossil fuel industry, are incompatible with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement between nations to keep global heating “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 This article was first published on DeSmog. Read the original story here.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

We have the blueprints to make this happen, from the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, but we need people who can get us there. In the past, I have written about different frameworks on sustainability roles and competencies , and Wijdoogen’s book should sit alongside these articles.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

environmental NGO Sierra Club, hailed the move as "a major step in the right direction" for Morgan Stanley, and said all banks claiming to support the goals of the Paris Agreement also should follow suit. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This article is sponsored by Trucost, part of S&P Global. The sustainability manager saw this as an excellent starting point to set science-based targets for a reduction in emissions, with the targets reflecting the Paris Agreement and carbon reduction plans for countries in which the company did business. Sponsored Article.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”. This article is republished from The Energy Mix. Read the original article.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Energy & Climate. Emissions Reduction.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Even with decarbonizing the electric and transportation sector, to reach long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, the United States would need an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide emissions by 2050. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement; to develop and implement a plan to reduce “the carbon footprint and the environmental impact” of any products or services provided to Salesforce; and to publicly disclose their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Sponsored Article. Supply Chain. Leadership. Featured Column. Two Steps Forward.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2025

At COP29 in Baku, new rules were adopted for carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. These rules are meant to increase the transparency of the country-to-country trading of carbon credits under Article 6.2. Read the full story from A&O Shearman.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. Of 167 Nationally Determined Contributions submitted under the Paris Agreement, just 70 include nature-based adaptation actions; the majority of those are in low-income countries. Sponsored Article. Jonathan Cook. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 00:30.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Biden already has rejoined the Paris Agreement, committed to advocating for environmental justice and rolled out a government-wide focus on racial justice. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. leadership in sustainable finance and business.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

HSBC is targeting net-zero in operations and supply chain by 2030; it also seeks to align its portfolio of investments with the Paris Agreement goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Pollution Prevention.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We have to cut carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, and we have to find new ways to think more in line with the circular economy," Furnes said. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Oceans & Fisheries. Digitalization.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8 Finance & Investing. Decarbonization.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Specifically, JPMorgan Chase announced in October that it would shape its financing portfolio in three key sectors to align with the Paris Agreement; three days later, HSBC announced its statement of net-zero ambition. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

year planning process, aren’t officially science-based targets but they are "more aggressive" than the 2 degrees Celsius reduction scenarios suggested by the Paris Agreement, according to ADM’s chief sustainability officer, Alison Taylor. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). BusinessGreen.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. The post Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: Winding down production to fulfill the Paris Agreement appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It is republished.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indices that are labelled as Paris-aligned Benchmarks (PABs) under EU rules must meet criteria for asset selection that results in the index aligning with the long-term climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This article originally appeared on Ensia.In 2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 27, 2024

Poilievre cast a rare “yea” vote of climate action in 2017, voting alongside 277 MPs from all major political parties in favor of a motion stating that “despite the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, Canada remain committed to the implementation of the Agreement, as it is in the best interest of all Canadians.”

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 10, 2022

At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Article 6 sets out co-operative approaches that countries can take to reach their climate targets, including through the use of market mechanisms such as carbon markets.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s the pontiff’s first major declaration on climate and the environment since the Paris Agreement was negotiated in 2015, although he has frequently opined less formally on the urgency of climate action. This article originally appeared in Grist at [link].

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