ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

New strategic investors participating in the financing included Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Jim DeMare, President of Global Markets at Bank of America, said: “Sustainability is part of discussions in boardrooms and with investors. Bank of America supports innovation in these evolving markets.”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This was made possible through our combined efforts to reduce our own environmental footprint through efficiency investments and other projects, and by purchasing verified carbon offsets and renewable power, which began in 2020. We were the first among our banking peers to achieve carbon neutrality.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 17, 2023

On May 11, the European Parliament voted to ban carbon-neutral claims that are based on carbon-offsetting schemes. As The Atlantic put it in March, “The world is finally cracking down on ‘greenwashing.’” At the same time, the U.K.’s

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Financial Times: Moral Money

JULY 18, 2022

Plus, carbon offsets and lobbying pose greenwashing risks

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 18, 2024

And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher. He notes that “carbon-neutral meat” has become a key term that the industry has appropriated to provide the veneer of environmental responsibility: “It’s like painting a gas station green and claiming it’s environmentally friendly.”

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. Reading this article, you will better understand the carbon offsets market, carbon offsets controversy and the key initiatives to follow. Carbon Offsets Markets size. Introduction.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Canadian investment bank TD Securities announced the launch of a new Carbon Advisory business, aimed at offering clients with end-to-end carbon market solutions. Prior to joining TMX, Hall led the North American carbon and environmental commodities trading business at Capital Power.

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Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

BNP Paribas is among nine banks who have invested $45 million together in voluntary carbon credit trading platform Carbonplace.

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3BL Media

MAY 19, 2022

billion pounds of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from entering the atmosphere in 2021, by choosing renewable energy and carbon offset products. Past SolarSPARC projects include rooftop solar arrays for Elbow Creek Wind Farm, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Camp Hope, the Houston Food Bank, AMLI Residential and more.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

The African Development Bank estimates that Africa incurs annual losses of between $7 and $15 billion (all dollar figures are U.S.) trillion in community green bonds in 2022, according to the African Development Bank Group. because of climate change, a figure expected to escalate to $50 billion by 2030.

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2022

Exchange group Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced today the launch of Hong Kong International Carbon Market Council (the Council), a collaboration of leading corporates and financial institutions primarily focused on the development of an international carbon market.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

According to the nonprofit CarbonPlan, which analyzes the scientific integrity of carbon offsets, at least six large sites in California, Oregon, and Washington have burned over the past five years. Read the full story at Grist.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

While crypto can offer some societal benefits—such as financial inclusion and the ability to “be your own bank”—there are also potential downsides, including its carbon footprint, prevalence of theft through hacks and lack of centralized governance. Still, it’s a tall order. “We solar fleet,” says Alsford.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

TD Asset Management (TDAM) announced today the launch of TD Global Carbon Credit Index ETF, a new exchange-traded fund aimed at offering investors exposure to the global carbon credit market.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2023

CCS technologies allow for the safe storage of carbon dioxide captured from industrial sources, such as power plants, in natural geologic formations deep underground with minimal impact to our timber operations, non-timber income, and other land-based solutions businesses. carbon offsets) to meet these commitments.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

September 27, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT), a mission-driven fintech and digital banking platform, today announced that it has been named the 2022 Finovate Award Winner for Excellence in Sustainability. Reducing our carbon footprint by purchasing 7,240 tonnes of carbon offsets. SOURCE: Oportun.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The new partners include Aircastle, Air New Zealand, Embraer, Google, HIS, Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking, Safran Corporate Ventures, and Technip Energies.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Fifth Third is the only bank among peers to achieve a Leadership Score for three consecutive years. Achieved an A- CDP Leadership Score in 2021.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Voluntary carbon market network Carbonplace announced today that it has raised $45 million from its consortium of founding banks, as it prepares to launch and scale its global carbon credit transaction platform. The platform connects buyers and sellers of carbon credits through their banks.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Several other companies around the world are also offering to arrange for collecting plastic from where it winds up and doesn’t belong (landfills, waterways, roadsides), and then verify credits, including Plastic Bank and Plastic Credit Exchange. “As Who’s eligible to buy plastic credits?

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3BL Media

AUGUST 29, 2022

We have since completed similar agree­ ments with Kuehne+Nagel, a global logistics company, Bank of America, and a number of other companies. Enabling Our Customers to Offset Their Flights. Thousands of customers have chosen to offset the emissions from their flights through Cool Effect since we launched the program in 2020.

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ESG Today

JUNE 15, 2023

as a nonprofit in 2021 to fix a broken supply chain in the voluntary carbon offset market and to spur innovation in carbon dioxide removal. The post Carbon Measurement and Reduction Startup Climate Vault Raises $9.4 Since then, we’ve already helped the planet avert an estimated $190 million of climate damages.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Aiming to create a carbon-negative album release, they calculated the “cradle-to-grave” carbon impact of both a CD and vinyl LP from manufacturing to shipping, from its life in a fan’s stereo to its likely afterlife in a landfill 100 years from now. Touring is harder in Canada because it’s so geographically spread out.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Fifth Third is the only bank among peers to achieve a Leadership Score for three consecutive years. Achieved an A- CDP Leadership Score in 2021.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Investment data and research provider MSCI announced today an agreement to acquire Trove Research, a specialist data, analysis and advisory firm focused on corporate climate action, carbon markets and the energy transition.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

New partners joining the fund include American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), Aramco Ventures, Aviation Capital Group, Bank of America, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Groupe ADP, Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue Ventures.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.”

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3BL Media

MARCH 14, 2022

By offering only products with an environmental benefit and operating with a zero-carbon footprint, the energy provider remains committed to sustainability every step of the way. Green Mountain customers have collectively helped avoid nearly 100 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of planting more than 11 million trees.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

PNC Bank client, NETSTREIT, specializes in acquiring single-tenant net lease retail properties and recently made the decision to double down on its sustainability commitments by setting aggressive goals that go further than any of its current competitors. Power of Relationship Banking.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natural carbon sinks, carbon mineralization and direct-air capture are early focus areas for Stripe’s 2019 Negative Emissions Commitment , which aims to spend at least double in these areas compared with what it pays for carbon offsets. In 2019, it followed an inaugural €1 billion bond with a $1.5 billion U.S.

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ESG Today

JUNE 18, 2024

According to the companies, the agreement marks the largest known carbon dioxide removal credit transaction to date, based on MSCI Carbon Markets data. Microsoft’s leadership has helped build the high-integrity carbon offset market. and Latin America. They are blazing a trail that other companies can follow.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2024

Additionally, I find inspiration from initiatives like Pizza Hut's food donation program Harvest, which has been donating surplus food from restaurants to food banks and other organizations since 1992. It’s an easy solution to minimizing food waste and keeping consumable food out of our landfills.

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3BL Media

JULY 15, 2022

According to research from retail bank Aldermore, SMEs invested an average of £61,250 into their own sustainability operations during the last 12 months, with the average SME planning to spend a further £78,392 (an increase of 27 per cent) in the coming year, despite the increased cost of living.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

Carbon credit investment is going through an “ethical shakedown,” said Ivan de Klee, the head of natural capital at the U.K.-based There is a “cry for integrity” for real data, rather than modeling-based carbon offset options, de Klee added. based nature recovery investment company Nattergal. A government commitment of 2.4

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 1, 2024

The world’s leading authority on corporate climate plans has dealt a blow to the carbon-offset industry, signalling that it objects to corporations using carbon credits in place of emission reductions in their own supply chains. It certified the climate plans of 4,200 companies by the end of 2023, double the number from 2022.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Of those assessed, only Eni has targets that are “potentially” Paris-aligned, the Carbon Tracker report said, but it questioned the credibility of the company’s plans, due to its “reliance on asset sales”, CCS and carbon offsets.

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B the Change

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“When you’re thinking of centering justice in your climate action plan, it’s important to understand there are many tools and many actions you can take as a business, and carbon offsets are just (some of the tools) in the toolbox to fight climate change,” Schrock said.

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