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3M Advances Its ESG Commitments

3BL Media

We have put forward ambitious goals to bend the curve – for example, a 20% water reduction by 2025 and 50% carbon reduction by 2030 – while delivering on pledges to make our factories and communities more sustainable.

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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

The Biodiversity Benchmark , developed in partnership with The Biodiversity Consultancy and Conservation International and supported by Sappi, will enable companies to understand their impacts and dependencies on nature in their materials sourcing strategies, chart a pathway to delivering positive biodiversity outcomes, and benchmark their progress.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. The newly launched international initiative Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is developing a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related financial risks.

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The Wall Street Journal Names Trane Technologies One of the Best-Managed Companies of 2023

3BL Media

The ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness, based upon five principles: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength. “At At Trane Technologies, we believe that bold ambition drives action, impact and results.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. A Trans Mountain Pipeline Bailout?

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Investing in our Planet, and in our People, with Clean Energy

American Clean Power

In reviewing the evidence, the IPCC authors found that while greenhouse gas emissions had reached a historic high in the last decade, developments in renewable energy technology, policies to improve efficiency, and a new focus on preventing ecosystem destruction had begun to “bend the curve,” slowing the growth in emissions.

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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