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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

The clean energy transition is happening faster than predicted, with renewable deployment rates growing in line with the International Energy Agency’s scenario for reaching net-zero by 2050. While Canadian energy majors have paid lip service to the idea of becoming “net-zero,” their current climate strategies amount to delay tactics.

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The Climate Blockers: BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game

Corporate Knights

BASF resists the characterization, pointing to its track record – since 1990, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% – and its objective to achieve net-zero by 2050 (five years later than the German national target of 2045).

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Blog by Fred van Beuningen: Climate and the cost of inaction

Clean Tech Delta

In 2008 Mark Lynas , a science writer, published his book Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. In the twelve years since the first book was published, the situation has not improved. His book lays out the scenarios for an increase of 1,2, 3 and more degrees Celsius. A system change compass. We still have options.

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Defenders of ESG on the Offensive

Jon Hale

The AG letter contends that BlackRock’s commitment to accelerate net zero emissions across all of its assets, regardless of client wishes, is somehow political or unfair to clients who don’t want to invest in the energy transition. Inspire ETFs reflect pretty extreme views on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in my book.