3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SB 253: Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act The common phrase in the GHG accounting world “you can't measure what you can't track" underlines the fact that decarbonization action starts with GHG emissions accounting. In this article, we'll summarize each new law as well as outline the likely impact on businesses.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is generally a voluntarily self-imposed deadline, usually decades away, by which the institution’s emissions will not necessarily actually reduce to zero, but rather by which they will at least be ostensibly canceled out by carbon offsets. Cities’ pledges only increased by 8 percent.)

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sustainable aviation fuel is seen as one of the key tools to help decarbonize the aviation industry, which currently accounts for 2-3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. United Airlines has committed to fully reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 without relying on carbon offsets. This fund is unique.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

Canadian LNG producers have long had their eye on Article 6, a deeply contentious, nine-paragraph section of the Paris deal meant to support international carbon trading as a way to drive down emissions. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? those are the pieces that we still need to find.”

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

The initial standard, issued in 2021, did not permit carbon credits for emissions reduction. Additionally, carbon offsetting markets faces a series of challenges, however, with participants often unable to differentiate between high and low quality projects with insufficient or inconsistent data to assess the effectiveness of projects.

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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.

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Sphera

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Amid high-profile greenwashing scandals, access to reliable sustainability information emerges as the second biggest barrier to sustainable consumer behavior, with just one in ten consumers finding it very easy to access reliable sustainability information. However, 44% say they would “probably” pay a premium for green products. .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Two events will increase corporate Net-zero programs credibility and separate climate action from pure greenwashing: The launch of the first science-based Net-Zero standard by SBTi. Among several requirements, companies will need to reach deep decarbonization of 90-95% before 2050. 2 – Carbon Offset Markets price Hike.

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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. To increase carbon removals , the company must promote carbon removals projects, also called carbon sinks, within its operations or in its value chain.

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James Militzer

JULY 12, 2023

Despite their growing popularity as a way for businesses and other carbon emitters to offset their own emissions by buying credits from other entities that reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere, recent research has called their effectiveness into question.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nearly all with net zero goals said that they have a plan to deliver their targets, with top strategies including tilting mostly towards low emitters (25%), shifting capital to high emitters that are decarbonizing (25%), or a combination of both strategies (28%).

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Carbon offsets are ‘riddled with fraud.’ Solving credibility issues may require a greater overhaul of carbon markets. Carbon insetting Business-speak for companies reducing emissions in their own supply chains; an alternative to carbon offsetting. Can new voluntary guidelines fix that?

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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