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If we want to compete, Canada needs a green and transition taxonomy ASAP

Corporate Knights

Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition. Most of the G7 and G20 countries are moving ahead with their taxonomies, which speaks to their importance in a clean-growth toolbox.

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How the US Is Running Away with Green Investment

Chris Hall

Despite its lauded Green Taxonomy , which should position the EU to rival the US, limited State aid, ambiguity of the legislation, and a lack of incentives and legal obligations imposed on companies, has resulted in limited uptake from investors in Europe and delays in tangible action.

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More than a Third of Public Companies Now Reporting Scope 3 Emissions: MSCI

ESG Today

Sylvain Vanston, Executive Director, Climate Change Investment Research, MSCI, said: “The equation for investors is that they must address transition risks today or face severe and irreversible physical risks tomorrow, and that they have a role to play in driving the existential change required.

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Overshoot is Here

Chris Hall

This means that the entirely predictable and necessary Ratchet-driven call post-2025 for increased policy and significant uplift of global investment into clean energy and clean technology systems must be heeded with a tagline of ’we really mean it this time’.

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More Than a Pipe Dream?

Chris Hall

Green hydrogen has huge potential and multiple use cases, but cost concerns and operational risks linger. The world’s net zero future depends on introducing and upscaling clean technologies to neutralise and/or replace the hardest-to-abate CO2 emissions produced by carbon-intensive industries. Circular argument.

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Renewable Energy Shift Unstoppable Despite U.S. Election Result

We Mean Business Coalition

Companies invest in countries that offer long-term policy that is consistent. This enduring commitment from major economies and corporations to invest in energy resilience is not merely a matter of environmental idealism.

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The federal government is more than $14 billion behind on climate funding

Corporate Knights

Budget 2023 took an approach geared to compete with the IRA’s investment package and outlined five major investment tax credits: hydrogen; carbon capture, utilization and storage; clean technology; clean technology manufacturing; and clean electricity.