ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The proposals make up critical elements of the EU’s recently launched Green Deal Industrial Plan, a series of strategies and initiatives aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the Europe’s net zero industries, and supporting the EU’s transition to climate neutrality.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. C, SBTi 6 25 Royal Canadian Mint Metal products manufacturing B+ SBTi, 1.5°C C, SBTi 6 25 Royal Canadian Mint Metal products manufacturing B+ SBTi, 1.5°C

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Renew Economy

JULY 25, 2023

The regional bloc is focusing on protecting its supply chains for domestic clean technology manufacturing industries, but also has an eye on Australian projects. The post EU eyes Australian wind investment as it locks in renewable capacity at home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 9, 2024

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.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Funded by the EU ETS, the Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the deployment of net zero technologies, and one of the key tools behind the European Green Deal Industrial Plan, aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the Europe’s net zero industries, and supporting the EU’s transition to climate neutrality.

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CREA

MARCH 28, 2023

The choice to pursue investment tax credits for clean technology, like wind, solar, storage and green hydrogen, will allow Canada to take a competitive lead in accelerating the decarbonization of the energy sector,” said Evan Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Government Affairs at CanREA, who was on site for the introduction of the Budget today.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 9, 2024

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.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Lawmakers in the European Parliament and Council announced today that they have reached a provisional agreement on the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), a new regulation aimed at scaling up clean technology industrial capabilities and capacity across Europe.

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Canada unveiled its response to the emerging global race to scale up green energy and clean tech manufacturing capacity, with proposals for over $60 billion in tax credits and an additional $20 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments in its 2023 budget, presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland.

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3BL Media

JUNE 29, 2022

This includes employee safety and well-being; global aerospace safety; equity, diversity and inclusion; sustainable operations; innovation and clean technologies; and community engagement. Supported the commercial aviation industry’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions for global civil aviation operations by 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 15, 2024

trillion was invested in clean technologies, including heat pumps, electric vehicles, nuclear power, storage, grids, low-emission fuels, and efficiency improvements. This significant investment in clean technologies underscores the potential and importance of renewable diesel in the energy sector.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2022

Progress was made across these short-, mid-, and long-term measures in 2021: In the environmental sustainability space, Keysight committed to net zero emissions in company operations by the end of fiscal year 2040, in alignment with the Paris Agreement's preferred goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 5, 2024

As countries scramble to secure supplies of the raw materials they need to manufacture wind turbines, batteries and other technologies key to preventing runaway climate change, this facility run by local startup Cyclic Materials is part of an emerging industry: creating a circular economy for critical energy transition minerals.

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3BL Media

MAY 8, 2024

In line with the Challenge’s advanced technology specifications, these heat pumps will be designed to help organizations meet their energy efficiency needs and decarbonization goals. “As spends approximately $800 billion each year to power buildings, manufacturing plants and homes. According to the DOE , the U.S.

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ESG Today

MARCH 25, 2024

The administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) include allocations of nearly $500 billion to climate-focused investments in areas including carbon-free energy, manufacturing and clean technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable drain cleaning technology deployed by Lanes Group plc has supported the installation of a ground-breaking ‘super-thin’ source control stormwater attenuation system that has saved the NHS considerable costs during the construction of a new hospital car park, according to the group.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2022

This strategy centers around goals to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035, and achieve net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. Grid-Scale Energy Storage - Next-generation technologies are an opportunity for U.S.

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Chris Hall

MAY 30, 2024

As Europe races to keep up with China and the US on clean technologies, state-backed export credit agencies’ role is expected to grow. ACC is a joint venture between carmakers Stellantis and Mercedes, and battery manufacturer Saft – a subsidiary of French oil major TotalEnergies. billion (US$4.8

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The IEA’s ‘ Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions ‘ report, published ahead of COP28 in Dubai, estimates that in a 1.5°C trillion in annual investment in the technology, a near 1000% increase. CCUS remains a relatively nascent technology, as noted by the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 5, 2024

million affordable, “net-zero-aligned” homes by 2030. The two coordinated sign-ons are one of two major pieces of housing and climate policy advocacy landing in Ottawa today, along with a report from the Task Force for Housing and Climate that calls for construction of 5.8 tonnes of carbon emissions per household per year.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 14, 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed his government’s plan for the future of Australian manufacturing, with the announcement of a planned Future Made in Australia Act as the nation looks to accelerate its transition to net zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Because of the limits of existing technology, the plan says “removing [road freight] emissions requires the development and deployment of clean technologies.”. But it is also vital that projects such as these engage with local communities and workers that could be affected by a wide-scale rollout.”.

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CREA

APRIL 18, 2023

ITCs will propel renewables forward The ITC I am watching most closely is the 30% Clean Technology Investment Tax Credit, a refundable 30% tax credit on the capital cost of investments made by taxable entities in wind, solar PV and energy-storage technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Dismay at the Chancellor’s Spring budget speech on 6 March seemed widespread among environmental observers, with the REA for example, commenting that it “arguably confirms the diminishing of net zero legislation as a recurring theme of this administration”. Crumbs of consolation were welcomed, such as the 25% boost to landfill tax.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. achieve net zero by 2050. The problem is that the hydrogen being used in such large quantities isn’t net zero-aligned.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The goal of net-zero emissions did not cause or contribute to these crises, but it is a key solution. To accomplish this, the UK should consider borrowing a page from the United States and implement a true clean energy industrial strategy. Components of a UK Clean Energy Industrial Strategy.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reducing these emissions has required governments to introduce electric vehicle incentives, companies to set manufacturing targets and consumers to factor sustainability into their transportation decisions – positioning EVs as the clean technology that will dominate the future of transport. per litre respectively in July 2022.

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Sustainable Round Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Assessors examine each company’s activities including investment in clean technologies, earnings from products aligned with the Corporate Knights Clean Taxonomy, corporate commitments such as Science-Based Targets (SBTs), pay structures, board diversity, and tax payments.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

The 270-page document lays out eight priorities for the shift to a clean economy: electrification, clean energy, clean manufacturing, emissions reduction, critical minerals, infrastructure, electric vehicles and batteries, and major projects. Canada will need to invest heavily in renewable generation,” the budget says.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In fact, clean technology products represented 3.3% Clean technology investments often have high upfront capital costs and long payback periods. Governments at all levels should introduce a more comprehensive set of incentives to de-risk business investments in clean technology solutions.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act and the Canadian logistics company embarking on a $1 billion vehicle fleet electrification. The post Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 17, 2023 appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Instead, they see our net-zero targets slipping away and they feel betrayed. The list’s sheer variety confirms climate experts’ contention that net-zero will create infinite opportunities for entrepreneurs and inventors with vision, grit and persistence. But daunting challenges bring out the best in people.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2022

At home, we need Congress to swiftly pass a budget reconciliation bill with investments in clean energy manufacturing and deployment to address the threat that climate crisis poses for our economy, national security, and society at large. The clean energy investments in the current reconciliation bill will help the U.S.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

In the European Union, the Green Deal unveiled in December 2019 was recently upended with a Green Industrial Plan and a Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) in a bid to catch up with the United States. In both cases, the state has returned to directing industrial policy after a long absence.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Amongst a series of insights, the report finds, “achieving net zero CO2 and GHG emissions requires systems transformations across all sectors and contexts, including scaling up renewable energy while phasing out all unabated fossil fuels, ending deforestation, reducing non-CO2 emissions and implementing both supply- and demand-side measures.”

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