Report Report: ESG, supply chains, net zero and EVs
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
A wrap-up of recent research on sustainable business and clean technology.
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Clean energy will draw $2T in investments this year, setting new records: IEA
Corporate Knights
JUNE 11, 2024
Clean energy technologies and infrastructure are likely to receive twice as much global investment this year as fossil fuels, but countries still aren’t on track to fund the tripling of renewable energy capacity they agreed to at last year’s COP28 climate summit, the International Energy Agency concludes in a pair of reports issued this week.
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EU eyes Australian wind investment as it locks in renewable capacity at home
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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EU Commission Unveils Plans to Scale Clean Tech Manufacturing: “The Race is On”
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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Canada Announces Over $80 Billion Clean Tech & Energy Investments to Compete with U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
ESG Today
MARCH 31, 2023
incentives will undermine Canada’s ability to attract the investments needed to establish Canada as a leader in the growing and highly competitive global clean economy.
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Understanding the Crucial Role of Climate Scenario Analysis in Business Strategy
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Key risks and opportunities include: Increased frequency and severity of storms, floods, and heatwaves that can disrupt supply chains, damage infrastructure, and impact workforce availability. This scenario includes increased investment in clean technologies such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, and sustainable infrastructure.
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U.S. Department of Energy Shares Strategy to Secure the Clean Energy Transition
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. How Is the US Strategizing to Secure the Supply Chain?
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Keysight CEO: Our Steadfast Commitment to Build A Better Planet
3BL Media
JUNE 22, 2022
In 2021, the world navigated a continued pandemic response, weather-related events, supply chain constraints, and other challenges. Our goal for net zero emissions in company operations exemplifies Keysight’s strategic intent to help mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.
EU Commission Commits €4.6 Billion to Support Cleantech Projects
ESG Today
DECEMBER 3, 2024
billion in decarbonization technology and clean hydrogen projects, utilizing funds raised through its EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). billion for net zero technologies, including €1 billion targeted specifically to electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing, and a further allocation of €1.2
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A Principled Stance
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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Standard Chartered, DHL to Co-invest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel
ESG Today
MARCH 19, 2024
GoGreen Plus aims to offer real emissions reductions through carbon “insetting,” enabling shippers to replace conventional fossil fuels with sustainable fuels or clean technologies, such as SAF. Standard Chartered has committed to net zero in its own operations by 2025 and in its financed emissions by 2050.
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Investing in Green Energy: Opportunities for Renewable Diesel | Booster
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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6 new finance solutions to drive energy transition in developing economies
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The Amazônia Sustainable Supply Chains Mechanism will leverage off-take agreements for forest-compatible products to provide upfront finance, technical assistance, and structural community resources that catalyze the bioeconomy and keeps forests standing in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Stay On Top of Energy Transition With These Top 10 Podcasts
3BL Media
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist focused on innovation and transformative technology as it relates to corporate climate action. Together they host the weekly GreenBiz 350 podcast, where they explore the organizations and individuals driving clean technology and sustainable businesses. Redefining Energy.
The integral role of every department in Australia's sustainable business revolution
Sustainability Matters
AUGUST 16, 2023
To meet the growing demand for sustainability, it’s not just about adopting clean technologies; it’s about embedding a culture of sustainability into every facet of an organisation. In Australia, examples abound of companies successfully integrating clean technologies. Operations teams sit at the heart of this transition.
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EU Batteries Need Export Credit Backing
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. Lithium-ion batteries are a core component of electric vehicles (EVs), and their supply is therefore essential to the European Union’s ambitious decarbonisation goals.
Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered
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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Green light for path to UK’s first ‘electric motorway’
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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Take Five: Bigger, Better, Bolder
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Sensing the difficulties, a letter from the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero Secretariat, the Blended Finance Taskforce and the Global Capacity Building Coalition reiterated the ability of the private sector to deliver US$1 trillion toward the annual US$2.4 trillion required annually.
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The sustainability sector's thoughts on a 'future made in Australia'
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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Hydrogen-in-transport innovators celebrate in latest round of £8 million competition
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2023
One project led by ULEMCo will develop hydrogen-powered airport ground-based support vehicles, such as tow trucks for airplanes and sweepers to clean runways. This will be based at Teesside International Airport, helping Teesside International Airport reach its goal of being net zero by 2030.
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The sins of omission: A cool reception for the King’s speech
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Most controversial was the decision to support the future licensing of new oil and gas fields, “helping the country to transition to net zero by 2050 without adding undue burdens on households.” The proposal was viewed by many as a cynical attempt to draw an electoral battle line on the issue of climate change.
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Trade groups call for solar funding reprieve in Scotland
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 13, 2024
Scotland’s solar sector and the Scottish Government’s net-zero targets are at serious risk if solar is not reinstated to the Home Energy Scotland (HES) grant and loan scheme, according to warnings from trade groups in the construction and renewables sectors.
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Overshoot is Here
Chris Hall
MARCH 31, 2023
Disorderly transition and portfolio risks loom large. 2025 will cause a fundamental re-appraisal For investors with 2030 and net zero commitments, the Stocktake / Ratchet cycle will show that success from significant company and policy engagement since 2015 has been difficult to spot. None of this will be fun.
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Firms selected to pitch at climate tech innovation event
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 14, 2023
Sylvie Russell, COO of Cambridge Cleantech, said: “There has never been a more critical need for investment to help accelerate innovation in clean technology. The acceleration of cleantech innovation not only helps us achieve net zero but demonstrates the economic benefits of integrating climate solutions with business.”
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Member-Clients’ Global Leadership is Recognized
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. Julia graduated with a B.S.
Post-COP28, key industry conferences paint a mixed picture on energy transition
We Mean Business Coalition
APRIL 4, 2024
Its experience with large, complex projects makes it well-placed to help scale technologies that are needed to reach net-zero and displace fossil fuels, such as CCUS, geothermal and hydrogen. that are building this future.
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Decoding the G7: 5 takeaways for business on climate and energy
We Mean Business Coalition
MAY 5, 2023
C What the G7 ministers said: “We underline our commitment, in the context of a global effort, to accelerate the phase- out of unabated fossil fuels so as to achieve net zero in energy systems by 2050 at the latest in line with the trajectories required to limit global average temperatures to 1.5°C.”
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DP World Endorses Green Shipping Corridor in Push for Sustainable Maritime Trade
3BL Media
DECEMBER 14, 2023
VANCOUVER, Canada, December 14, 2023 /3BL/ - DP World , a global leader in integrated supply chain solutions, has endorsed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at establishing an international green shipping corridor linking Canada’s West Coast with ports in Asia and the Middle East. Moller Maersk, and other critical entities.
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This Canadian city is finding rare earth minerals needed for the green transition through recycling
Corporate Knights
JUNE 5, 2024
Concerned about this concentration, Western countries are actively seeking ways to diversify their supply chains and reduce their dependence on Beijing. Emerging recycling technologies offer a sustainable way to shore up the supplies the world needs and reduce pressure to expand mining. million motors for EVs.
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Implications of the New Green Industrial Policies
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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Abrupt end to Canada’s green retrofits program leaves industry in chaos
Corporate Knights
MARCH 5, 2024
million affordable, “net-zero-aligned” homes by 2030. The program has propelled a transformational and lasting shift in consumer preferences for more energy efficient homes and a robust made-in-Canada green buildings supply chain,” while saving an average of $386 and cutting 1.2
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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 17, 2023
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 report notes that engagement from members of CDP’s Supply Chain program is driving action globally.
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The case for raising up women in climate tech
GreenBiz
APRIL 15, 2021
It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? economy to net-zero emissions by 2050. From classrooms to boardrooms. It would seem that climate tech’s moment has arrived. In 2019, just 2.8
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'Mostly a win' for clean energy, Budget 2023 fails to end fossil fuel subsidies
Corporate Knights
MARCH 29, 2023
For companies that fall short of those markers, the 15% clean technology and hydrogen tax credits will fall to 5%. In terms of impacts for emissions, impacts for clean growth, impacts for competitiveness in a net-zero world, I can’t think of anything that compares to this in a budget,” said Beugin. “It
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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Global supply chains are extremely strained by the Covid pandemic and Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. The goal of net-zero emissions did not cause or contribute to these crises, but it is a key solution. That doesn’t include opportunities in many of the rapidly emerging clean technology sectors.
What Europe’s Rightward Shift Means for Investors
Chris Hall
JUNE 12, 2024
Providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to clean technologies, it was the biggest climate law in the country’s history, flexing America’s financial muscle in a way that Europe would struggle to compete with – much to the ire of some of its leaders, the most vocal of whom was France’s President Emmanuel Macron. “It
Investing in the EV Revolution
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.
Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada
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. Earth Alive Clean Technologies. Growth rate: 28%.
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Legislative Carrot Feeds US Climate Transition
Chris Hall
JANUARY 24, 2023
Despite causing short-term supply issues, the IRA is set to have far-reaching implications for net zero transition strategies, domestically and globally. billion in developing its US solar supply chain, opening a second plant in Georgia, raising its total annual solar panel production capacity to 8.4
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