We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Finance: Business and governments must go all in to finance the global transition to net zero .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Last year, Cisco announced its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes by 2040, ten years ahead of when climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

September 17, 2024 /3BL/ - Today, the Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) formally launches two innovative programs to accelerate the fight against climate change. GHR is an initiative of SCS Global Services, a global leader in sustainability standards and certification, including award-winning climate services.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. Every now and again, I’m reminded of something I learned in one of those lessons.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Last year, Cisco announced its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes by 2040, ten years ahead of when climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 21, 2024

He is also a professor at the University of Maryland and a climate scientist specializing in the global carbon cycle. In the interview below, Dr. Zeng shares about Carbon Lockdown’s unique approach to CDR and the verifiable impact Carbon Lockdown’s wood vault is having on the fight against climate change.

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 29, 2022

Cisco is committed to ensuring a sustainable and regenerative planet with ongoing initiatives and solutions aimed at reducing emissions and addressing climate change.? . That’s why the Cisco Foundation announced a new 10-year, US$100 million commitment to fund nonprofit grants and impact investing in climate solutions.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He did this while sitting next to Professor Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, effectively the world’s senior climate scientist. On Tuesday, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called for a broader pool of contributors to adaptation finance across public and private finance.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

Between the climate crisis and continued interruptions in the global energy supply chain, an increasing number of companies and governments are preparing to transition to more sustainable and diversified energy systems. Energy and Climate Transformations: 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. His startup, Rewind , wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year — about 10 percent of what climate scientists deem necessary each year to reach net zero by 2050 — in a remarkably simple way.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Creon Butler, Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme at think tank Chatham House, made a similar warning of a “probable sharp adjustment” this month , saying that “financial markets did not yet reflect climate risk” despite the clear severe economic and financial consequences of climate change.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In funding, scaling, and integrating these projects into national strategies, countries have a unique opportunity to reinforce their own ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change and fulfill their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): Many climate projects directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Professor Steve Keen says asset owners should dedicate more investments to the climate transition, while prioritising scientific predictions over economic ones. Institutional investors are ill-prepared for the impending societal and economic changes likely to be triggered by climate change and have their priorities all wrong.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

The Climate Action Coalition , conceived by Skidmore and Climate Action and officially launched on Friday, describes itself as “a global community focused on the urgent delivery of our 2030 climate goals”. C was set out in detail back in 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). C of warming.

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Companies continue to understand that there is value in making meaningful sustainable changes — these efforts are good for the environment and they can also be a boost to business. Climate change is also causing increased costs for parts, materials, and services, as well as massive increases in insurance fees. Last fall, Inc.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

For decades, the idea of capturing carbon—either from emissions sites or from the atmosphere itself—was relegated to arcane discussions among climate scientists. The report’s authors argued for aggressive exploration of the “possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes.” In 1965, the U.S.

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Sense and Sustainability

AUGUST 11, 2021

The report is the first installment of the latest climate change assessment by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It focuses on the physical science of climate change, and reports on the current state of the climate, possible climate futures, risk assessment and limiting future climate change.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Over the last decade and a half, a standard form has emerged in which governments and corporations have made their promise to do so: the net-zero target. As a strategy, the net-zero target has been criticized by climate advocates; at its worst, it can be a vague, unenforceable greenwashing program. In the U.S.,

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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.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. We understood that the potential cost of climate change was significant. . Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

COP28 offers a historic opportunity to drastically change course on climate change. The chorus of voices calling for change is growing louder, and the world’s leading companies are ready and willing to act. Sectoral net zero targets need to be set and implemented swiftly, along with greater accountability.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 24, 2023

billion will enable it to profit from tackling climate change while continuing to extract oil and gas for 60 or more years into the future, says CEO Vicki Hollub. Earlier this year, she said DAC will one day help Occidental bring its operations to net-zero, allowing it to continue investing in oil extraction. “We

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3BL Media

APRIL 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Society must move more forcefully to combat global warming, the world’s top climate scientists warned Monday in a new report that says existing solutions and innovation offer hope—but not without action. Global temperatures will stabilize when carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero, the report says. .

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The climate crisis is a massive global problem, which we are totally failing to get to grips with. The solutions to climate change are remarkably simple, if only we’d get on with them. Will the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt starting November 6 bring any new breakthroughs? Here are steps to get them started.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 19, 2024

Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts. C, as agreed upon in the Paris Agreement , countries must reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions 45 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Climate commitments legend 1.5°C: Especially if they want to succeed long-term. C: Business Ambition for 1.5C

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

October 22, 2024 /3BL/ - The Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) will host a panel of top climate scientists and entrepreneurs speaking out on the growing importance of reducing aggressive climate super pollutants including methane, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and HFCs that are responsible for nearly half of all global warming.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. Investors and policymakers signalled mixed progress in their support for net zero transition this week, ahead of a critical report from scientists.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Joe Biden has pledged to get the US on a path to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a key target that climate scientists have identified as necessary to stave off catastrophic effects of climate change. Read the full story at The Verge.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the climate context, possible future scenarios centre on physical risk, transition risk or both. Physical risk is the tangible impacts of climate change, like fires and flooding, while transition risk is the impact that climate policy has on the economy, technology and consumer demand.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 4, 2024

Mexico’s new president is a climate scientist who earned a reputation for meticulous attention to detail when she advanced rooftop solar, transit, and bicycle infrastructure as mayor of Mexico City. When it comes to the politics, “I want a leftist woman climate scientist for president, too,” said one social media post quoted on HEATED.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 5, 2022

After the world has collectively dragged its feet for far too long to slow down climate change, companies and governments are now championing a deceptively simple solution: filtering carbon dioxide out of the air and burying it deep underground, or turning it into everything from jet fuel to yoga mats.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

In the late 20th century, US environmental policies were influenced by a mix of inflamed climate anxiety (surrounding, for example, the 1990s acid rain policies and ozone debates) and powerful, Big Oil-funded climate change denialism that hindered necessary action. The Cloud of Net-Zero. This is the clutch.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Hot on the heels of the UKs National Wealth Fund , largely targeting net zero infrastructure investment, comes the US Sovereign Wealth Fund , targeting pretty much anything that promotes the long-term financial health and international leadership of the United States.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

of man-made climate change, one man made the weather. After all, the only phenomenon making more weather right now is climate change. Hes certainly a key contributing factor to the exodus of major US financial institutions from sector alliances mapping a route to net zero emissions by 2050.

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