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Divided We Fall: Why The Climate Community Can’t Afford To Break Apart

We Mean Business Coalition

Scientists have warned rising temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming a public health hazard for a region home to more than 30 million people. Climate change is here, changing where and how we live and restricting the ability of communities, governments and businesses to operate.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Yet that is precisely where the industry has found itself, after a new grassroots campaign — Clean Creatives — launched this month in the United States, aimed at pressuring advertising, PR and public affairs agencies to end what it regards as "greenwashing and misinformation campaigns that help delay climate action.". spent almost $1.4

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit

We Mean Business Coalition

Historic progress was made with countries agreeing to channel financial support to vulnerable communities that are already suffering devastating impacts from climate change. The deal struck in Sharm El Sheikh provided little towards changing that trend. Cemex, Holcim and Titan became the first cement companies to set 1.5°C-aligned

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

We saw new highs of ambition within one of the hardest-to-decarbonize sectors, as Cemex, Holcim and Titan become the first cement companies to set 1.5°C-aligned As they work towards their climate goals, companies must prioritize people – and the just transition has been a key theme at this COP. C-aligned science-based targets.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

A court forced Shell to reduce emissions, an activist investor forced ExxonMobil to replace three board members better suited to fight climate change, and Chevron shareholders voted against their board to achieve faster-cut carbon emissions. We had the “Day of reckoning” for big oil. Carbon Offsets Market growth.

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Major report casts uncertainty over carbon-offset market

Corporate Knights

The SBTi believes that direct decarbonization must remain the priority for corporate climate action,” Alberto Carrillo Pineda, SBTi’s chief technical officer, said in a statement. SBTi, a non-profit supported by the Bezos Earth Fund and other funders, is the world’s leading agency certifying corporate climate-change reports.