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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00.

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What 2024’s costly climate disasters mean for home insurance rates in 2025

Corporate Knights

A simulation of a one-in-100-year flood event estimated $9.1 While the insurance industry recognizes the central role of climate change and preaches adaptation, it is silent on its own complicity. Yet no Canadian insurer has made such a commitment, and few have even published plans to achieve net-zero.

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To Meet Net Zero, Prioritize ESG Laggards

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: On the heels of COP26, investors are not only thinking about the climate-related risks of companies within their portfolios, but they are also considering whether to make new investments or maintain existing investments in high-emitting companies or countries going forward. Engaging for Net Zero.

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Reset Connect Showcases Net Zero Business Solutions at London Climate Action Week

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: More than 100 exhibitors have taken part in the Reset Connect London two-day event (28-29 June) as part of London Climate Action Week. The organisation comprises 300 experts that provide a trusted guide to becoming net zero and solutions to the climate crisis. By Rufus Bullough. SOURCE: Acre.

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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. In May, the court found the government’s inadequate climate strategy to be unlawful for the second time. Lord Deben was a principal witness for the prosecution.

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Fossil fuel expansion will be the litmus test for banks’ net-zero promises

Corporate Knights

Many of the world’s biggest banks face the enormous challenge of realigning their entire loans and investment operations in the coming years to put themselves on a credible path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “We Ultimately, best practices come down to are we seeing year-over-year changes in their capital flows?”.

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Net Zero Readiness Report

3BL Media

KPMG published the Net Zero Readiness Index in 2021, 1 a few weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow. The event resulted in 153 countries putting forward new emissions targets for 2030 and more than 90 percent of world economic output and global emissions being covered by net zero agreements.

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