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Alberta's conservative party invites climate disinformation into policy debate

Corporate Knights

Members of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party are debating whether to abandon existing net-zero targets at the party’s annual general meeting in Red Deer this week – a move that would further signal the province’s departure from global and national priorities for mitigating emissions.

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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century

GreenBiz

HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century. HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. Cecilia Keating.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': Top scientists warn of irreversible climate impacts

GreenBiz

Another landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides stark warnings but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net-zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce escalating impacts.

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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?

GreenBiz

Let’s begin with a few headlines: Southern Company commits to net-zero emissions by 2050. Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. Shell plans to achieve net-zero emissions across its product manufacturing operations. Congress to promote climate action. When the U.S.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Aligning Capital to Ambitious Climate Goals

Chris Hall

Asset managers’ net zero targets depend on governments living up to their commitments, says Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of AIGCC and IGCC and NZAM Chair. In the past 12 months, signatories have been taking a range of actions to implement their individual net zero commitments.