GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Australia has committed to reducing carbon emissions to net zero. The Climate Change Authority report is the most important analysis to date on how to get there. The post Yes, we can reach net zero by 2050: New report maps path in more detail than ever before appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

Net-zero pledges have become commonplace among corporations, financial institutions and cities, but questions abound as to whether those companies and governments have real plans in place to achieve them. In many cases, corporations or local governments don’t yet know how they will achieve net-zero status by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Canadian oil and gas industry is engaging in greenwashing by endorsing a 2050 net-zero target while actively lobbying against measures that would achieve that climate goal, international non-profit InfluenceMap says in a report. C,” the report said. Meanwhile, they’re hiking dividends and share buybacks.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 4, 2022

As the warming climate drives up temperatures and ignites wildfires across many parts of the globe this summer, a new study shows some of the world’s largest asset management companies have some of the smallest net-zero targets for their portfolios. . trillion in assets, came last at 4% net-zero assets under management.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Increasingly companies around the world are under pressure to respond to global climate change. The time is now to establish your path to Destination: Net Zero and CFOs are recognizing the near-term need to address global climate change. This white paper outlines a step?by?step

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Renew Economy

JUNE 23, 2024

The CCA's role is likely to become more important in the lead up to a federal election set to focus on net zero. The post Matt Kean to helm Climate Change Authority, says no to nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

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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Corporate Knights

MAY 25, 2022

Canada’s provincial governments need comprehensive net-zero climate strategies to drive growth in the green economy, but some are sending mixed policy signals to the companies that will create tomorrow’s jobs, says a new report from the Canadian Climate Institute. . However, B.C.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 6, 2024

A new report renders a damning portrait of Canada’s Big Five banks on their path to net-zero emissions by 2050. The Big Five banks have taken little voluntary action to align their business practices with their own net-zero commitments. billion in fossil lending and underwriting out of total financing activity of U.S.$499

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2022

In the pursuit of its net-zero 2050 goal, Canada needs a rigorous strategy to require banks and other key financial system players, including Crown corporations, to fully align their operations with the country’s international climate commitments. And any delay means risk and means losing money.”.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 2, 2022

Duncan Kenyon is the director of corporate engagement with Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC), with over 20 years of environmental, business and climate-change leadership experience. . The good news is that most of Canada’s big oil companies have pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 30, 2024

While the insurance industry recognizes the central role of climate change and preaches adaptation, it is silent on its own complicity. Globally, insurance companies like Allianz, Zurich, Munich Re, Suncorp, Generali and others are aligning themselves with net-zero by halting the underwriting of fossil fuel expansion.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Investors need to shift their focus to agriculture and smart-farming to create the next tech boom and fight climate change.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 22, 2022

They wanted to engage with him on RBC’s support for the Coastal GasLink pipeline construction across unceded Wet’suwet’en territory, despite the bank committing to net-zero emissions by 2050. Another member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, U.K.-based

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Renew Economy

MARCH 20, 2025

Climate change will disrupt our lives more and more until the world reaches net zero not even Australian Rules football is safe. The post Footy faces cyclones and record heat it’s just a taste of what’s to come from climate change appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Still, producers want the federal government to include exported LNG as part of its climate change strategy, including policies for preferential financing. Ottawa is currently developing a transition taxonomy – essentially a guideline as to which types of investments are appropriate in the transition to a net-zero economy.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 13, 2023

One of Australia's first ministers for climate change and a former trade unionist will head up the body charged with helping communities transition from fossil fuels. The post Ex Labor climate minister Greg Combet to chair federal Net Zero Agency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2025

The organizations key functions include defining and promoting best practice in emissions reductions and net-zero targets in line with climate science, providing technical assistance to companies who set science-based targets, and providing companies with independent assessment and validation of their emissions reduction targets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2025

The recognition from CDP shows Essitys commitment to become net zero by 2050 and our engagement in the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) since 2017. Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and its global effects are far-reaching.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Meta is pledging to contract at least $35 million for carbon removal projects in the coming year as part of our goal to achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. Reducing our GHG emissions across our global operations and value chain remains the most effective strategy to reach net zero.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 9, 2021

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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As a headline, it is big, splashy and promising: a coalition full of financial giants pledges a colossal sum to address climate change. But can that pledge be counted on?

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 23, 2023

Sponsored: Regardless whether we realize it, the climate economy is transforming every aspect of our lives. We are finally serious about combating climate change and adopting our way to a healthier planet.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The world is watching as tens of thousands of leaders gather for the 28 th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, from November 30 to December 12. SAP can help 87% of total global commerce organize its supply chain, transportation, and financial data in a way that enables a circular and net zero economy.”

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Whoever invented the notion of herding cats never imagined the frustrations of guiding 190 nations along the complex path to net-zero. Beryl is yet more painful proof: every year, fossil-fuel-driven climate costs are an economic wrecking ball hitting billions of households and small businesses.”

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As a global leader in sustainable energy, waste and water operations with decades of experience, we work directly with our customers to achieve these triple net zero goals. Theyre taking measures such as cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions, keeping their waste streams out of landfills or adopting water recycling technologies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Companies and countries all over the world are committing to net-zero goals and pledges to the SDGs; diversity, equity and inclusion goals; human rights — the list goes on. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy. Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

The role of time horizons and relationship banking in financing a net-zero economy. The coming net-zero backlash. Hacking the climate crisis (21:10). She talks about her mission with Shana Rappaport, GreenBiz vice president and executive director of the VERGE conference series. . E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions. Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. HSBC’s climate commitments include investing at least $750 billion in sustainable financing over the next 10 years. HSBC paid $36.40

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In a report released the same day, the three advocacy groups recommend that Ottawa ’ s banking regulator require financial institutions to adopt a “ credible climate plan ” that would include interim targets for 2025 and 2030. . Treasury Department. . Senator Rosa Galvez is also critical of the regulator ’ s approach.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

s Association of Independent Music launched the Music Climate Pact , which was signed by all three major labels – Universal, Warner and Sony – along with large indies like Secretly Group and Ninja Tune. The post The music industry changes its tune on climate change appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

The federal government is pursuing new policies on procurement and low-carbon investment standards aimed at boosting the business prospects for companies committed to net-zero climate plans. Climate changes means business,” the environment minister told a GLOBExChange audience. “We

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