ESG Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate research provider and environmental disclosure platform CDP announced today the release of its company scores for 2022, including its annual “A List” of top performers. C-aligned climate transition planning, verification of deforestation commodity volumes, and verification of water data.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

SUMMARY: Potsdam Institute for Climate Research (PIK) Selects Lenovo High Performance Computing Solutions to Advance Energy Efficient Climate Research. DESCRIPTION: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., SOURCE: Lenovo. Today’s businesses are expected to serve a larger purpose with sustainable and responsible innovation.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For us, the key question is: How can a global investment firm develop an ESG framework across asset classes that meets varied needs and enhances our ability to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients? Our climate research efforts also benefit from a partnership with the Columbia Climate School.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Climate resilience is crucial for all market participants up and down the value chain. To improve their transitional risk resilience, large corporations who have committed to net zero targets are now engaging with their critical suppliers. Climate risk is a systemic risk – meaning it is a risk you cannot diversify from.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For the past three years, the company has focused on tracking corporate climate commitments and providing data and insights into VCMs through a single, platform. In 2019, the majority of the carbon credits purchased from VCMs were from projects in developing countries, with the value of the market reaching almost US$2 billion in 2022.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine convulsing oil and gas markets, to big-power politics around OPEC+, a surge in interest in renewables, and in December a landmark US breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. BloombergNEF has analyzed these and other key developments, and here we look forward to what might be coming in 2023.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Plugging the gap But adaptation bonds are just one way in which to plug the climate adaptation finance gap, which is wider than ever before, according to the UNEP 2023 Adaptation Gap Report , released earlier this month. Twenty-four percent of assessed countries said they have developed a NAP, and 46% intend to do so in the near future.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2023

Investors are likely to develop their own in-house models to fill sectorial and geographical data gaps. A rapid rise in climate scenario analysis is being driven by increased investor demand and reporting standards and frameworks.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

For each benchmark, ICE has created six climate variants using different screening and carbon metrics combining to target a reduction in the aggregate of constituent’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. The Net Zero Markets -created contract went live on ACX on 17 June and traded at between US$7.23-$7.60

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Just Capital

MARCH 10, 2022

He and Colton, who oversaw the development of this year’s guidelines, told us in our discussion that even though they sent the letter and guidelines in January, their guidance has not changed. How are we thinking about net zero as an asset manager and what kind of disclosure do we want to see? What the ‘S’ means in 2022.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blackbox market There is no publicly available data on the prices at which individual projects are traded or retired in VCMs, Aurelia Britsch, Global Head of Climate Research at Sustainable Fitch, told ESG Investor , noting that a large share of credit transactions is done over-the-counter, via private deals.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Climate scientists have unambiguously told us how to avoid the grimmest consequences of climate change: achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. President Biden has outlined an ambitious strategy to transition the United States to net-zero emissions and has mobilized the entire government to achieve it.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“It is never about the individual, but the collective,” says Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, 26, the daughter of first-generation immigrants who advises investors and governments on an equitable transition to net-zero. She has also developed ICE’s National Hub, leading policy endeavours at the federal, provincial and territorial levels.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The panel will take place on opening day of the prestigious VERGE climate conference put on by the Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz). Verge 2024: Deploying Climate Tech at Scale Session: Tackling Super Pollutants on the Path to Net Zero Tuesday, October 29, 3:15-4:15 p.m.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This sustainability podcast series goes beyond the obvious in support of positive and collective climate action and is powered by insights from the Schneider ElectricTM Sustainability Research Institute. The report also found that current climate research does not take enough stock of the demand side of energy.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

These droughts, bushfires, powerful storms and heat waves amplify the scientific evidence predicted by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that we are already living in a changed climate.”. What are Australia’s stated net zero goals? Ember noted the “major divergence” on coal at COP 26.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

C is now more or less inevitable by 2040, with what many present as the relative good news, that a widespread commitment to net zero is “extremely likely” to keep temperatures below 2°C. The new AR6 report provides a “likely” (67% probability) climate sensitivity range of 2.5°C And RCP8.5 Taking out the uncertainty.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

ISS ESG’s Climate Impact Report provides detailed analyses of Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 emissions, transition and physical risks and climate scenario analysis based on the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario.

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