Corporate Knights

AUGUST 24, 2023

Earlier this year, she said DAC will one day help Occidental bring its operations to net-zero, allowing it to continue investing in oil extraction. “We But CDR is not a replacement for deep emissions reductions, said climate scientist and IPCC author Zeke Hausfather. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Founded in 2020, BeZero is a ratings agency for carbon markets, providing carbon ratings, research and data products, backed by a team of climate scientists, earth observation specialists, data scientists and financial analysts.

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3BL Media

MARCH 9, 2022

Renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, are critical cogs in the world’s transition to net zero carbon emission. The topics are diverse—from the consistency of renewable energy sources to the relationship between ocean changes and North Sea salmon farms. Renewables Reliability: How Steadily Will the Wind Blow?

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

announces its plans to accelerate its commitment to combat climate change with a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and supply chain (Scope 3) by 2040 in accordance with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

In a 2023 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that to meet net-zero goals, electricity’s share of total energy demand needs to double between now and 2030 to accommodate the electrification of transportation, building heat, industrial processes, agriculture and information technology.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Canadians require a livable planet on which to retire, and climate scientists and energy modellers are clear that limiting global temperature increase to 1.5℃ He shared the stage with Teine Energy and Wolf Midstream, two Alberta-based fossil fuel companies owned by CPPIB – neither of which have committed to net-zero emissions.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Mainstream economists have generally pegged these impacts as relatively small and manageable, ignoring both the litany of climate catastrophes – this year was the the increasingly dire findings of climate scientists. The safety and soundness of the financial system in the face of climate change depends on their use.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Shift Action’s findings are similar to reports released in July from Carbon Tracker , a global advocacy organization on climate and finance, and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the University of Exeter, all based in the United Kingdom.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Companies that wait to transition until there is a stronger policy response will face higher costs and a shorter window to achieve net zero commitments. Climate policy response by governments and investment in clean technologies must be accelerated to keep temperature rise near 1.5°C,

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Corporate Knights

JULY 5, 2022

After the world has collectively dragged its feet for far too long to slow down climate change, companies and governments are now championing a deceptively simple solution: filtering carbon dioxide out of the air and burying it deep underground, or turning it into everything from jet fuel to yoga mats.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Unfortunately, carbon markets and carbon accounting, used worldwide to drive climate action, have systematically undervalued or completely overlooked these pollutants, leaving companies and governments with only half the data they need to make informed decisions. Who should attend?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

New skills and qualifications will be needed to underpin Net Zero. Cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to meet Net Zero targets is arguably the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Read the report here.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Last year, Cisco announced its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes by 2040, ten years ahead of when climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The We Mean Business Coalition brings together more than 9,000 companies worldwide to raise climate ambition and action.

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CIM

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Environmental policy has shifted from a fringe issue into a major electoral concern with policies about mining, deforestation, electric vehicles and alternative energy all being wrapped up in a global movement towards Net Zero carbon emissions. What we don’t know is the regulatory timeline. But it’s not all about hardware.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Climate commitments legend 1.5°C: Especially if they want to succeed long-term. C: Business Ambition for 1.5C

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3BL Media

APRIL 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Society must move more forcefully to combat global warming, the world’s top climate scientists warned Monday in a new report that says existing solutions and innovation offer hope—but not without action. Global temperatures will stabilize when carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero, the report says. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If youre a business leader, decision-maker, or designer of climate action plans, carbon emissions management or net zero targets, you should watch the recording here. Triple Pundit published a story on the impact of climate super pollutants and how GHR is working to tackle them. Read the full article here.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Last year, Cisco announced its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes by 2040, ten years ahead of when climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Around 75% of the climate crisis is being caused by our continued use of fossil fuels. No one is saying “Stop burning all fossil fuels today,” but the climate scientists who understand the alarm bells are saying we do need to stop investing in new oil and gas infrastructure and exploration.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“Our new tools complement this long-term model with near-term mitigation data that, for the first time, enable private and public sector entities to prioritize the most potent atmospheric heat drivers on their path to net zero.”

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He did this while sitting next to Professor Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, effectively the world’s senior climate scientist. C would be reached by the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. His startup, Rewind , wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year — about 10 percent of what climate scientists deem necessary each year to reach net zero by 2050 — in a remarkably simple way.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These projects help to offset emissions and contribute to global net zero. In setting climate goals, and integrating these projects into national policies and strategies, countries can ensure that they are aligned with climate goals, and be a part of the worldwide movement to limit average global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 29, 2022

In September 2021, Cisco committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, 10 years ahead of the time by which climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The word future speaks specifically to our sustainability initiatives. .

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

Between the climate crisis and continued interruptions in the global energy supply chain, an increasing number of companies and governments are preparing to transition to more sustainable and diversified energy systems. Collaboration is vital on this all-encompassing initiative. Topics include: Energy in metamorphosis. Carbon markets.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. Investors and policymakers signalled mixed progress in their support for net zero transition this week, ahead of a critical report from scientists.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 13, 2022

However, with more than 90% of global GDP now covered by net-zero targets set nationally or regionally, this change may well come in the not-too-distant future. It will likely be taken again with the mandates on net-zero transition plans from big emitters, due to be introduced in 2023. Exceeding 1.5C

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

If we don’t act now and halve our global emissions by 2030, we simply won’t reach net zero emissions by 2050 – it’s as simple as that.” Authored by some of the world’s top climate scientists and scholars, the report found the impacts of climate change would be significantly more treacherous to human life if that threshold was breached.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

That difference brought the two of us together, as a climate scientist and an investor, to discuss how industrial zones around the world could, within a few years, tell a drastically different story about our climate. For that outcome to occur, worldwide emissions must reach net-zero by 2050 at latest. .

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

An example: financial investors have started bringing on climate scientists because, despite their formal training in finance, they understand a great deal about how to assess the climate benefits of an investment project.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

While climate scientists and some leading economists, such as Nicholas Stern and Joseph Stiglitz, have challenged the inadequate climate risk models used in economic reports, the majority of economists have not aligned their reports with climate science, it added.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 4, 2024

Its experience with large, complex projects makes it well-placed to help scale technologies that are needed to reach net-zero and displace fossil fuels, such as CCUS, geothermal and hydrogen.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

For decades, the idea of capturing carbon—either from emissions sites or from the atmosphere itself—was relegated to arcane discussions among climate scientists. The report’s authors argued for aggressive exploration of the “possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes.” In 1965, the U.S.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

It is only a question of time as to when that comes: most climate scientists are now of the opinion that something serious is going to happen in the next decade,” Keen said. “If If something catastrophic that really terrifies people occurs, they may realise they have been misled.

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Sense and Sustainability

AUGUST 11, 2021

Written by more than 200 of the world’s leading climate scientists, the report synthesizes the best available climate science information from more than 14,000 studies. We need to stabilize our climate in the long run, which will require net-zero carbon dioxide emissions at a minimum.

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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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