The urgent need to clean up transportation
GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2021
How COP26 can pave the way for equitable mobility decarbonization.
Decarbonizing the built environment: Takeaways from COP26
McKinsey Sustainabilty
JANUARY 12, 2022
Here are the key takeaways from a roundtable discussion McKinsey hosted at the COP26 Climate Change Conference. How can the cement and construction industry achieve net zero by 2050?
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Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26
3BL Media
APRIL 14, 2022
SUMMARY: The need for climate finance – the local, national, or transnational financing that enables climate change mitigation and adaptation – was much debated at COP26. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Governmental Pledges. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Private Sector Initiatives.
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UAE Plans to Invest $54 Billion by 2030 to Meet Sustainable Energy Demand
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
It was also the first country in the Middle East to set a net zero goal, which it announced in 2021, ahead of the COP26 climate conference. Notably, however, ADNOC also recently accelerated its goal to increase hydrocarbon production capacity to 5 million barrels per day by 2027 from its previous 2030 target.
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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 13, 2025
They could have an amazing impact on accelerating decarbonization, but theyve decided not to do it. According to a report by the London-based NGO Global Witness, 503 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in 2021. They could have an amazing impact on accelerating decarbonization, but theyve decided not to do it.
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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote
GreenBiz
MARCH 25, 2021
In order to deliver its targets, Unilever said its priority was to decarbonize its use of heating and cooling, including removing HFCs — harmful greenhouse gas pollutants — from its refrigerants, having already achieve 100 percent renewable electricity across its business worldwide. Climate Summit later this year. It also has set up a $1.18
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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 20, 2020
The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s," he explained. "To To achieve 2 degrees we need to decarbonize by mid-century. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s. Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5
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Holding Businesses to Account Now: Using CDCs to Address the Climate Emergency
GreenBiz
MARCH 2, 2022
The private sector accounts for the majority of global emissions, but at present, business progress and delivery against decarbonization targets, ambitions and aims is not being captured.
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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26
3BL Media
JANUARY 25, 2022
DESCRIPTION: The United Nations Glasgow Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, concluded in November with 200 nations signing the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP), an agreement that could accelerate climate action and drive big carbon cuts. COP26 Reflects Increased Drive for Climate Action . SOURCE: AllianceBernstein. The problem?
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Ten Steps to Create a Successful Decarbonization Roadmap
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Last year saw significant activity as governments, utilities, businesses and other entities zoned in on mitigating climate change by setting aggressive decarbonization goals in an effort to lower carbon emissions. Look for easy-to-decarbonize areas of your operations where you can make a difference right away. Accept uncertainty.
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Schneider Electric Announces Additional Participation in First-of-Its-Kind Supplier Program To Advance Climate Action
3BL Media
AUGUST 24, 2022
Launched at COP26, the Energize program has educated hundreds of pharmaceutical suppliers. Renewable energy procurement can be a game changer as companies decarbonize.” To make progress toward our goals to mitigate climate change it is imperative that we at Bristol Myers Squibb take action to decarbonize our value chain.
What effect will the “Code Red” climate report have on COP26?
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 30, 2021
I count on government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success.” Every leading nation needs to take an aggressive approach towards making renewables the dominant energy source, and this needs to be ratified at COP26.”. But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.
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Tetra Tech's Justin Goonesinghe Discusses Designing Clean Hydrogen Markets to Support Decarbonization Efforts
3BL Media
JUNE 6, 2022
Discussing designing clean hydrogen markets to support decarbonization efforts. He works across Tetra Tech on decarbonization and clean hydrogen market design within the gas sector. Since 2017 Justin has focused largely on the role decarbonization of gas can play in achieving rapid and sustainable decarbonization.
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Only 5% of FTSE 100 Companies Have Published Credible Decarbonization Plans: EY
ESG Today
APRIL 4, 2023
Despite a UK government pledge to require large listed companies to disclose decarbonization plans this year, and over 80% of FTSE 100 companies committing to net zero by 2050, 95% of these companies have yet to publish “credible” or sufficiently detailed plans, according to a new study by professional services firm EY.
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‘We are uniting’: Long-duration energy storage competitors join forces at COP26
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Normally competitors in the quest to deploy long-duration energy storage, and replace fossil fuels with dispatchable clean energy at all hours of the day, 24 companies joined forces at the COP26 United Nations climate summit to form the Long Duration Energy Storage Council.
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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Ben Caldecott, director of the Oxford sustainable finance program and COP26 strategy adviser for finance, hailed the announcement as a "big deal," noting that HSBC faced particular challenges due to its being more exposed to emerging markets than many of its peers.
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Net Zero Readiness Report
3BL Media
MAY 16, 2024
KPMG published the Net Zero Readiness Index in 2021, 1 a few weeks before the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow. COP26’s chairman Alok Sharma said that the conference had kept alive the hope of keeping global temperature increases within 1.5 degrees Celsius this century but added “its pulse is weak.”
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How Green Methanol Can Help Decarbonize the Chemical Industry
Sphera
APRIL 12, 2022
Decarbonization progress has not kept pace to achieve targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, and last November, at COP26 in Glasgow, nations pledged to adjust their CO2 emissions targets by 2030 in an effort to realign with the goal of net zero by 2050. Methanol as a Cornerstone of Decarbonization.
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Energize Program Announces First Year Progress Including Formation of PPA Buyers' Cohort for Climate Action
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
SUMMARY: The Energize program – a collaborative effort by the pharmaceutical industry and Schneider Electric to increase access to decarbonization solutions for suppliers – has formed its first PPA buyers’ cohort. We are committed to decarbonizing our own operations, and to helping decarbonize the global pharmaceutical industry.”.
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Fossil fuel expansion will be the litmus test for banks’ net-zero promises
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 21, 2022
Civil society organizations are gearing up to hold financial industry players accountable on the lofty commitments they made at COP26 in November. Ultimately, best practices come down to are we seeing year-over-year changes in their capital flows?”.
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Ithaca, New York launches first city-wide electrification effort in the U.S.
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The City of Ithaca, New York has voted to electrify its entire building stock -- the first large-scale, city-wide decarbonization effort in the U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle. Ithaca's Common Council gave approval to Mayor Svante L.
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The zero-carbon business leader takes shape
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 26, 2022
At the recent United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, diplomats from nearly 200 countries struck a major agreement to increase the fight against climate change — establishing a consensus that more must be done to protect the planet. The whole digitalization journey goes hand-in-hand with decarbonization: they support each other.”.
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Climate change: Mars and PepsiCo offer lessons in decarbonization, call for a ‘redesign’ of supply chains
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 3, 2021
With world leaders vowing increased scrutiny over businesses’ climate policies at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and regulators crafting disclosure rules to increase transparency around firms’ climate risk profiles, executives are scrambling to accurately map their carbon footprint. Read the full story from Yahoo Finance.
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Digitally-Driven Operations Enhance Industrial Sustainability and Performance
3BL Media
JUNE 8, 2022
DESCRIPTION: As we look back to Earth Day 2022, and cap a month of focus on our planet, I am reminded of the COP26 collaboration ambitions and the clear message that industry has a critical, active role to play in in advancing action on climate change. by Chris Johnson. SOURCE: Nokia.
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COP26: Companies need certainty on climate progress with robust rules for the Global Stocktake
We Mean Business Coalition
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Many of the major announcements unveiled by governments and the private sector so far at COP26 demonstrate that progress is underway. There is potential for this to be ironed out at COP26. . COP26 must deliver robust rules on the Global Stocktake in 2023. . COP26 LIVE BLOG: ALL IN FOR 1.5ºC. C, according to?
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G7 Leaders Support Development of Global Sustainable Disclosure Standards
ESG Today
MAY 22, 2023
The ISSB was launched in November 2021 at the COP26 climate conference, with the goal to develop IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, in order to provide a global baseline of disclosure requirements that can be used by jurisdictions on a standalone basis or incorporated into broader reporting frameworks.
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Carbon markets could help the planet, but only if Indigenous land rights are recognized
Corporate Knights
MARCH 10, 2022
At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Communities at risk. Article 6 sets out co-operative approaches that countries can take to reach their climate targets, including through the use of market mechanisms such as carbon markets.
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EPRI reflects on the year gone by
Renewable Energy World
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Department of Energy to develop a national EV charging infrastructure blueprint to speaking at COP26 about numerous EPRI-led decarbonization research initiatives, it has been a whirlwind of a year. It’s going to take all sectors of the economy working together to meet collective decarbonization targets. and around the world.
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How will the energy crunch impact the transition to renewables?
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 21, 2021
"Ensuring that energy, including natural gas, remains affordable and available during the energy transition is likely to be a key concern for policymakers (at the COP26 United Nations climate summit)," Corbeau wrote in a commentary on the energy crisis. "As
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3 Guiding Pillars for Companies Looking to Create an Effective Climate Transition Plan
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
At last year’s COP26 climate conference, the U.K. The board committee responsible for ESG and climate oversight should ensure top-down compliance with climate transition milestones to meet decarbonization targets.
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Where are we on the path toward a carbon-free energy system?
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Following that session will be Decarbonization – Getting to 2035: Technology Interdependencies and Options , which will offer a view “from the trenches” by power producers across the globe.
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Electrification ‘not enough’ to meet Paris climate goals, consultant says
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26 , the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. “A lot of ‘building back’ as opposed to ‘building better’ and although this is a lost opportunity, it is not the last we have for transitioning faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.”.
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Advancing Sustainability: Necessary for the Planet and Smart for Business
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
DESCRIPTION: When the first draft of history is written, last November’s COP26 climate summit may be viewed as a turning point. We know that businesses simply cannot achieve their decarbonization goals without focusing on water. By Christophe Beck, President & CEO, Ecolab. SOURCE: Ecolab.
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New Zealand, BlackRock Launch $1.2 Billion Climate Infrastructure Fund to Accelerate Energy Transition Goals
ESG Today
AUGUST 8, 2023
According to BlackRock, the fund marks the firm’s largest single country decarbonization-focused project to date. In a statement announcing the launch of the fund, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink said: “New Zealand doesn’t just have the ambition to build a more resilient energy system and be a leader in decarbonization globally.
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Volvo Targets 75% Emissions Reduction per Car by 2030
ESG Today
DECEMBER 4, 2023
What we and other like-minded companies are trying to do is develop and scale up transformational technologies to decarbonize sometimes ancient industrial processes.” Jonas Otterheim, Head of Climate Action, at Volvo Cars, said: “We have previously used the COP summits to push collective climate action and COP28 will be no different.
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UK unveils hydrogen strategy based on offshore wind model
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 18, 2021
It comes at a time when there is high scrutiny of the country’s climate policies in the countdown to COP26 in Glasgow in November. New York announces initiatives to explore green hydrogen for decarbonization. By Kevin Ross, Editor-in-Chief of Enlit Europe and Power Engineering International.
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Three New Business Models to Achieve Carbon-Reduction Goals
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
They also will need new business models that support CO 2 reductions, such as the Cooperative Approaches defined at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement. Designing and implementing decarbonization pathways for utilities and private corporations.
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South American Finance Ministers Discuss Incentives and Mechanisms to Finance the Decarbonization of their Economies
Sustainable Development Network
JUNE 29, 2021
South America has abundant clean energy resources available and a huge opportunity to decarbonize power grids, transport, and industry across the continent, as well as to bolster natural carbon sinks and biodiversity. Macroeconomics of decarbonization, Day 2. Solutions for decarbonization, and Day 3. Green recovery.
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Three Reasons Why Tackling Deforestation Is a Business Priority in 2022 and How to Prepare
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The most recent UN climate conference, COP26, highlighted the role of forests and agriculture in ways we have not seen before. COP26 saw over 30 major financial institutions announce their intentions to eliminate the leading sources of commodity-driven deforestation from their portfolios.
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World's Leading Agri-Commodity Companies Deliver Roadmap To Reduce Emissions From Land Use Change
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
It is the next step in a commitment set out at COP26 by leading agri-commodity companies that manage large global trade volumes in key agricultural commodities, including more than half of the global palm oil trade and Latin American soy exports. The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C
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$1 Trillion Business Coalition Calls for Plans to Phase Out Fossil Fuels at COP28
ESG Today
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Efforts to secure global commitments to phase out fossil fuels in prior UN climate conferences have failed, with last year’s COP27 agreement only calling for an “increase in low-emission” energy and renewables, and COP26 including a pledge to “phase down” unabated coal use and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
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What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
Candidly, Gore is the reason I’m on the corporate climate beat, so I was inspired by the invitation to interview him as a virtual keynote session for SEMICON West , a conference focused on members of the semiconductor industry. Clancy: I want to go back to something you referenced in your opening remarks, which is the environmental justice issue.
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Going green: The future of hydrogen energy
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 23, 2021
This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Production costs.
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ASEAN Green Future Project: Further, Faster, Together
Sustainable Development Network
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
To further assist the ASEAN region and ASEAN member states in boosting their decarbonization ambition, several partners have teamed up to create the ASEAN Green Future project. The project aims to demonstrate how sustainable, decarbonized economies offer enhanced economic development and more resilient futures for the region.
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