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Holding Businesses to Account Now: Using CDCs to Address the Climate Emergency

GreenBiz

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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How Green Methanol Can Help Decarbonize the Chemical Industry

Sphera

The impact of CO2 emissions presents one of the most challenging issues of the 21st century. Chemical companies around the world are responding strongly to the challenge of decarbonization, with commitments to contribute to long-term climate protection goals by focusing on energy efficiency, recycling, and resource recovery.

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Electrification ‘not enough’ to meet Paris climate goals, consultant says

Renewable Energy World

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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$1 Trillion Business Coalition Calls for Plans to Phase Out Fossil Fuels at COP28

ESG Today

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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Three Reasons Why Tackling Deforestation Is a Business Priority in 2022 and How to Prepare

3BL Media

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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We Mean Business Coalition statement on the G7 Summit 2022

We Mean Business Coalition

The G7 Communique shows a patchwork approach that failed to live up to the promise made just a few months ago at COP26. The G7 reaffirmed the commitments made by Ministers earlier in the year, for example, to decarbonize power systems by 2035 and phase out coal. and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. .

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Guest Post: Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in a World Running Out of Time

ESG Today

So, it’s good news that businesses are now expressing a real desire to rise to the challenge the climate and ecological crisis presents. But it’s also true that this mobilization of private capital probably represents the best lever for mass decarbonization. Answering that question requires a brief history lesson.

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