Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Last month, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) released its 2022 Report on Sustainable Investing , highlighting its commitment to be net-zero by 2050 and its engagement strategy to pressure companies to manage climate risks. requires an immediate end to fossil fuel expansion and a rapid phase-out of production.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Netherlands-based PFZW, one of the largest pension funds in Europe, announced that it has exited its investment in over 300 fossil fuel companies, including Shell, BP and TotalEnergies, over a lack of convincing decarbonization plans, with only seven remaining in its portfolio. billion of securities.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Free acknowledged that while these efforts are important and worthwhile, there needs to be more focus on decarbonization. Fortunately, in the past year, investors have started focusing more on decarbonization and offsets, according to Free. While ESG funds are at all-time highs, increasing by 50% this year to $2.7

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $125 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding as part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

KLA Commits to Cut Emissions in Half by 2030, Reach Net Zero by 2050. HH Global Ramps 2040 Net Zero Goal to 90% Emissions Reduction. Firmenich Commits to Net Zero Emissions by 2039, Climate Targets Approved by SBTi. BlackRock-Temasek Decarbonization Fund Backs Climate Action Solutions Startup Carbon Direct.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Actions and ambitions towards decarbonization have also increased. Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world.”. More than 1,000 companies have now committed to a net-zero-emission target in line with a 1.5°C Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Originally posted on GFANZ on September 19, 2023 The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Secretariat today launched a consultation on its work to further refine the definitions of its transition finance strategies and support financial institutions to forecast the impact of these strategies on reducing emissions.

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2024

TotalEnergies has set a climate goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and the company said that its focus is first to avoid emissions, and then to reduce them asset by asset, implementing the best available technologies, and to develop industrial projects for carbon storage to address residual emissions.

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2023

In additions to significantly growing its dial-movers list from 60 companies to 105, the expectations for those companies has been expanded to incorporate biodiversity risk and climate lobbying, in addition to net zero target setting and climate-related disclosure. C scenario.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

billion green bond to build new net zero chemical plant, and more. Billion Green Bonds to Fund New Net Zero Chemical Plant Private Equity & Venture Capital Industrial Decarbonization Startup Celadyne Raises $4.5 Billion to Build Gigafactories Across Europe Dow Issues Inaugural $1.25

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The letter, signed by BlackRock Head of External Affairs Dalia Blass, was sent in response to a letter from the Attorneys General sent in August accusing BlackRock of acting with “mixed motives” in its pursuit of an anti-fossil fuel and pro-net zero agenda, indicating “rampant violations” of its fiduciary duty to the states’ pension investors.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

Similarly, Accenture has found – as exemplified by assessing the 1,000+ largest listed European companies – that the vast majority are not on track to hit their net zero climate goals. Reaching net zero. Still however, there is no standardisation on how to evaluate and validate forthcoming targets.

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ESG Today

MARCH 27, 2024

politicians that the firm “boycotts” energy companies, stating that “BlackRock has never supported divesting from traditional energy firms.” Fink wrote: “Even the most climate conscious among them saw that their long-term path to decarbonization will include hydrocarbons, albeit it less of them, for some time to come.”

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Deutsche Bank Ties Senior Exec Compensation to Loan Book Decarbonization Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Carbon Accounting and Management Startup Greenly Raises $52 Million Fullerton Fund Management Raises $100 Million for Decarbonization Opportunities-Focused Private Equity Fund KKR Acquires Majority Stake in U.S.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

BlackRock’s website also carries a ‘2030 net zero statement,’ which states that “our role is to help them navigate investment risks and opportunities, not to engineer a specific decarbonization outcome in the real economy.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

anti-ESG push has seen Florida pull $2 billion in assets from BlackRock’s management, placed on a list of ESG-supporting asset managers subject to potential divestment by Texas, and subject to accusations of “boycotting” energy companies by 19 state Attorneys General, including Tennessee. and holding back energy companies from producing oil.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In 2021, we launched the Zero Carbon Project to help our top suppliers halve their CO2 emissions in less than five years. We couldn’t have initiated such an impactful project if we hadn’t been able to bring together our various experts on the environment, decarbonization, digital services and more.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

BNEF expects a larger jump in 2023 thanks to even more generous tax credits for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) included in the US Inflation Reduction Act, and an acceleration in net-zero transitions by European companies. The divestment movement will wane. Julia Attwood, head of sustainable materials.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

A 2050 net-zero vision may be an inspiration, but it is not a plan. This transition will require a far sharper focus on short-term, sector-specific benchmarks tied to decarbonization pathways — starting with the high-impact industries that matter most for solving the climate crisis. . Integrate climate into core business.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On a panel discussing Climate Engagement Canada – an initiative to foster dialogue between finance and industry for a just transition to a net-zero economy – TD Asset Management’s managing director, Priti Shokeen, said that her team now expects portfolio companies to make sustainability disclosures.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

Moreover, an academic study just published in the Journal of Banking and Finance found that “decarbonization selling pressure” does negatively affect the stock prices of divested firms and contributes to the reduction of these firms’ carbon emissions. Indeed, this year’s proxy season in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 11, 2023

The Church of England has announced it will divest from Shell, finally acknowledging the failure of more than a decade of investor efforts to convince the oil and gas sector to align with global climate goals. The respected investor is now divesting from all fossil fuels by the end of 2023 and will no longer try to engage with oil and gas.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

These goals include net-zero GHG emissions economywide by 2045 and net-negative emissions thereafter, along with a 40% reduction in statewide GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% by 2050. SCE’s Long History of Clean Energy Action. Department of Energy and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Million Exec Moves Caterpillar Appoints George Moubayed as Chief Sustainability Officer Reports, Surveys & Studies Climate Tech Investment Falls in Tough Market, But Hits Record Share of VC and PE Funding: PwC 80 Million Kilometers of Grid Investment Needed by 2040 to Meet Global Climate Goals: IEA

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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