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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Article 4 of its foundational document, the UNFCCC, affirms the need to give full consideration to the impact that mitigation measures will have on countries whose economies are highly dependent on income generated from. Its not just lobbying.

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Use of Employee Incentives to Hit Climate Goals More than Doubles Over Past Year: Accenture

ESG Today

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement. over the prior year, after growing from 27% in 2021.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

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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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3M Achieves Science Based Targets initiative Validation, Strengthening Commitment to Decarbonization and Customer Innovation

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C trajectory of the Paris Agreement. This milestone reaffirms 3M’s ongoing commitment to climate action, decarbonization of its operations and portfolio of products and continual innovation on behalf of customers around the world   “3M has a long history of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

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Henkel Defines Net-Zero Targets

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C, as set out in the Paris Climate Agreement – and we are already too close to this threshold,” said Carsten Knobel, CEO of Henkel. This document includes supplemental financial indicators that are not clearly defined in the applicable financial reporting framework and that are or may be alternative performance measures.

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Standard Chartered to Engage with all Priority Clients in High-Emitting Sectors Over Next 12 Months

ESG Today

Among the key actions outlined in the document was a plan by the bank to engage over the next 12 months with all of its existing corporate and investing banking (CIB) clients identified as priority clients whose emissions reductions will be essential to reaching Standard Chartereds 2030 interim net zero goals.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The policy won’t affect money that has already gone out the door or commitments that have already been signed, there is no published calculation of the future subsidies that will now be foregone, and the documents provide no cost figures for 129 non-tax measures that could be shifted as a result of this week's announcement.