Corporate Knights

JULY 24, 2024

But it contains no mandatory regulations or new public investments to bring emissions from the country’s more than 16 million homes , 564,000 commercial and institutional buildings, and 34,000 federal properties to net-zero. The document.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement; to develop and implement a plan to reduce “the carbon footprint and the environmental impact” of any products or services provided to Salesforce; and to publicly disclose their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. He welcomed the nudge from Salesforce. Supply Chain. Leadership. Featured Column.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

Significant changes to the UK’s grid connection process under the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (CP30) will impact project timelines and readiness criteria, posing both challenges and opportunities for developers (words: Vattenfall). By working together, we can overcome these challenges and deliver clean power for the UK.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

trillion by the early 2030s in the latest net-zero roadmap published this morning by the International Energy Agency. C has narrowed in the past two years, but clean energy technologies are keeping it open,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, in a release summarizing the 227-page document. trillion in 2023 to $4.5

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The document was more about the Liberal government’s attempt to roll back inflation and spending than it was about teeing up a major climate conference with some showcase policies, as has been the case before. . negotiator, told the Associated Press. . spending bill that pumps hundreds of billions of dollars into climate investments. .

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) believes its sector “can achieve net-zero by 2050” through a range of measures recommended to government and others in its latest report, Routes to Net-Zero 2050: 2020 Year End Summary. Ensuring new developments include vehicle charging points.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

After joining the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)’s Net Zero Carbon Ambition two years ago, the Company has submitted a time-bound plan within SBTi’s timeframe, consistent with the 1.5°C C protocol. Distribution Efficiencies - Reduced Direct Store Delivery transport idle time and improved vehicle fill rate across U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, in a new roadmap document. ” An offsetting strategy is also apparently in development to address all remaining emissions.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Implementation guidance aims to support a wide variety of net zero strategies. Updated guidance published by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) seeks to ensure investors have the flexibility they need to effectively apply net zero strategies across all asset classes they invest in.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. The first-ever mention of “transitioning away from fossil fuels” in COP final text was regarded as a major milestone on the path to net zero, even by those who acknowledged its multiple caveats.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A new report sets out a strategy for achieving net zero concrete and cement. Making Net Zero Concrete and Cement Possible appears to show, through its Net Zero scenario, how the sector can reach net zero GHG emissions and comply with a 1.5°C

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations are developing net-zero emissions strategies to take tangible climate action. Sustainable procurement practices have become one of the key enablers in achieving net-zero targets. Reducing scope 3 emissions is a key factor on the journey to net zero.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 7, 2022

Based on our assessment, a full 100 megatonnes of emission reductions – 43% of the needed reductions – are projected to come from policies that have been announced but that still need to be developed and implemented. This will aim to make electricity net-zero by 2035 and is a critical step to decarbonizing the rest of the economy.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 31, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include the passing of key climate legislation in Australia and the EU. Net Zero Economy EU legislators reached an agreement on new climate legislation this week to double the share of renewables in the bloc’s electricity mix by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 24, 2023

The document called for more study of global warming, “as a result of which glaciers and the polar caps recede, surfaces of lakes are reduced and ocean temperatures rise.” Last fall, Canada’s National Observer reported that life insurance giants Sun Life and Manulife, despite making commitments to be net-zero by 2050, still had US$15.9

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ESG Today

MARCH 4, 2025

International banking group Standard Charteredannounced the release of its inaugural Transition Plan, outlining its detailed plan to achieve its climate goals, including its target to reach net zero emissions across its financing activities by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Torrie estimates we will need to spend between $14 and $48 billion per year to achieve net-zero buildings by 2035, roughly on par with the $20 to $40 billion spent in Canada each year on routine maintenance and repairs. . This cannot be our parents’ retrofit program,” Torrie said. Our general mindset has to change, panellists said.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Scotland is a global leader in the development and deployment of tidal stream and wave energy devices, said a news release about the document. Nearly 9 GW of tidal stream and wave energy could be unlocked in Scottish waters by 2050, say the authors, contributing to Net Zero and energy security in Scotland and the UK.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2023

New Principles on the US Department of the Treasury will make net zero investment the “expectation for all financial sector actors”, US-based investor network Ceres has told ESG Investor. The nine principles include net zero commitments being aligned with 1.5°C,

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

At COP26 in Glasgow, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced plans for the UK to become the world’s first net zero-aligned financial centre. For the first time, the UK pledged to align the financial and private sectors with an environmental net zero goal,” Karen Ellis, Chief Economist at WWF-UK, told ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The COP28 decision text, released Wednesday morning, included language about “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems” and “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner so as to achieve net zero by, or before, or around 2050 in keeping with the science”.The

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Launched in 2022, Renew promised Danone would reconnect with a sustainable profitable growth model, partly by taking a more science-led approach to product development, including expansion of its health and nutrition portfolio. increase in like-for-like sales in its 2024 annual results , and a recurring operating margin of 13.0%.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

Certification systems Certification systems provide frameworks and criteria for evaluating buildings against specific sustainability goals, helping to guide and incentivize the development of environmentally responsible structures.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

United has made substantial investments in companies developing technology to reduce aircraft emissions, but Natron is the first that has the potential to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint from United's ground operations.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

We have also mapped our actions to specific targets within the UN Sustainable Development Goals ( page 18 ) to provide greater clarity on how our actions complement these broader global priorities. We hope that our new report format proves more user friendly and accessible for readers.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

This ambitious document outlines support for the low carbon sector via the creation of 250,000 new green jobs and via direct industry investment. Every job has the potential to become ‘green’ as the world moves to combat climate change, and there are a huge range of skills which will support the transition to a net zero economy.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. A central plank was the policy paper “Powering Up Britain” , which presented plans for tackling energy security and net zero.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Responses to the climate crisis have so far “not been adequate,” the document says, “while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” The pope criticizes other wealthy countries for obstructing climate policy in order to protect their “national interests.”

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As the focus sharpens on how governments and businesses are turning net zero commitments into action, We Mean Business Coalition, CDP, Ceres and Environmental Defense Fund have this week released a new report to help companies accelerate their climate journey – via credible climate transition action plans (CTAPs). of warming.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

New guidance on portfolio alignment metrics by the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) has received a mixed response with some seeing it as a foundation for further efforts, while others have warned it may serve to dilute institutions’ focus on heavy emitters. . C of global warming by 2050. .

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 30, 2021

Download the document. This roadmap has been developed by Ricardo Energy & Environment on behalf of FoodDrinkEurope. It assesses the climate impact of the European food and drink manufacturing sector, and sets out some of the available pathways for decarbonisation to net zero by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The European Union, China, the United Kingdom and about 20 other countries are developing such taxonomies as a way of discouraging greenwashing and channelling investment to the climate transition. This might include well-documented plans for mothballing facilities and timelines for staff retirements or reassignments.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. However, the report warns that change will not happen unless there is a radical shift in how industry works together to enable a market transformation.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2024

July 18, 2024 /3BL/ Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced validation for its near-term and net-zero science-based targets from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), as part of a mid-year update on its environmental initiatives, highlighting progress in reducing emissions across its operations and supply chain.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The future stability of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is under scrutiny after a member group appeared to distance itself from updated UN-endorsed rules for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. . NZBA open letter highlights risks from divergent responses of stakeholders to climate emergency. .

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ESG Today

JUNE 17, 2024

The directive also targeted the proliferation of private environmental labels, requiring them to be reliable, transparent, independently verified and regularly reviewed, and allowing new labels only if developed at the EU level, and approved only if they demonstrate greater environmental ambition than existing label schemes.

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