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Forecast: 8 million energy jobs created by meeting Paris agreement

Renewable Energy World

Globally, jobs in the energy sector are projected to increase from 18 million today to 26 million in 2050 if the world cuts carbon to meet the well-below 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement , according to a model created by researchers in Canada and Europe. The new study was published earlier this summer in One Earth.

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Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership

GreenBiz

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.

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Henkel Defines Net-Zero Targets

3BL Media

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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HSBC to stop financing new oil and gas fields except in Canada

Corporate Knights

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change. Canadian banks remain major investors and lenders for oil and natural gas developments and the infrastructure needed to expand production.

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Renewable Energy for Agri-food Systems: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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Pope Francis urges Western countries to take more dramatic action on climate before the world collapses

Corporate Knights

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.” In 2019, he declared a global “ climate emergency ,” saying a failure to act represents “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”