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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

Understanding the extent of this transition risk, and its impact on investor returns, is vital in the construction of net zero portfolios. Net zero portfolios aim to reduce aggregate carbon emissions to zero by a specific date. In this way, net zero portfolios can be a tool for both divestment and engagement.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

McMurdo anticipates more such rebellions this year, which he says reflects the pervasive greenwashing evident in net zero plans. LAPFF focused on changes to executive pay and discussed Persimmon’s commitment to ensure that all new homes are net-zero by 2030. Disputing divestment.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2024

dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 30, 2022

An SMB’s customers, whether they’re consumers or other companies, expect the organizations that they do business with throughout their supply chains to run smart, sustainable operations. Cieplinski: Sustainability has become a competitive necessity. We take care of shipping, taxes, and any cross-border implications.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 16, 2022

which recently saw 19 Attorneys General sign a letter accusing BlackRock of acting with “mixed motives” in its pursuit of an anti-fossil fuel and pro-net zero agenda, and Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar place BlackRock and several other asset managers on a list for potential divestment for allegedly boycotting energy companies.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

To achieve the Agreement’s goal of net-zero emissions globally by 2050 , we must significantly boost energy efficiency and greatly accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels, and toward new fuels such as green hydrogen and renewables such as wind, solar and thermal. housing market typically works.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

In short, companies should deploy holistic frameworks of operational and supply chain due diligence, to meet increasing regulatory scrutiny and maintain their social licence to operate.” She continues that companies should have clear policies and proactively assess the potential adverse impacts of their operations on people and the planet.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is anchored in our comprehensive net-zero science-based targets and an ambitious impact plan for 2025 that includes saving 800 million tons of CO2 emissions for our customers by that time. We’re also regularly recognized for our ESG performance. Being an impact company: Front, center and together.

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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Over the past decade, many asset owners have made divestments out of fossil fuels. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5 trillion, according to data provided by the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Database.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

A fragmented policy environment for the net zero transition requires investors to adopt a holistic approach to engagement, says BNY Mellow Sustainability Head. If global temperatures rise above 1.5°C, However, she noted that the climate policy globally remains insufficient.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

There is also the delicate matter of future nature-based land-use and food production conflicts facing investors and soft commodity-driven deforestation, representing other potential clouds on their net zero commitments. This reflects how tightly integrated the world’s supply chains have become.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Disorderly transition and portfolio risks loom large. 2025 will cause a fundamental re-appraisal For investors with 2030 and net zero commitments, the Stocktake / Ratchet cycle will show that success from significant company and policy engagement since 2015 has been difficult to spot. None of this will be fun.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is leading to a rapid reappraisal of ESG risks by asset owners, including enhanced scrutiny of human rights and governance risks across portfolios, and a reaffirmed commitment to net zero targets. . How are companies replacing those business ties?”? .

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

According to research by MSCI, nearly half (44%) of listed companies have now set decarbonisation targets, representing an eight-percentage-point increase than was reported in the October 2022 MSCI Net-Zero Tracker , but only 17% of those targets would align with the 1.5°C The Church Commissioners, which manages the CoE’s £10.3

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the agricultural commodities sector, companies must commit to adopting climate-smart approaches at scale, both on and off-farm, including the elimination of deforestation from supply chains. Oil and gas- divest or engage? Current trends point to significant GHG emission increases.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As Europe heads for an uncertain winter , the fossil fuel sector is piling it on black, with coal firms planning to increase thermal coal production by a third, OPEC+ hiking oil prices with a new production cut and the UK putting its net zero targets in jeopardy by offering new oil and gas licences.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It will help investors get up to speed on the least-understood risk in the economy. “This strategy is designed for the real, system-wide adjustments that will make sure we’re not divesting, we’re investing in a climate resilient economy.” Further, only 9% have implemented a response to their physical risk exposure. “It

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Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2024

Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber opened her testimony asserting: “Climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and nature loss … pose material financial risks to investment portfolios, business operations and supply chains, thus to the long-term stability of our markets and the economy.”

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Averting this cataclysm requires the reduction of global anthropogenic greenhouse (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050. Balancing act The road to net zero is inextricably linked to the phasing out of fossil fuels. The transformation of the global economy will take US $9.2 trillion in annual average spending , US$3.5

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

Speaking at the time the reporting requirements were announced, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Hands said: “If the UK is to meet our ambitious net zero commitments by 2050, we need our thriving financial system, including our largest businesses and investors, to put climate change at the heart of their activities and decision making.”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Despite the precariousness of the pathway to net zero, COP26 generated a renewed sense of urgency and optimism as to how to support emerging markets and deal with heavy greenhouse gas emitters. That does not mean divesting to ensure the portfolio looks good in the quarterly report.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This underscores how intrinsically linked nature and climate are, highlighting the need to end deforestation in order to achieve net zero commitments. Divestment, while a contentious strategy, should be considered a last resort. Not having access to data or agreed metrics shouldn’t prevent action now.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

Nature is at the base of every supply chain. For now, business understanding and disclosure of nature risk – both from investee firms’ direct operations and along their supply chains – is patchy at best, with firms in the APAC region lagging global peers. Ecosystem services are absolutely critical to the creation of GDP.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Environmental issues have been a top priority for trustees, particularly with the publication of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports and various commitments to net zero,” she says. Understanding how a portfolio addresses or contributes to systemic risks will help trustees plan for the long term.”.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

Carbon-Free, Infrastructure & Other (CFIO) reported a Net Loss of $174 million ($0.35 This compares to a second quarter 2021 Net Loss of $486 million and non-GAAP Operating Earnings of $47 million, which included results of the divested fossil and solar assets. per share). changes in tax laws and regulations.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

The European Parliament this week backed a robust version of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which includes the finance sector in rules to hold firms accountable for human rights and environmental harms along their supply chains.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change Divestment Supply Chain 52

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. As part of this commitment, SCE aims to deliver 100% carbon-free power to customers in terms of retail sales by 2045.

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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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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

For sustainable tech to be possible, funders, including investors, philanthropists, and foundations, must develop a two-pronged approach of intentional investments in those leading justice-centered approaches to technological and economic transitions and informed divestments from extractive and fossil-fuel-dependent systems and enterprises.

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