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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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This scrappy Australian recycling pioneer is the most sustainable corporation of 2024

Corporate Knights

The sector, moreover, isn’t on track to achieve net-zero targets, despite investments in new forms of low-carbon energy for steel plants. For example, Sims finally divested itself of part of its municipal recycling business – a large blue-box operation in New York City. Photo courtesy of Sims Ltd. In 2022, a B.C.-based

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

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Understanding emission sources in your portfolio For some organisations, scope 3 emissions may be easy to calculate, understand and reduce, such as those deriving from business flights and waste. South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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A Principled Stance

Chris Hall

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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The ESG Interview: Learn from the Past, Look to the Future

Chris Hall

This January marked the three-year anniversary of the Brumadinho Dam disaster in which 272 people lost their lives and millions of tonnes of toxic waste flooded local villages, becoming Brazil’s worst ever industrial disaster. Disputing divestment. And McMurdo’s caution about divestment is not limited to the energy sectors.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Million to Turn Landfill Waste into Renewable Biofuels ESG Investing Texas Pulls $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG Investing BlackRock Calls Texas Decision to Divest $8.5 Renewables Developer Avantus Renovare Raising $7.5

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Texas Lawmakers Grill BlackRock, State Street over ESG Investing: “We Wish You Weren’t There”

ESG Today

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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