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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness. Indeed, in these locations zero-carbon steel can be competitive with blast furnaces completely without subsidies.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates. We believe that Barclays can make a real contribution to tackling climate change and help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.". Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. The company aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement, largely by helping its customers switch to electric vehicles.

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UN climate conference more productive than you think

Sense and Sustainability

Fortunately, the ‘ambition mechanism’ from the Paris Agreement — the process it establishes to periodically review countries’ progress toward meeting their commitments to address climate change, and to ratchet up their ambition over time — worked. This is a welcome step.

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A Just Transition is an Orderly Transition

Chris Hall

In the race to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, many companies are jeopardising success by leaving workers and communities behind. The decarbonisation of our global economy is most likely to succeed in the short timeframe required if those most affected by the transition are brought on the journey.

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Church of England Pensions Board Slashes Carbon Intensity by a Fifth

Chris Hall

This week the pension fund – which manages the retirement assets of current and former employees of the Church of England – revealed its latest Stewardship Report , in which it stated that it was a decade ahead of its target in achieving net zero carbon emissions across its investments.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.