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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. A little over a year ago we issued our first green bond.

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Assent Launches Supply Chain Sustainability Reporting Solution for Complex Manufacturers. DWS Expands Paris Agreement-Aligned ETF Suite. Nordea Issues First-of-its-Kind Bond to Fund Climate-Focused Sustainability-Linked Loans. Anglo American Ties Interest on $745 Million Bond to Climate, Water & Job Creation Goals.

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Stopped in its Tracks

Chris Hall

Mandatory EU Green Bond Standard risks slowing issuance, but voluntary approach can still drive Taxonomy-aligned volumes. On the face of it, the market for green bonds is heading in the right direction, and fast.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Chris Hall

The FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 Index will give investors the ability to align their exposure with the 2015 Paris Agreement using the TOPIX 500 as a base universe,” he said. Green bond designations represent the majority of ESG municipal issuance, accounting for US$19 billion of par volume or 43.6%

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Take Five: Modi Feels the Heat

Chris Hall

The forthcoming third round of nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement should not just be 1.5°C-aligned, The result is an ESG investor’s nightmare, combining opaque supply chains with forced labour and resource-intensive manufacturing. billion) in green sovereign debt. C-aligned, but all-encompassing.

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ESG Explainer: China’s Climate Challenge

Chris Hall

This would put China within range of overachieving on its NDC non-fossil fuel targets, but it would be insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5C The country also controls the global EV battery supply chain, including 80% of the world’s raw material refining and 60% of its battery component manufacturing. billion in 2021.

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Bill Gates wants you to step up on climate

GreenBiz

Gates recently noted, for instance, the Swiss firm Climeworks ' success with direct-air carbon capture to improve cement-making, but its processes are 10 times more expensive than needed to erase the green premium of traditional cement-making. There's a whole new GreenBiz event in April for the emerging green finance space.).

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