Corporate Knights

JULY 26, 2022

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

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. The company has committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. program to help people with disabilities lease new cars, scooters or powered wheelchairs.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

While the agreements and pledges arising from COP26 are laudable, they aren’t enough. For one, countries’ pledges for reducing carbon emissions by 2030 fall far short of the levels needed to reach the 1.5°C C global warming target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Instead, these 2030 targets are equivalent to 2.3°C,

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Governments know they must attract ESG investors to sovereign debt if they are to meet their net zero carbon emission targets by 2050. Data from the Climate Bonds Initiative reveals sovereign global, social and sustainable (GSS) bond volumes increased by 103% in 2021 raising cumulative issuance to US$193 billion compared to US$95.2

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

The Paris Agreement and the U.N. Through instruments like green bonds , investors can help finance critical infrastructure needs, the energy transition, and renewable energy projects. It can move much-needed capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

The basis for many of these is the EU taxonomy (and to a lesser extent China’s mandatory taxonomy for use of green-bond proceeds). China’s mandatory bond system covers six sectors it classes as green: clean energy, clean transport, climate change adaptation, recycling or resource conservation, anti-pollution, and energy efficiency. .

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