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VCM Code of Practice Launches, with Google, Unilever and Hitachi on Board

Chris Hall

With Google, Unilever and Hitachi among those already signed up to road-test the provisional code, VCMI is hoping more businesses will take up what it calls a globally standardised benchmark when using carbon credits as part of their net zero strategies. . Market-based solutions are critical to reducing emissions.

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Canada’s new anti-greenwashing rules are not as bad as oil and gas industry says

Corporate Knights

Earlier this month, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers publicly criticized the federal government’s new greenwashing rules, saying they “effectively silence” climate discussion, impeding companies from speaking to Canadians about their projects’ green credentials.

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What is the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

Sphera

To achieve this goal, participants agreed that GHG emissions must be halved by 2030 and fall to “net-zero”—meaning that emissions still being generated are offset by reduction of the same amount elsewhere—by 2050. 2°C reduction target, on the way to achieving science-based net zero targets by 2050. Net-zero targets.