ESG Today

JULY 10, 2022

Pfizer Announces 2040 Net Zero Commitment. MSC Cruises, Fincantieri to Launch World’s First Cruise Ships Utilizing Hydrogen Power. SLC Management Commits $139 Billion Portfolio to Net Zero by 2050. K2 Launches ESG Certification for Fund Managers to Tackle Greenwashing Risk. ESG Services and Tools.

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ESG Today

JULY 2, 2023

This week in ESG news: IFRS releases global sustainability and climate reporting standards; Australia to introduce mandatory climate disclosure beginning 2024; AstraZeneca announces $400 million reforestation and biodiversity investment; IBM survey finds surge in CEOs with pay tied to ESG goals; UK environment minister quits over government’s climate (..)

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Agreeing to work collectively, the pact includes a commitment from each signatory to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 and achieve a 50% reduction by 2030. Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s As an example, he points to Big Time, the 2022 album by singer/songwriter Angel Olsen.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The article took a full six years to finalize after the wider agreement was adopted, with international negotiators expressing grave concern about the risk of greenwashing and human rights violations, particularly for Indigenous and other local communities in the world’s poorest countries.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Below is a summary of the discussions and key recommendations for achieving net zero emissions by mid-century. Phoebe Koundouria, a Professor from Athens University of Economics and Business, represented the shipping sector, “We need commercially viable zero emission vessels to start entering the global feet by 2030.”

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Restrictions, Brexit regulations, a ship stuck in the Suez Canal, extreme weather events and energy shortages impacted supply chains and prevented firms to meet their demand. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition. As a result, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.

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ESG Today

JUNE 2, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nucor Pioneer New Clean Energy Investment, Risk Sharing Models with Duke Energy Brookfield In Talks to Acquire Clean Energy Developer Neoen for $6.6

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rather than simply avoiding financed emissions, investors are growing increasingly interested in allocating capital towards a just transition to a net zero economy. billion to invest in climate solutions in hard-to-abate sectors like shipping and industrials. The fund, launched earlier this year, has raised US$1.5

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? This year, there has been much ado about zero. It’s becoming hard to read the green media, or even the mainstream media, without seeing new net-zero commitments from companies, governments, institutions and others. Now, net-zero is the flavor of the month. Joel Makower.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2022

Activist investors should be pushing companies much harder to get serious about going net-zero. Retail investors seem cautious about sustainable investing, and greenwashing is a huge concern. The good news is that we’re seeing further advancements in the areas of transparency and taxonomies that should rein in greenwashing.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As is their wont, many companies used the occasion to proclaim updated commitments — the buzzword du la semaine was "net-zero" with Walmart declaring a zero-emissions target by 2040 along with a big clean fleet promise and a pledge to "protect, manage or restore" at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030.

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ESG Today

JUNE 25, 2023

Million Tons by 2030 Government & Regulators Canada Invests $350 Million in Sustainable Aviation Technology Biden Announces $2.9 Million Tons by 2030 Government & Regulators Canada Invests $350 Million in Sustainable Aviation Technology Biden Announces $2.9

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

Russia has lost its ‘most favored nation’ status and Russian airplanes and ships are banned in many countries. Russia’s emissions reduction target is only 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and net zero by 2060. We have also seen sanctions against individual Russian oligarchs.

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