Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

Net-zero pledges have become commonplace among corporations, financial institutions and cities, but questions abound as to whether those companies and governments have real plans in place to achieve them. In many cases, corporations or local governments don’t yet know how they will achieve net-zero status by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

In 2020, Shell announced a commitment to achieve net zero in its operations by 2050, and in 2021, the company launched its Powering Progress strategy , detailing how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero energy business by 2050 across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, with initiatives including investing in renewable and clean energy solutions.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2022

In the pursuit of its net-zero 2050 goal, Canada needs a rigorous strategy to require banks and other key financial system players, including Crown corporations, to fully align their operations with the country’s international climate commitments. And any delay means risk and means losing money.”.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2020

The oil giant updated investors on sweeping new strategy to deliver net-zero emissions across its entire value chain by 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2022

DESCRIPTION: How does a global technology leader make progress toward that “Mars shot” of net-zero emissions? Lenovo is proud to be working with Science Based Targets initiative to establish goals that support our vision to reach net-zero by 2050. KEYWORDS: ADR:LNVGY, Lenovo, Lenovo net zero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the eve of COP26, large banks have yet so shift fundamentally towards the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

Plant-Based Foods Leader Aligns with Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) to Set Measurable Actions for Achieving Net-Zero by 2050. announced today its commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net - Zero Standard.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

degree Celsius pathway, joining Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative. degree Celsius pathway by 2050, in support of the Paris Agreement. Our net zero strategy addresses both the corporate and investment levels. AB to align operations and range of investment strategies with 1.5-degree SOURCE: AllianceBernstein.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2022

These actions can deliver 60 percent of the emissions reductions needed for the industry to stay in line with the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, we were proud to publicly announce our goal to achieve net-zero global emissions across our value chain by 2040, joining more than 2,000 businesses around the world committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). What does it mean to achieve net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050? Why set interim goals?

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

Many of the world’s biggest banks face the enormous challenge of realigning their entire loans and investment operations in the coming years to put themselves on a credible path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “We Ultimately, best practices come down to are we seeing year-over-year changes in their capital flows?”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2020

Investor-led Transitions Pathway Initiative warns four in five firms in carbon-intensive sectors currently fail Paris Agreement test.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While companies are increasingly adopting emissions reduction measures, however, the report found that less than one in five are on track to hit net zero emissions in their operations by 2050. over the prior year, after growing from 27% in 2021. over the prior year, after growing from 27% in 2021.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Today, the airline is proud to share that the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a coalition that defines and promotes best practices in emissions reduction targets, has approved American’s 2035 target as consistent with levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. What this means. What else you should know.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Most recently the company committed to powering global operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025 as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. How will the company get there five years ahead of the initial 2030 target?

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Emissions scenario, the steel industry must reduce its carbon output by 25% by 2030 to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 – and the sector is nowhere close to being on track. “They can influence demand for green steel.”

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3BL Media

MAY 28, 2024

This report should serve as a wake-up call: we need a rapid decline in emissions starting from now – not in five years’ time – if net zero by mid-century is to remain a possibility.” This is far from achieving net zero – and breaches the Paris Agreement with a global warming result of 2.6

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Whoever invented the notion of herding cats never imagined the frustrations of guiding 190 nations along the complex path to net-zero. With little to no power to enforce compliance, Stiell has responsibility without authority.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DESCRIPTION: PARIS and SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 10, 2022 /3BL Media/ — The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched the Net Zero Playbook for Consumer Industries in collaboration with its members, Accenture and the Race to Zero. Click here to access the Net Zero Playbook for Consumer Industries. # # #.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Infinium, spun out of another company called Greyrock Energy , says because the biofuel (dubbed an "electrofuel") is made with clean energy and CO2, it's a "net-zero carbon" fuel. The fuel isn't yet being made commercially just yet, and it'll take at least three years to build a factory and start making it at any kind of scale.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Today, companies representing 40% of the stock market have committed to science-based targets around reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. . Worse, some have publicly pledged to be net-zero while actively blocking much-needed climate policies on an international scale. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. A statement provided by Shell welcomed signs that some form of new regulatory regime was on the way.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Updated and more ambitious Benchmark used to assess focus companies on their net zero transition plans. The results show that most focus companies are not moving fast enough to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement and reduce investors’ risk. C remains possible due to the growth of clean energy technologies.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The OECD report analysed how the climate alignment of finance globally is assessed, the current degree of alignment, and how financial sector and real economy policies and actions influence alignment with Article 2.1c By 2023, 77 countries had adopted climate-related transparency and information policies, like environmental taxonomies.

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ESG Today

MARCH 27, 2023

Climate-focused investor organization the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) announced today the launch of the Net Zero Engagement Initiative (NZEI), kicking off with a group of 93 investors, aimed at scaling and accelerating climate-related corporate engagement.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Lasting mitigation of carbon is critical for keeping emissions within the temperature goals set in the Paris Agreement. Backed by the IPCC, Science Based Target Initiative and the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign, carbon removals pose a huge opportunity to meet the crucial 1.5 degree or less global warming trajectory.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Asset managers’ net zero targets depend on governments living up to their commitments, says Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of AIGCC and IGCC and NZAM Chair. In the past 12 months, signatories have been taking a range of actions to implement their individual net zero commitments.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

HSBC announced last week that it will continue to support production in existing fields to provide an “orderly transition” to a net-zero world by 2050. HSBC will maintain its financing and investment in existing oil and gas fields at 2020 levels through 2030 and then reduce it by half by 2050.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Net Zero goal, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent removal of residual emissions to as close to zero as possible along the entire value chain , is at the heart of the European Green Deal and considered crucial to limiting global warming to well below 2°C in line with the Paris Agreement.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 31, 2024

Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist at Allianz, said: “After the Paris Agreement, the thinking was that the world needed a simple Google Maps-like tool to orient us on reducing greenhouse gases (GHG). We take that seriously and are supporting our stakeholders as best as possible in their efforts to achieve their Net Zero targets.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Credit ratings, research, and risk analysis provider Moody’s Investors Service announced today that it is seeking feedback from market participants on a new proposed framework to assess the strength of companies’ carbon transition plans, or “Net Zero Assessments” (NZA). C and achieve global net zero in 2050.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Credit ratings, research, and risk analysis provider Moody’s Investors Service announced the release of its first Net Zero Assessment (NZA), its new scoring system aimed at enabling investors to evaluate and compare companies’ decarbonization plans and actions.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The financial services firm recently completed the purchase of the first tranche of reef credits and plans to continue buying them as part of its net-zero commitment. According to Greencollar and investment of $4 billion Australian is required to meet water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

The new decarbonization goal will form the basis of Switzerlands second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, which the Swiss Federal Council said will be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by February 10.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Airlines have faced "flygskam" — or flight shame — which has seen some travelers shun air travel, heightening pressure for the sector to demonstrate that it can develop a flight path to net-zero emissions. The Advertising Association has been at the forefront of an industry-wide initiative in the U.K.

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