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Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021

Andrew Winston

Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. I’ve left out some large stories, because it’s unclear if they’re blips or part of a larger more permanent shift toward sustainability. Here we go.

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COP26: Delayed Glasgow Climate Summit confirmed for November 2021

Business Green

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. With the new dates for COP26 now agreed we are working with our international partners on an ambitious roadmap for global climate action between now and November 2021.".

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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review

Clean Energy Trust

Credit: Stripe eadership from corporations to be committed first customers for products that can decarbonize the economy Several announcements around COP 26 highlighted corporates who had made commitments to be early customers for new technology solutions, in order to help create market pull?—?this

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November 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Infrastructure | Corporate Buying Coalitions | NET Power

Clean Energy Trust

The COP 26 climate conference took place! we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far. For example, $7.5 billion or so to electrify their entire bus fleet). So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right.

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Big Ag Delegates More Than Double at COP27

DeSmogBlog

The findings show that the number of delegates linked to powerful agribusiness interests has gone up steeply: from 76 in 2021 to at least 160 this year – double the presence at COP26 in Glasgow. This list includes some of the world’s most destructive companies, and they should only be included at COP with extreme caution,” she told DeSmog.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

Mon, 01/25/2021 - 00:30. The key for 2021 will be to supersize the good examples of these kinds of efforts and bring them together to help shape a decade of unprecedented partnership and action to 2030. Encouragingly, the official climate COP 26 hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November seems to be leaning in this direction.

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Biomethane could deliver 30% of the UK’s 2030 carbon budget in hardest to decarbonise sectors, says report

Envirotec Magazine

It would also create tens of thousands of jobs, boost energy and food production security, attract investment into the green economy and enhance Britain’s competitiveness on the international sustainable technology market. extension of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation beyond 2032. funding for innovation.

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