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5 Companies Committed to Hitting Net Zero in 2022

The Environmental Blog

In 2019, the UK passed a law to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022. To be classed as net zero, a company must achieve a balance between the carbon it emits into the atmosphere and the carbon it removes.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update takes an all-of-the-above approach to decarbonize California. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING

DeSmogBlog

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. By ING’s own measure, it is responsible for 61 megatonnes of financed emissions in 2022. billion to the sector. LNG may be even higher.

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How the Oil Industry Indefinitely Delays Cleaning up Oil and Gas Wells in California

DeSmogBlog

billion in global profit in 2022. The second largest holder is Aera Energy, which was owned by Shell and ExxonMobil until 2022, and which retains 8,948 idle wells. While it made only around $500 million in 2022, the company was spun off a decade ago from Occidental Petroleum, a multinational with over $13 billion in recent profits.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Global Briefing: Sweden to set world's first consumption-based climate goal

Business Green

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. They have also set out draft reforms for Germany's clean energy law and legislation that could speed up grid development. The evidence is consistent, alarming and undeniable.".

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . During her five years with Quantis, Bande has advised some of the world’s largest companies in the food, cosmetics and apparels sectors, helping them define science-based targets, insetting initiatives and carbon pricing approaches. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 .