DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Akin to that demand, Milieudefensie now seeks to compel ING to cut its CO2 emissions roughly in half by 2030 and align its policy with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2020

Hundreds of Amazon employees have joined in solidarity, forming the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) to protest the company’s climate policies. AECJ seeks to push Amazon into adopting more eco-conscious practices, but Amazon has threatened the protesters with termination for violating its communications policy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Rapidly falling clean technology costs alongside mounting investor pressure, consumer demand for change, and tightening government policy is pushing more companies to ramp up their climate targets towards net zero and beyond. Carbon credits will play an essential, but controversial, role in hitting net zero," the report states.

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EDF + Business

JULY 22, 2020

Fortunately, a number of leading companies are rising to the challenge and responding stakeholder demands for ESG leadership. In order to stabilize the climate and put the global economy on track to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, in line with what the science demands, the private sector will need to play a leading role.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Strong, clear climate policies across power, transport and heavy industry, would help to support businesses to achieve climate goals, argues Volvo Car's. So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. Anders Kärrberg. In short, climate action is critical to our future success.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

More than 8,700 Amazon associates signed an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos demanding the company develop an aggressive climate action plan. But companies also told CDP about an upside: trillions in potential markets for low-carbon tech. Ikea added another €200 million to its investments in being carbon neutral by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As our sample, we took the communications of 14 EU players who were identified in a 2021 DeSmog investigation as key opponents of EU environmental policy reforms. Cefic stated that it did not lobby on Farm to Fork or pesticide targets, affirmed its support for the Green New Deal and stated its ambition to be “climate neutral” by 2050.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, how fast these markets rev up depends on demand from fleet buyers. One reason for all this: Batteries continue their journey down the price-experience curve, where increased demand lowers prices, further pumping up demand. Now, companies themselves are seeing the business benefits of proactive forestry policies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Brazil announces 'indicative' goal to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060. Brazil this week announced a new 'indicative' goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, ahead of this week's global Climate Ambition Summit. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

The chief sustainability officer tells BusinessGreen how the Indian business group is steering more than 150 companies behind a 2040 carbon neutrality goal. The Mahindra Group prides itself on giving its subsidiaries space to grow and innovate. But Ghosh claims the task is less complicated than it sounds.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

CEO insists climate crisis demands more ambitious targets, as he earmarks £1bn of investment to help the supermarket help hit net zero 10 years ahead of the government target. The UK's second largest supermarket chain has unveiled an ambitious new goal to hit net zero emissions by 2040.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Reversing the decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this will primarily be driven by a strong rebound in demand for fossil fuels in electricity generation. Awareness is high, with around three quarters (75 per cent) of UK respondents to recent consumer research now concerned about the threat of carbon emissions to the planet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

With Salesforce's suppliers contributing more than half of the company's Scope 3 value chain emissions, the new 'sustainability exhibit' appendix attached to its contracts is set to play a major role in its drive to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. In order to achieve net zero, and achieve 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

While renewables are part of this picture, this crisis presents an opportunity to invest and support the development of new fuels like green hydrogen that complement renewables and have massive potential for making rapid cuts to carbon emissions. Changing the status quo. The current energy mix and ways of thinking are not working.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.".

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

AT&T pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035, a step up from its previous goal to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 20 percent and Scope 2 emissions by 60 percent. Walmart pledged to become carbon-neutral across its global operations by 2040 — without relying on offsets. Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Announced as “the beginning of the UK’s path to net zero” the plan sets out a number of initiatives in areas such as energy, transport, carbon capture and flood defences. Prominent among these was an intention to advance faster along the timeline towards banning diesel and petrol cars – now scheduled for 2030 instead of 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. In this scenario, a zero-carbon electricity system would drive wholesale power costs of about $90 per megawatt-hour on average. The current status of U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Around the world, SUVs alone emit more carbon pollution than Canada or Germany , and are causing a bigger increase in climate pollution than heavy industry. North American suburban households consistently have higher carbon footprints than urban ones: one study in Toronto found suburban footprints were twice as high.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. JBS has recently announced a target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2040 that includes indirect emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Italy announces ban on new petrol and diesel cars, EU carbon prices hit record levels, and all the green business news from around the world this week. RUSAL opens new low carbon aluminium smelter. Our smelter in Taishet will help to address the high global demand for low carbon aluminium.".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Ultimately, how fast these markets rev up depends on demand from fleet buyers. One reason for all this: Batteries continue their journey down the price-experience curve, where increased demand lowers prices, further pumping up demand. Now, companies themselves are seeing the business benefits of proactive forestry policies.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

AT&T pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035, a step up from its previous goal to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 20 percent and Scope 2 emissions by 60 percent. Walmart pledged to become carbon-neutral across its global operations by 2040 — without relying on offsets. Take Amazon, for example.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19). The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2020

Ford’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050 and power all its manufacturing plants with 100% locally sourced renewable energy by 2035 makes it one of the few automakers to assume a leadership role for climate action. Their collective voice led the company to commit to carbon-neutrality by 2040.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 1, 2021

With a president who campaigned on taking action, a new Congress that is more supportive of change, and a mobilized generation of young people demanding it, now is the time for our leaders to find the courage to address the looming climate crisis as we find ways to recover from the pandemic. An accountability matrix for your leaders.

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ford’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050 and power all its manufacturing plants with 100% locally sourced renewable energy by 2035 makes it one of the few automakers to assume a leadership role for climate action. Their collective voice led the company to commit to carbon-neutrality by 2040.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

Hundreds of the world’s largest companies have agreed to use 100% renewable energy and set targets that commit them to reduce emissions at the pace that science demands. Most of these companies have also conveniently ignored that their own industry and trade associations have generally been fighting climate policy every step of the way.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

America's largest automaker unveils plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 by significantly ramping up its electric vehicle range and shifting all its operations to clean energy. GMExhibitZero [link] pic.twitter.com/dnPOBt7X39. — Mary Barra (@mtbarra) January 12, 2021.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Climate change and science diplomacy can never again be "add-ons" in our foreign policy discussions. Addressing the real threats from climate change and listening to our scientists is at the centre of our domestic and foreign policy priorities. AP Moller-Maersk reveals fast-tracked plans for first carbon neutral vessel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year Germany passed its new climate and energy plans , a set of cross-sector policies designed to cut emissions by 55 percent by 2030. RWE now hopes to be carbon-neutral by 2040, a decade earlier than Merkel's verbal commitment to a 2050 net-zero target. Near-term challenges for wind and solar.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2019, global demand reached a record 100 million barrels a day, driven in part by the needs of rapidly industrialising emerging markets. Yet when it comes to oil demand, there is little sign of this happening (3). History shows that predicting anything - in particular oil demand - is almost always wrong. million b/d in 1986.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak.

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