GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Machine learning, AI, automation and other solutions can slash firms' carbon emissions and energy usage while boosting their productivity, writes IBM's Ana Paula Assis. Understanding the energy and carbon footprint of a firm's assets can be complex. But we have only scratched the surface on the changes that can be made.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

What are the big priorities for COP? Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022. But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. Where are the main challenges? Nature and finance.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The deal has been hailed as a major coup for multilateralism , and as a crucial milestone in countries' efforts to meeting the goal, agreed by governments last December , to ensure 30 per cent of the Earth's land and sea are granted protected status by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Pressure grows on the government to ramp up net zero policies and diplomatic efforts ahead of COP26. To underpin these efforts, public and private investment for climate action and restoring nature should be ramped up to the equivalent of at least two per cent of the UK's GDP each year, the five-point plan states.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 put significant pressure on both organisations and governments to urgently act now. COP27 is pushing the agriculture industry to think and, in many cases, operate differently. As a dairy cooperative, we work hand-in-hand with our farmers and therefore have a significant role to play in the agricultural industry.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Since the convention’s establishment, the countries involved meet annually during the Conference of the Parties (COP). 30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Corporate attendance has been typically limited to a handful of extractive industry and pharmaceutical firms, who attend in a largely defensive capacity. This is a multilateral institution, it brings together governments," Nele Marien, forest and biodiversity coordinator of Friends of the Earth international, told BusinessGreen.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It’s not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you’ll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing - but doing another. But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness. Simply put, they are lying. This is a climate emergency.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. At the launch event, Denmark's minister for climate, energy and utilities said he hoped the initiative would usher in the end of new fossil fuel production.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

COP26 has seen fossil fuels mentioned for the first time in a UNFCCC cover text and the launch of a pioneering alliance of governments committed to phasing out oil and gas production. Jørgenson said the end of fossil fuel production would only come when governments moved to legislate for it.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. Consequently, the level of species extinction is truly alarming.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Blanton, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy , and Ben Ratner, Associate Vice President at EDF. For all the attention to corporate net zero by 2050 commitments, the reality is that actions in this decade will be decisive for both the planet’s warming trajectory and energy firms’ viability in the energy transition.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. Fortescue unveiled a green ammonia dual-fuel ship at COP. Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Do the next best thing and read our COP reflections.  In funds, Active Impact Investments and Congruent both launch their third funds.   The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures. Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Late last month Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg's offered an inimitable assessment of the climate talks to date, dismissing them as "blah, blah, blah", as she again decried the failure of governments to actually curb global emissions. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. is closing fast.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Government yet to make a decision on COP26 postponement, as observers warn diplomatic challenges would remain if Summit is rescheduled. Just yesterday, the official government line was that COP26 is "still many months away and remains scheduled to take place in November".

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

But we’re not quite at the point of churning projects out as fast as the bank can finance them or the developer can build them.  Meanwhile, CTVC continued to grow, passing 60,000 industry leading readers. Energy under the hood. Nuclear fission and fusion energy top the watch list.  Our experts were split.

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