Business Green

MARCH 1, 2020

Republic of Ireland's state-owned energy firm teams up with BNP Paribas for loan deal linking interest payments to CO2 and renewables goals. By having sustainability at the heart of our operations, we can maintain a viable and successful business with the financial strength to invest in this future for all our customers," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

The firm aims to become a net zero business in the UK by 2035. We are proud to be making good progress on our journey to be a net zero carbon business in the UK by 2035 and for the entire Group by 2050.".

Retail 101

Retail Global warming Sustainability Demand 101

Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Forestry giant secures revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas to help drive sustainable forest management initiatives. Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets.

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Energy Monitor Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity 65

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Why "regeneration" is generating business buzz. In July, Bank of the West, part of BNP Paribas, announced a partnership with 1% for the Planet to launch a checking account designed for climate action. The State of Green Business 2020. Why every C-suite officer should care about plastic waste. State of the Profession.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Companies included on the browser tool's "block out" list include financial giants BNP Paribas and Santander, the group said. BNP Paribas has also recently moved to tighten its coal financing policies , with a target to end coal power financing in Europe by 2030, and also across the rest of the world by 2040.

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Mosaic

APRIL 21, 2020

announced today that BNP Paribas approved a $50 million increase in its current warehouse lending facility from $150 million to $200 million and extended the term by two years. “BNP Paribas has been a key lender to Mosaic since 2016 and has demonstrated the true meaning of partnership.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

They won’t have changed their business model. Coverage refers to the business units and financial products included in the commitment to measure, manage and reduce emissions. A centralized model may involve creating new business units with a dedicated remit spanning the institution. Organizational approach.

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Investment Carbon Sustainability Climate change 411

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Executives from likes of Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Macquarie, Lloyds, and Citi also join effort to develop credible pathway to deliver a net zero banking sector. Want to find out more about Net Zero Finance and the investment trends impacting businesses and investors of all types?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

H&M has issued a €500m bond linked to the high street fashion retailer achieving several of its 2025 sustainability targets to ramp up the use of recycled materials and drive down greenhouse gas emissions across its business and supply chain. The sustainability-linked bond issued last week "generated great interest" and was 7.6

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Fashion 68

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

In a move toward greater sustainability, French bank BNP Paribas has committed to ending financing to companies whose business models are dependent on producing beef or soybeans that are grown on land in the Amazon that was either cleared or converted in the past 13 years. .

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Climate change Education Agriculture Global warming 195

Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

A broader focus of sustainable finance is needed to support sustainable business models covering both environmental and social elements, argues Constance Chalchat from BNP Paribas CIB. Constance Chalchat is head of company engagement at BNP Paribas CIB (Corporate & Institutional Banking).

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Sustainability Education Health Investment 82

Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As stewards of these vital businesses, we have a duty to ensure they play their part in global efforts to address our warming planet. As such, MAM pledged to measure greenhouse gas emissions of all portfolio companies, identify pathways to reduce emissions, and develop business plans that contribute to a net zero economy by 2040, or sooner.

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Real Estate Investment Sustainability Transportation 61

Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

BNP Paribas, AXA, Danone, and Total among over 90 leading businesses to call on government to deliver recover plan that drives 'ecological transition'. Let us use the present challenge we are facing together as an opportunity for us all to put the environment at the core of a collective rebound.". "It

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

"Cadent will use the proceeds in line with our strategy of improving performance and service levels and delivering more sustainable outcomes for our customers, stakeholders and our business.". Further, we anticipate firms will use science-based targets and key performance indicators to build investor trust.".

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Hydrogen Carbon Sustainability Packaging 51

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Investors are estimated to have this morning placed more than £90bn in orders for the 0.875 per cent green gilt, the sale of which saw Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi utsche Bank, HSBC, and JPMorgan act as bookrunners, according to Reuters. Anne Marie Verstraeten, BNP Paribas UK country head, welcomed the UK's green gilt launch. "It

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

AXA, BNP Paribas, World Bank and others back plans for new Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

BNP Paribas Asset Management, the Church of England Pensions Board and Swedish pension fund AP7 launch research project that will identify hallmarks of responsible corporate climate change lobbying and develop a tool that will allow investors to compare and contrast corporate climate change lobbying strategies.

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Climate change Carbon-neutral Policy Government 58

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Besides being the right thing to do, it's the business-smart thing to do. Most large investors like BNP Paribas Asset Management are exposed to the seafood value chain via downstream actors, such as retailers or catering and need to take measures to reduce their contribution to the problem and preserve marine biodiversity.".

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Seafood Retail Biodiversity Sustainability 42

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Shell signed off its first commercial hydrogen project in China last week, as it continues to build out its hydrogen business on several fronts. Today, Bishop leads a team of around 90 people in the partnering, execution and operation of its hydrogen businesses. The realities for hydrogen are very different than back in 2005, however.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The leading retailer has come to an agreement with BNP Paribas on a new £850m revolving credit facility to support the delivery of M&S's 2040 Scope 3 net zero goal covering its value chain emissions. The new credit facility will run to June 2025, replacing the existing facility that is due to end in April 2023.

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Retail Sustainability Carbon Packaging 88

Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It comes just weeks after Eaton announced it had joined forces with French bank BNP Paribas to develop green finance solutions for businesses and property owners looking to make their homes more energy efficient.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

Freeman then calls on consumers and businesses to ensure their money is invested sustainably in order to "help the planet and all of us who live on it", arguing that "if you have a bank account or a pension, you are powerful - you can make your money matter". As Freeman speaks threads keep pulling away from the body of a man made from wool.

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Climate change Investment Sustainability Energy 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It comes just weeks after Eaton announced it had joined forces with French bank BNP Paribas to develop green finance solutions for businesses and property owners looking to make their homes more energy efficient.

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Technology Electric vehicle Sustainability Construction 36

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Who's news.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

However, integrating an understanding of the links between biodiversity loss and financial risk into business practices and policymaking remains a substantial challenge. The guide then outlines how each of these risks manifest in the real world in which businesses operate. And liability risk stems from the threat of litigation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

"We support the aims of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and the UK government's commitment to a Net Zero economy by 2050, which we recognise will require a radical reinvention of our ways of working, living and doing business.".

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Fossil fuels Methane Sustainability Climate change 101

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In May 2021, The Hague District Court in the Netherlands accepted the NGO’s arguments that Dutch law required Shell to align its business with the Paris Agreement objectives under the law’s “duty of care” obligation, and ordered the global oil giant to slash its CO2 emissions 45 percent by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

More than 50 global investment giants have called on companies to produce net zero transition plans and hold an annual shareholder vote on their climate strategies, as part of a push to embed corporate net zero governance standards across mainstream businesses. This article features on BusinessGreen's Net Zero Finance Hub.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Climate action and sustainability are the core issues of the festival which will focus on four predominant themes: Business & Finance, Policy & Influence, Science, Data & Insights, Arts & Culture. Business & Finance Climate change poses important new risks and opportunities for business and finance leaders.

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Climate change Policy Retail Government 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

UBS, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas have today joined a growing group of multinational banks that is working a new CO2 offset trading platform that aims to boost transparency in the burgeoning global voluntary carbon market. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Carbon Biodiversity Resilience Investment 69

Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

A number of big name banks, many of which have sought to strengthen their climate policies in recent years, are named in the report as some of the largest fossil fuel backers, including US banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, Canadian bank RBC, and Europe's Barclays and BNP Paribas.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon Europe 86

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Backed by £400,000 from the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the initial feasibility study is focused on E.ON's Blackburn Meadows combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which uses waste UK wood to generate 30MW of electricity and 25MW of thermal energy.

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Hydrogen Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 85

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

As major consumer governments start to translate these commitments into hard and fast legislation, businesses which have not taken deforestation seriously are woefully unprepared and face real risks.”. Deforestation Risk. BlackRock, which was found to have no commodity policies in place, scored just 3.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A host of top figures from business, finance, and academia led by former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have announced a global Taskforce to accelerate the development of voluntary carbon markets across the private sector, ahead of anticipated surge in demand for CO2 offsets as the net zero transition gathers pace.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The London-based business announced the latest capital injection earlier this week, confirming it will use the new funding to advance plans to provide "transparent, secure and accessible carbon markets" that can aid corporate climate action and net zero emissions targets.

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Carbon Demand Investment Technology 36

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

A total of 21 organisations have joined the initiative so far, including Oxfam, WWF, Comic Relief, Triodos Bank, BNP Paribas (UK), Ecotricity, and the Environment Agency Pension Fund, one of the UK's largest local government pension schemes.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

A raft of major global banks, businesses and governments are backing efforts to draw up a robust framework for assessing the complex financial risks posed by nature destruction and biodiversity loss, with a target announced today to finalise a set of guidelines for organisations within two years.

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