Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

“. because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. FedEx has a plan to cut carbon emissions, including using 30% “alternative fuels” by 2030.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In Sub-Saharan Africa, women who own livestock are better able to cope with economic shocks, improving overall resiliency against poverty and enabling women to invest in education, health, and other essential areas for their families (World Bank, 2019). “Land-use change and carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon.”

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 7, 2022

A new report suggests that the money Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell. Read the full story in the New Yorker.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

It is not the Bretton Woods conference, the post-World War Two assembly that established the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, thereby reconstructing the global financial system. Reducing carbon emissions would relieve the mounting pressure of weather extremes. It’s what happens afterward.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2021

billion line of credit with a group of banks. To make that work, however, we would need to supplement the current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to include rules for accounting for carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. BlackRock has a $4.4 They could do environmental audits as well as financial ones.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Meanwhile, more than 9,000 companies have committed to actions to cut global emissions by 2030. COP29: Influential voices call for reforming the UN COP climate procedure Chinas carbon emissions have not yet peaked, but its rapid expansion of renewables means they are likely to soon. of national emissions. trillion (USD 9.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A closer look at the facts shows that big banks and investment firms are still financing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. (No surprise, the fossil fuel industry is a major sponsor of the Republican Attorneys General Association.).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

On July 13, Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power nearly 50 percent of its legacy operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, and parts of Illinois with renewable electricity.

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

All over the world, unique projects are being developed to mitigate carbon emissions. The firm's bold proposal is for Bank of Norrland, the world's largest timber structure. One such project comes from Anders Berensson Architects in Sweden.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Throughout the presentation, the speakers emphasized conservative priorities that are key to strengthening America’s energy leadership: reliability, affordability, domestic security and innovation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s not surprising to see companies lobbying to try to optimize this lucrative credit for their profits rather than ensuring the produced hydrogen is genuinely low-carbon, but it is astounding to see regulators at risk of following suit.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Xan Fishman of the Bipartisan Policy Center moderated a discussion between industry and policy leaders Catrina Rorke of the Climate Leadership Council , Sarah Stewart of Silverado Policy Accelerator , and George David Banks of CRES Forum , to discuss how American resources can play a significant role in shaping the future of global emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2022

It focuses on reducing carbon emissions and building resilience in the real world, whereas most activity in climate finance focuses on reducing risks for investment portfolios. Instead, finance needs to help mitigate climate change by reducing carbon emissions and building resilience.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

Canada’s financial sector needs to invest in climate solutions, but most of our banks, pension funds, and insurers continue to fund climate chaos. Recent reports have highlighted that Canadian banks significantly invest in oil, gas, and coal despite the clear science that fossil fuels worsen climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 3, 2024

Most companies don’t report the “hidden” carbon emissions generated by how their corporate cash deposits are invested, but it’s larger than many realize. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2021

New report illustrates how carmakers’ EV pledges mask their push to sell more polluting SUVs, jeopardizing efforts to cut carbon emissions now. And Canadians now drive the most carbon-spewing vehicles in the world. Report calls out automaker duplicity on climate change. Toronto, Ont. –

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Physics World

APRIL 16, 2025

The high-street bank HSBC has worked with the NQCC, hardware provider Rigetti and the Quantum Software Lab to investigate the advantages that quantum computing could offer for detecting the signs of fraud in transactional data. bn across all sectors of the economy. bn across all sectors of the economy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Canadians will demand that financial institutions invest in a climate-safe future It is hard to create a zero-carbon economy if banks and pension funds are still investing in expanding oil and gas extraction. Learn more and take action at stopthe413.ca. Read more about the bans here.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty “sustainable.” In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

Any achievements made in reducing the industry’s methane emissions were wiped out by an increase in oil and gas production. The oil and gas industry has been unwilling to reduce its emissions voluntarily, instead banking on ineffective technology like carbon capture and storage (CCS).

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2025

Backed by the powerful corn lobby, Marquis Energys push to bury carbon emissions underground has sparked a fierce debate in Illinois politics. The ethanol plant is banking on carbon capture technology to secure federal tax credits. Read the full story from Investigate Midwest.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Certain targeted taxes–for example, on large commercial buildings’ carbon emissions or on vacant properties–can both raise revenue equitably and align with broader climate goals. In addition, Proposition 13 requires supermajority public approval of new taxes that are targeted to specific programs (i.e.,

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

According to the World Bank (2022), it is estimated that nature-based solutions have the potential to contribute 37% of the required mitigation measures until 2030 to meet the targets set by the Paris Agreement. Tackling carbon emissions: Nature vs technology? Soil carbon sequestration for improved land management.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It is hard to create a zero carbon economy if banks and pension funds are still investing in expanding oil and gas extraction. Ontario wants to massively expand the use of fossil gas to produce electricity and lock us into large increases in carbon emissions and higher electricity prices. Read more about the bans here.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 8, 2022

Gas prices change people’s behaviour – and when gas prices are high, it can reduce carbon emissions. With a carbon tax and rebate – people pay a slightly higher price at the pump but are refunded all that and more with a rebate cheque. Why cutting gas taxes is the wrong move.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Green bonds can be issued by multilateral development banks (MDB) which issued the first ones. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively. City bonds are mostly AA.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As a city located at the bottom of two large watersheds and between two tidally influenced rivers, Philadelphia is already vulnerable to flooding from creeks and rivers overtopping their banks. Their work is an important part of the City’s long term commitment to reduce citywide carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I can now reduce carbon emissions and save on my electric bill at the same time." Partners included the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Solar States, Centennial Parkside CDC using grants from Spark Therapeutics and William Penn Foundation, Firstrust Bank and the National Energy Improvement Fund.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Slam Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant For Not Reporting Fire In Damaged Unit 2 Reactor Building Feb. And Saved $44.2

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

He was president of the Central Bank of Chile from 2016 until this year and has had a long career in international organisations and working on financial policies, including under several previous Chilean governments. The whole world values the reduction of carbon emissions and the protection of the environment.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

COP26 has four main aims , the first of which is to reach global net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century and to try to limit warming to 1.5 °C “There has never been stronger evidence that we need to act now and together,” Hardaker added. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

But even with that target, reform of Kazakhstan’s energy sector needs to happen if carbon neutrality by 2060 is to be a realistic goal. According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe and Central Asia. Whether this goal, 38 years away, is ambitious enough is questionable.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

You can also look into your bank or investment accounts to see if they are invested in fossil fuel companies and choose options that support greener companies. You can also look at how your own workplace contributes to climate change and advocate for changes that reduce carbon emissions. 3) What can I do?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Thanks to the leadership of Barbados, the text includes calls for global development banks to scale up funding and align with climate ambition, and to fill the gap for climate-vulnerable countries who face heavy debt and low access to capital.

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