300 Business Leaders Ask Biden Administration To Double Emissions Cuts
300 leading businesses have signed a letter urging President Biden to slash carbon emissions by 50% no later than 2030.
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Mission Possible: Climate-Action Partnership Launched To Help Transform Heavy Industry & Transport
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is part of new coalition of climate leaders focused on supercharging efforts to decarbonize some of the world’s highest-emitting industries in the next 10 years.
More Than 130 Companies Have Made Science-Based Targets This Year Alone
Since the beginning of the year, more than 130 new companies have joined the Science Based Targets initiative, pushing the total number of companies close to 500 and representative of approximately one-eighth of total global market capitalization.
Global Business Is Transitioning To Low-Carbon Economy, Says CDP
Global corporations are in the process of transitioning to a low-carbon economy, according to a new report from CDP, but there are nevertheless large numbers still at risk of being left behind.
Business To Be Key Driver Of Global Climate Action, Reports CDP
A new report has concluded that business will be in a position by 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 3.7 billion metric tonnes, and be a key driver of global climate action. The new report, The Business End of Climate Change, was launched this week at the Business & Climate Summit … [continued]
Business Leaders Implore Negotiators For Long-Term Emissions Goal In Paris COP21
With the deadline for a climate deal to be reached in Paris closing fast, business leaders from around the world have called for a long-term emissions goal. In a letter to Heads of State and Government signed by members of the We Mean Business coalition, and organized by The Prince … [continued]
9 Large Companies Pledge To Go 100% Renewable
Originally published on Solar Love. To listen to the right wing crazies tell it, global warming and climate change are fictions created by treehuggers and do-gooders on the left who want to interrupt the neverending flow of government dollars that prop up the global business community — those public spirited business … [continued]
Big Oil & Gas Embraces Carbon Pricing
Six of the world’s major oil and gas companies have called for national or regional carbon pricing. They also propose that governments and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change work on creating “clear, stable, ambitious policy frameworks that could eventually connect national systems.” These actions would reduce global … [continued]
Corporate Climate Leaders Redefine Business As Usual
Over the past year or so, corporate climate leaders have begun to take responsibility when international agreements can only provide useful answers, not actions. We saw this demonstrated visibly last September when many Fortune 500 CEOs joined presidents, prime ministers, and ordinary people in New York to discuss climate at … [continued]
UK Organizations Look Toward 2015 Paris Climate Talks
A group of nongovernmental organizations from the United Kingdom has elaborated on the elements it sees necessary for the planned 2015 Paris climate talks among 196 countries to succeed. The group calls for all governments to accelerate their approaches to decarbonization significantly by initiating much stricter emission reductions and pursuing sustainable energy policies, … [continued]
