World Benchmarking Alliance expands focus to 2,000 companies
The World Benchmarking Alliance has announced that it is expanding its focus from assessing 450 high-emitting sector companies to evaluating…
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Japan’s climate targets deemed ‘unacceptably low’ by groups
Japan‘s climate target of reducing emissions to 60% below 2013 levels by 2035 has been described as ‘unacceptably low’ by…
Commitment to climate measures unwavering, says UNFCCC chief, despite U.S. pullback
UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell has said that countries around the world are still committed the climate transition,…
Trump’s retreat from climate action will ‘worsen everyday challenges’ for U.S. consumers: WRI
The ‘significant actions’ taken by the Trump administration to slow US climate action and withdraw from multilateral agreements will “worsen…
Adaptation Fund, FRLD enter cooperation framework
The Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) have entered into a cooperation framework…
UK’s climate plan ‘sets example for the world’, says WRI
The UK‘s national climate plan is set to ‘propel the country to net zero’ and ‘sets an example for the…
90 parties to the Paris Agreement have submitted Biennial Transparency Reports
Some 90 parties to the Paris Agreement have already submitted their first Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), in what marks a…
Smurfit Westrock’s Garrett Quinn discusses innovations in sustainable packaging
The recent coming together of Smurfit Kappa and WestRock to form Smurfit Westrock has resulted in a harmonisation of sustainability…
EU businesses face ‘urgent’ need to align operations with environmental objectives
European businesses need to ‘urgently’ align their finance and investment to business models with the EU’s environmental and social objectives,…
Clean energy revolution will continue despite Trump, says WRI
The green energy revolution will continue in the United States, “regardless of who is in the White House”, Debbie Weyl,…