TCFD launched and headed by Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York.
Sets a global goal of limiting global warming to below 2ºC, signed.
Final Recommendations released.
Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C.
UK sets national Net Zero Carbon by 2050 Target.
All UK listed companies and large asset owners to disclose in line with the TCFD recommendations by 2022”.
stops accepting targets with 2°C ambition.
The Co-op has moved the deadline for ensuring that 100% of the packaging on its own-brand lines is easy-to-recycle forward from 2023 to summer 2020.
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A portfolio of 11 office properties across Liverpool and Greater Manchester have been verified as net-zero carbon against the UK Green Building Council's (UKGBC) standard, in what the developer has described as a national first.
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Vogue Italia does not publish any photos in its latest issue, in a bid to highlight the environmental impact of producing a glossy fashion magazine.
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Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has pledged to bringing the greenhouse gas footprint of its onshore plants and offshore fields to"near zero" by 2050.
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US retail giant Kroger has unveiled new steps to eliminate food waste across its company by 2025 by prioritising food donations and technological innovations to drive action through a Zero Hunger, Zero Waste initiative.
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The National Trust has unveiled a plan to become net-zero carbon by 2030, which features one of the UK's biggest forest expansion projects - planting 20 million trees.
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letter calls for greater disclosure of climate-related risks and promises to launch new investment products that screen fossil fuels.
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Quorn Foods is introducing labels detailing the carbon footprint of its products to some of its most popular lines.
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British Airways has begun offsetting all emissions generated through domestic flights within the UK, at no additional cost to passengers. As part of its parent company - International Airlines Group (IAG) - target from October to reach netzero by 2050.
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Global brewer AB InBev has signed a 10-year agreement with global energy giant BayWa r.e to purchase 100% renewable electricity to power its Western European breweries.
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Wates Group has committed to new goals that target zero waste from all onsite operations and zero carbon emissions from operations and vehicle fleets by 2025.
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Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda will strive to achieve carbon neutrality across its value chain by 2040.
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Microsoft pledges to become carbon-negative by 2030, with the goal of removing carbon from the atmosphere that the company has emitted since it was founded in 1975.
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United Arab Emirates' national airline Etihad announced ambitious targets to halve its 2019 emissions by 2035 and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Nestlé extends its 2025 commitments to include the reduction of virgin plastics by one third in the same period.
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PepsiCo announced that 100% of the electricity used across its US operations will be renewable by the end of 2020.
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Debenhams has launched ambitions to source 100% of its cotton from sources certified as sustainable by 2022; to switch to FSC-certified paper for swing tags by December 2020; to remove plastic lamination from all swing tags by December 2020, and to divert all old fashion stock and samples from landfill or incineration.
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Visa has met its target to use 100% renewable electricity across its global operations.
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The Janus Henderson UK Property PAIF has committed to become operationally net zero carbon across its portfolio by 2030.
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Mastercard has teamed up with a clutch of major companies, global banks, and transport authorities to deliver a fresh collaborative drive to ramp up private sector climate efforts, including a pledge to plant 100 million trees over the next five years.
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Lloyd's Banking Group has pledged to halve the carbon emissions generated by projects it finances by 2030 and commited to source 100% renewable electricity.
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Starbucks has announced new targets to halve carbon emissions, water use and waste sent to landfill by 2030.
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AstraZeneca has pledged to become carbon-negative across its entire value chain by 2030, with an interim ambition of reaching net-zero operational carbon emissions from operations by 2025.
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Global hotelier Accor has committed to remove all single-use plastics from guest-facing operations by 2022.
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NHS England is establishing an expert panel to chart a practical route map this year to enable the NHS to get to ‘net zero’.
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Sainsbury's has pledged to invest £1bn in order to become a net-zero business across its own operations by 2040.
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Pandora joins the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), pledging to become 'carbon neutral' by 2025.
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Asda has committed to halving its Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (power-related) emissions by 2025, under new targets which it claims are aligned with a 1.5C trajector.
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Bafta delivers its first carbon-netural ceremony, by investment in numerous initiatives to decarbonise and reduce the resource impact of the awards ceremony.
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UK aviation chiefs have signed up to a plan to deliver net zero emissions by 2050, pledging to accelerate the use of more efficient aircraft, modernise flight operations and drive the market for low carbon fuels made from waste.
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Barratt Development has pledged to reduce direct (Scope 1 and Scope 2) emissions by 29% by 2025 and cut indirect (Scope 3) emissions by 11% by 2030.
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Sky has unveiled a new commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 through strategies to make its products more energy efficient, its film and TV more sustainable and by engaging consumers and the value chain to "go zero".
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Lego has vowed to eliminate virgin fossil-based plastics from its products within a decade, by investing heavily in recycled and bio-based materials.
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Royal Bank of Scotland will stop lending to energy companies that fail to align with the Paris climate agreement goals by 2021.
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Multinational cement and building materials giant Cemex has pledged to reach net-zero across its operations and products by 2050, as part of a new climate action strategy.
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JP Morgan Chase is set to become the latest global banking giant to restrict lending to the most carbon intensive fossil fuel projects.
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Volkswagen’s chief executive has pledged to employ a young climate campaigner to “aggressively” challenge the company’s environmental policies, as he acknowledged the world’s largest carmaker was moving too slowly in the race to roll out electric vehicles.
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Mining giant Rio Tinto says it wants its globe-spanning operations to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Energy company Drax has announced it is planning to cease using coal at its Selby power station in North Yorkshire in March 2021, bringing half a century of coal-fired power generation to an end next year at the UK’s largest power station.
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Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has signed a €1.4 billion sustainability-linked loan deal aimed at pushing the Irish state-owned energy firm to deliver on its emissions goals and scale up its renewable energy capacity.
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Telecommunications giant O2 has pledged to achieve net-zero across its entire business and mobile network by 2025 - a move it claims will make it the UK's first net-zero mobile network provider.
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Nestlé has announced that its European business is working towards ensuring packaging is 100 percent reusable or recyclable by 2025.
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General Motors (GM) will spend $20bn (£15.25bn) on electrifying its vehicle portfolio by 2025, as part of a new electric vehicle (EV) strategy.
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Iceland has posted an update to its commitment to remove all plastics from own-label product packaging by 2023, revealing that it now uses 29% less plastics in these applications than it did in 2018.
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Waste management firm Biffa has announced a new sustainability strategy that will aim to quadruple the group's plastics recycling capacity and halve its emissions by 2030.
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Luggage giant Samsonite has pledged to become a carbon-neutral company by 2025.
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Luxury fashion and fragrance giant Chanel has committed to halve its carbon emissions by 2030, under a new 1.5C-aligned set of sustainability targets.
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UN Climate Conference in Glasgow.
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