Businesses pile on with net-zero commitments
Check out these great summaries and graphs on progress in cement, steel, aviation, food and other “hard to abate” sectors. Imagine the innovation unleashed with a bit of incentive from carbon pricing~
Business
Finance “Gets” It, Takes Action
* 128 investment groups with $43 TRILLION in assets have committed to net-zero-by-2050 / 1.5oC max warming.
* Harvard divests from fossil fuels companies.
* Janet Yellen may regulate lending to fossil fuel companies.
* “ESG” disclosures may be mandated by the SEC.
Oil producers launched Facebook ads to counter President Biden’s clean energy plan
Soon after Biden released his $2 trillion climate plan, the world’s major oil and gas dialed up their presence on Facebook.
Exxon Considers Pledging ‘Net Zero’ Carbon by 2050
Remember the recent shareholder meeting, where 2 “environmentalist investor candidates” were elected to the Board? Well, it’s having an impact.
Will Carbon Labels Matter?
“We think of carbon as the new calorie,”