The group says companies need to stop funding fossil-fuel expansion, ineffective carbon credits and anti-climate lobbying.
Business leaders are pushing for specific actions to combat climate change and asking for clearer policies to support such initiatives from governments at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt.
Companies’ more cautious decarbonization promises at this year’s climate conference could be a sign they are taking them more seriously.
The retailer has joined its fast-fashion rivals that have started reselling their clothes, a trend that tackles a piece of the industry’s daunting waste problem.
The tech heavyweight’s chief sustainability officer is charting a course to net zero by 2040, a task requiring the company to dramatically cut greenhouse-gas emissions arising from the use of its networking hardware and software.
Apple is adding pressure on suppliers to get on board with its carbon-neutrality goal, highlighting the difficulties in tackling greenhouse-gas emissions from global supply chains.
The bank’s 2021 ad campaign wrongly omitted information about its contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions, the advertising regulator said, serving a warning to companies that promote environmental initiatives.
A plan to regulate the production and use of lithium is drawing widespread concern that it could inhibit the development of supply chains for battery metals outside of Asia and create obstacles to the bloc’s climate and energy goals.
Many companies objected to the rules on supply-chain emission reporting as too costly and burdensome.
Companies are tapping into machine learning and weather forecasting to better pinpoint output and reduce inaccuracy fees for overshooting or undershooting predicted output.
