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26 Aug 2024

Mexico Carbon Forum 2024: Pioneering Climate Action in Latin America

Last week, EcoAct Business Development Executive for the Americas, Vittoria Zaniboni Morán, attended the Mexico Carbon Forum 2024 in León, Guanajuato. She described it as ‘the most comprehensive forum I have ever participated in.’ This year’s event centered on advancing the Latin America climate agenda by bringing together key decision-makers and stakeholders from state, national, ...
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1 Jul 2022

Science-based targets – what, why and how?

There is an urgent need for rapid climate action if we are to reach net-zero by 2050 and as a result, the movement for science-based targets (SBTs) has continued to gather pace. 2021 marked a year of significant growth for science-based targets with the Science-Based Target initiative finding that companies committing science-based targets now represent ...
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5 Mar 2021

Important update on SBTs for Covid-impacted businesses

The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on many businesses around the world. Covid-impacted businesses have struggled to deal with major disruptions, lockdowns and uncertainty has made it a difficult time for many. Despite this, we are pleased to see that prioritising climate action and the setting of ambitious net zero targets actually increased, ...
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7 Oct 2020

EcoAct launches first ever open-source carbon calculation to overcome remote working emissions gap

LONDON, 7th October 2020 – International climate change consultancy EcoAct alongside major corporates today published an open-source methodology for companies that need to calculate the impacts of an increasing number of employees working from home on corporate carbon emissions. The paper, written in collaboration with EcoAct clients NatWest Group and Lloyds Banking Group and following ...
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24 Aug 2020

Who will be the top 10 sustainable business leaders in 2020?

This year marks EcoAct’s 10th annual ranking of FTSE 100 sustainable business leaders based on their sustainability reporting performance. Ahead of the release of this year’s report, we look back at the trends across the last decade in corporate climate reporting and sustainable business leadership. 2020 is the beginning of the final decade when we ...
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28 Nov 2019

COP 25: Crunch time for the Paris Agreement

Faced with the challenge of making 2015’s Paris Agreement operational, this COP needs to be decisive. Having overcome some unprecedented political obstacles by changing host countries, then host continent, the COP 25 is going ahead. It will run from Monday 2 to Friday 13 December in Madrid. Special attention will be given to biodiversity and ...
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21 Feb 2019

SBTi announce important updates for science-based targets

Following the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C released last October, the sustainability community has been waiting to find out what this means for science-based targets. Up until now, a science-based target has been defined as one that aligns to the commitment of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 2°C or below. However, ...
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1 Feb 2019

EcoAct Group becomes first international science-based targets partner

Global climate change solutions provider, EcoAct Group, has been confirmed as a Gold Partner for science-based targets through the CDP. CDP collaborates with the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute, and the World Wide Fund for Nature on the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) that champions science-based target setting as a powerful way to boost companies’ ...
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8 May 2018

Behind the scenes of the science-based target movement

The corporate momentum behind setting meaningful Science Based Targets (SBTs) on carbon reductions is building with the total count of companies that have either publicly committed to or set SBTs now sitting at a healthy and ever-increasing total of 406 organisations. It is great to see progress being made recently, including many large players such ...
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