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Schneider Electric, EDF make major climate pledges ahead of One Planet summit

Terry Slavin, (Dec 11, 2017)

89 French companies sign up to climate action ahead of Macron’s green finance summit to mark two years since the Paris Agreement

Green finance: Turning risk into climate rewards for developing countries

Mark Hillsdon, (Nov 23, 2017)

The Climate Finance Accelerator and Green Climate Fund are among those trying to de-risk private sector investment in clean energy projects in poor countries

Climate briefing: Leading firms take ground-up approach to cutting aviation emissions

Angeli Mehta, (Nov 23, 2017)

Besides innovating on biofuels and electric planes, easyJet and others are demonstrating that much can be done to cut emissions before aircraft leave the ground

Climate briefing: Is aviation industry poised for lift-off on climate action?

Angeli Mehta, (Nov 23, 2017)

ICAO is finally moving on carbon offsetting rules, while leading airports and airlines like easyJet and BA are innovating in biofuels and electric aircraft to cut emissions

Climate briefing: The UK developers minding the energy gap in commercial buildings

Mike Scott, (Nov 23, 2017)

Landsec and Hammerson are innovating to increase energy efficiency and renewables use in a sector resistant to change

Climate Briefing: US firms feel the power of renewable energy targets

Diane Rojas, (Nov 23, 2017)

Growing numbers of American companies are joining RE100 at the same time as the Trump administration is pulling away from the Paris Agreement, reports Diana Rojas

Green finance: Can we bank on a clean energy future?

Mark Hillsdon, (Nov 23, 2017)

The green bond market is worth $100bn, but with $1trn needed to fund the low-energy transition by 2020, we assess what it will take to move the global financial system onto a more sustainable footing

Leading US firms tell COP23: ‘We are all in’

Terry Slavin, (Nov 16, 2017)

Walmart, Mars, Coca-Cola and Microsoft were among the US companies that defied Trump’s decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement as part of the 100-strong #WeAreStillIn delegation to last week's climate talks

‘We have to move from carbon-management to climate-stewardship’

EC Newsdesk, (Nov 13, 2017)

SPONSORED CONTENT: Sarah Leugers, director of communications for Gold Standard, talks about how the certification body is working with CDP and WWF to develop a Benchmark for Corporate Climate Leadership in this question and answer session

Cheat Sheet: COP 23 welcomes the bankers

Oliver Balch, (Nov 7, 2017)

Oliver Balch picks out the most important messages from the raft of research on business and climate change released ahead of this week’s UNFCCC conference in Bonn

10 steps firms can take towards a 1.5C world

Gabrielle Ginér, (Oct 11, 2017)

As COP23 begins in Bonn this week, BT's Gabrielle Ginér explains why BT, Carlsberg Group and Tesco have become the first companies in the world to commit to science-based targets compatible with keeping global temperature rises to 1.5C

#CleanGrowth:The UK has to create the right signals to speed low-carbon transition

Corinna Hornwall, (Oct 5, 2017)

A retreat from coal means Britain is leading the G20 on decarbonisation, but renewables growth has stalled and it is in danger of missing climate targets if today's Clean Energy Plan fails to tackle transport and heat emissions, argues Corinna Hornwall of PwC

Trudeau brings Canada in from the cold on climate change

Terry Slavin, (Sep 21, 2017)

The rise of Justin Trudeau as the ‘anti-Trump’, determined to drive through an ambitious climate plan, is a breathtaking reversal from his predecessor, who pulled the country out of the Kyoto agreement

Can Alberta put a cap on the oil sands?

Terry Slavin, (Sep 21, 2017)

Justin Trudeau's approval of Keystone XL pipeline raises questions among green groups over how serious Canada is about tackling its biggest source of CO2 emissions

Trudeau goes head to head with Trump on climate in trade talks

Diana Rojas, (Sep 20, 2017)

Faced with competition from more loosely regulated US companies, Canada is seeking to protect its green economy in talks to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement

Canadian mining firms clean house in hopes of leading the green economy

Carmen Gómez-Cotta, (Sep 19, 2017)

Teck Resources, Goldcorp and Hudbay Minerals are among the Canadian firms that are focusing on cutting their environmental impacts

Can 'anti-Trump' Trudeau unify Canada behind his bold plan to price carbon?

Diana Rojas, (Sep 19, 2017)

Canada's world-leading single framework to price carbon takes effect next year, after strenuous efforts to win agreement from most provinces. But he faces huge challenges ahead

Opinion: ‘We can't fight climate change if we don't have a true picture of emissions’

Gary Davis and Dr Richard Tipper, (Sep 7, 2017)

Gary Davis and Dr Richard Tipper of Ecometrica argue that outdated inventory-based systems have to be replaced with direct accounting methods if we are to meet the Paris Agreement

How France is stealing a march on sustainability

Terry Slavin, (Aug 17, 2017)

This month's magazine reports on the state of sustainable business in France, looking at how the country is taking leadership on issues from climate to human rights, and how the new Macron government looks set to lift that ambition even further

France briefing: Investing in the future of the planet

Stuart Buckman, (Aug 17, 2017)

The Livelihoods Carbon Fund is a private sector initiative led by Danone that uses carbon finance to restore ecosystems and improve the lot of smallholder farmers

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