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Tokyo-headquartered Azbil Corporation, which works with its customers to deploy its measurement and control technology to cut energy usage, is a strong believer that emissions reduction targets need to be validated.
Carbon & Climate
South Korea government sued over renewables target backslide
A group of citizens and renewable energy firms are suing the Korean government for weakening the East Asian country's domestic climate commitment.
Policy & Finance
Standard Chartered to set absolute reduction targets for oil and gas lending in coming AGM: CSO
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EXCLUSIVE: This revision – which comes as banks face increasing scrutiny over their fossil fuel decarbonisation targets – will better reflect the UK lender's progress in reducing financed emissions, as the long-used revenue-based carbon intensity model “can be very misleading,” StanChart's chief sustainability officer Marisa Drew told Eco-Business.
Policy & Finance
Business leaders do not trust competitors' ESG data: study
A global study finds that most executives think their competitors' sustainability data lacks credibility. About 80% of the respondents believe their rivals are more focused on image than achieving actual sustainability outcomes.
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