Sweden’s political parties have unanimously backed the world’s first consumption-based emissions target, with the country aiming to hit net zero by 2045.

A “fair number” of the largest U.S-listed companies should be caught by a proposed requirement to disclose third-parties’ greenhouse gas emissions, the chair of the U.S. securities regulator told Reuters Events Responsible Business forum in an interview.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with climate science, is publishing a Net-Zero Foundations for Financial Institutions paper. The Foundations paper paves the way for the SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard for Financial Institutions, which is due to be launched in early 2023 to bring the clarity and scientific basis the sector needs to align with net-zero by 2050.

The sudden speed of the shift to clean power is forcing Australia, a global champion of coal and gas, to confront one of the energy industry’s biggest challenges — how to transition millions of fossil fuel workers to new roles in wind and solar. Clean energy could create more than 38 million jobs worldwide by the end of the decade.

Sir Ronald Cohen joins Eric Rice from BlackRock Fundamental Equities to discuss how to address the world’s problems through impact investing. Impact investing is a rapidly growing segment within sustainable investing. It aims to channel money toward the companies that have a positive impact on the world in which they operate – and to deliver outperformance for investors in the process.

Technology giant Intel has pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040, through renewable energy procurement, green chemical trials and a $300m energy savings investment.