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If done well, financial regulations play a crucial role in cutting carbon emissions

Corporate Knights

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted last week, we are in the midst of a climate emergency. This cannot continue if we are realistically going to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 1.5 ° C. All regulators must be de facto climate regulators.

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The sooner we start the energy transition, the faster Canada’s economy will grow

Corporate Knights

In its latest report released February 28, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its most dire warning yet about the consequences of inaction on billions of people around the world. Henry Stoch is the national leader of Deloitte’s sustainability and climate change practice in Canada. Lives were lost.

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Biden Announces Over $6 Billion in New Climate Investments

ESG Today

President Biden announced more than $6 billion in investments aimed at strengthening climate resilience in the U.S., targeting areas including the electric grid infrastructure, reducing flood risk, advancing drought resistance, and advancing community-level clean energy deployment and climate justice efforts.

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Four Ways Development Agencies Can Advance Carbon Markets

3BL Media

This is the third in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. The new market-based instruments approved by Article 6 encourage international carbon trading, long seen as the likeliest way to incentivize global climate action.

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Biden Announces $2.9 Billion in Climate Resilience Investments

ESG Today

billion in investments aimed at helping protect coastal communities and electrical grid infrastructure from the impact of climate change, in a presentation Monday in Palo Alto, California. Addressing climate change has been a significant focus for the Biden Administration, starting with the return of the U.S.

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Climate Talks: Dennis Onono on the Potential Offered by Innovative Sustainable Technology Projects in Africa

3BL Media

There has been a shift recently: more and more countries are working on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, specifically on making sure that they have the necessary plans, capabilities, and instruments in place to attract the potential investments that market-based mechanisms under Article 6 can provide.

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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

Envirotec Magazine

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there.