Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

COP26 is to be held at the SEC, Glasgow, in November 2021. The UK Government, as hosts of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), has selected engineering, design and consultancy firm Arup to help it achieve its ambition of delivering a sustainable summit.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Learn how Agents of Impact are developing new ways to finance small. The post The Brief: Catalytic capital at COP26, naturally occurring affordable housing, fintech in Ghana, regeneration in Australia, COVID recovery in Kenya appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! ??

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Coal mines will help Australia meet a COP26 methane pledge but developing countries are gearing up to make loss and damage the cause de jour of COP27. The post Australia praised for methane reductions, but should be prepared for uncomfortable COP appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Russ George

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

In Scotland 25,000 COP26 people are speaking ‘Bureaucratise’ about climate change. Watch the COP26 Special Meeting on Ocean Pasture Restoration. Click to play COP26 OPR Session Video. The post COP26 Glasgow Ocean Pasture Restoration To The Rescue appeared first on Russ George. Bringing Back The Fish.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

C, including supporting the development of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) upcoming sustainability and climate-related corporate reporting standards, calling for an end of construction of new unabated coal-fired power plants, and supporting initiatives to ramp climate transition finance to developing countries.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). While COP25 in Madrid had seen the launch of many such schemes by big polluters like Shell, Total and BP, with COP26 we could now see these schemes taking a central place in the draft agreement. Carbon capture.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Our planet faces an unprecedented slate of climate risks, and world leaders are gathering at COP26 in Glasgow next month with a mandate to stave off disaster. After 18 months of the pandemic, developing countries’ resources are stretched thin. This model should be quickly applied to all kinds of support for developing countries.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Looking at how international development agencies can advance carbon markets. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how international development agencies can advance carbon markets. SOURCE: Tetra Tech. Key Issue 1—Domestic Action vs. International Transfers.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

A group of investors representing over $1 trillion in assets under management has published a letter to the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), urging it to prioritize the development of global reporting standards for companies to disclose on human capital and human rights.

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ESG Today

APRIL 25, 2024

Faber added: “Beyond climate, we are committed to building out the global baseline of sustainability-related financial disclosure to meet the needs of investors.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2022

In order to drive accountability for businesses, WBCSD launched the Business Manifesto for Climate Recovery at COP26 in Glasgow, calling for the development of a new Corporate Determined Contributions (CDCs) framework.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It has been launched at COP27, where a key theme is making good on the commitments made at COP26 and demonstrating action. Nigel Topping, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the UK, COP26 will introduce the Playbook as part of the Marrakech Partnership’s Industry Action Event on November 11TH, 2022 at 10:00 EET. link] #netzero.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Many of the major announcements unveiled by governments and the private sector so far at COP26 demonstrate that progress is underway. There is potential for this to be ironed out at COP26. . The development of the? COP26 must deliver robust rules on the Global Stocktake in 2023. . COP26 LIVE BLOG: ALL IN FOR 1.5ºC.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too. C future within reach.".

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Global commodities trading company Trafigura announced today a new commitment to purchase at least 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits by the end of 2030, joining an initiative aimed at supporting the development of the CO2 removal market and solutions.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Days before the United Nations COP26 climate summit is expected to, among other things, pressure world leaders to boost clean energy financing for developing countries , a multinational effort has brought the first-ever solar farm online in Burundi. Follow @EngelsAngle. billion in 2019. billion in 2019.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Following on from last November’s COP26 in Glasgow, Climate Innovation Forum (CIF) was seeking continued climate innovation collaboration this year, uniting senior public and private sector decision makers to accelerate the delivery of net zero commitments. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

International Trade Secretary and UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, said: “With over £200 million ($269 million) worth of backing, we are helping to bring solar energy to two million Turkish households.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The COP27 text reiterated the COP26 decision but failed to broaden it to encompass oil and gas, despite a proposal by India to that end (a move that would have helped take the emphasis off coal, of which it is a major consumer). COP decisions are not binding and the language on fossil fuels at COP26 was watered down during negotiations.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In response, the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) is taking an important step to foster a better understanding of these threats and their impacts to promote participation in developing solutions. The SPA is convened under the auspices of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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ESG Today

APRIL 9, 2024

The SSBJ was formed in 2022 under Japan’s Financial Accounting Standards Foundation (FASF) in order to develop sustainability reporting standards, in line with a legal framework to be developed by the FSA, and to contribute to international sustainability reporting standards, following the launch of the ISSB.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Efforts to secure global commitments to phase out fossil fuels in prior UN climate conferences have failed, with last year’s COP27 agreement only calling for an “increase in low-emission” energy and renewables, and COP26 including a pledge to “phase down” unabated coal use and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The climate commitments finalised at COP26 are too little and too late to protect vulnerable communities already living with the impacts of the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ILI Group recently committed to the San Jose Declaration that was agreed by the World Hydro Congress in 2021 and presented at COP26. Intelligent Land Investments Group is a development company focused on energy storage in Great Britain, and especially Scotland.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

SDSN Youth is delighted to announce the launch of the Climate Change Guidebook: Decade of Action , inspired by the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). COP26 highlighted the importance of finding feasible solutions and called on the human community to take individual steps to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

Consumers in developed countries woke up to what was being degraded, ecologically and culturally, by the advent of highly-processed food. Since the mid-20th century, they’ve been doing this to a T, powered by synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, GMOs and other food and farming technologies.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The post $100 billion is just a down payment on financing the climate transition in developing nations appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21 – For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost, as the old proverb goes. For want of $100 billion, a.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The International Energy Agency called for "unmistakable" action by world leaders to reduce emissions ahead of the COP26 Climate Change Conference , warning that the global transition to renewable energy isn't happening quickly enough to meet net-zero goals. Follow @EngelsAngle. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Andreas Rache

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference , has just ended. By Steen Vallentin. ? 7 min read ?. It was supposed to be ‘the next big and significant one’: the great follow-up to COP21 five years ago, the outcome of which was the Paris Climate Agreement, the first binding international treaty on climate change.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Launched last year at the COP26 climate conference, the ISSB is currently in the process of developing its first 2 proposed standards for company sustainability and climate related disclosures around the end of this year, and to issue the final standards as early as possible in 2023.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Launch of the Fossil Fueled Five Report at Panda Hub at COP26A new report investigates the role of 5 western developed countries, their current climate plans and their current fossil fuel expansion plans.The Fossil Fueled Five report comes at a critical time as there is gowing discussion at UN Climate conferences and generally in the community that (..)

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The formation of the TPT was announced last year by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and now UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, at COP26 , and officially launched in April 2022. The FCA has been actively involved in the development and drafting of these initial outputs.”.

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ESG Today

MAY 1, 2024

According to an IFRS statement announcing the new tool, the new Taxonomy “will enable investors to search, extract and compare sustainability-related financial disclosures as ISSB establishes its global baseline of Standards.”

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the run-up to the G20 Summit in Rome, and ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the UN Development Programme and the University of Oxford are publishing the… Read more → The actions that G20 governments take to tackle the climate crisis will be critical to the future of the planet.

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3BL Media

MARCH 24, 2022

Commenting on the agreement, Erkki Liikanen, Chair of the IFRS Foundation Trustees, said: “At COP26 we heard strong support for consolidation in the sustainability reporting landscape. Many jurisdictions look to the GRI Standards when developing their own multi-stakeholder sustainability reporting requirements.

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