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Challenges for Corporate Managers in the Changing ESG Reporting & Disclosure Environment

3BL Media

If we were writing this introduction to Highlights two decades ago – say, in summer 2002 – the topic would be the “Sarbanes-Oxley” comprehensive package of laws that the U.S. The formal title of the package was Public Company Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 , with eleven separate “titles” passed.)

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

An example of his pioneering innovative transdisciplinary approach to these issues can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. Sachs’ participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been vital.

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Policy Paramount in Driving DACCS Development

Chris Hall

The IPR DACCS 2050 forecast is roughly consistent with the growth trajectory of solar power between 2002 and 2022 from 2030 onwards. There is currently no carbon pricing regime that includes DACCS. However, regions such as the EU and China have carbon markets which could be adapted to include DACCS.

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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

Envirotec Magazine

To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters – so says a new report from the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Currently, between 1 and 1.5%

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Litigation Surge Reflects Evolving Climate Duties

Chris Hall

The report cites a global total of 2002 cases, brought by May 2021, according to the Climate Change Laws of the World (CCLW) database, maintained by the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, supplemented by the United States Climate Litigation Database.

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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Taking Action on Climate

3BL Media

Replacing aluminium foil with a fibre-based layer Marking a breakthrough in our journey towards a fully renewable aseptic carton package, in 2002 we tested a fibre-based barrier to substitute the aluminium foil layer in aseptic carton packages, a first within food carton packages distributed under ambient conditions. Nature Food 2.3.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

These trends, the researchers say, are almost entirely due to Australia’s increasingly severe weather and are consistent with “predicted human-induced climate change”.