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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

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DESCRIPTION: The United Nations Glasgow Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, concluded in November with 200 nations signing the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP), an agreement that could accelerate climate action and drive big carbon cuts. COP26 Reflects Increased Drive for Climate Action . SOURCE: AllianceBernstein. The problem?

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Initiative to create ‘world’s first’ transnational solar grid network formed at COP26

Renewable Energy World

At the United Nations COP26 climate summit that began this week, 80 countries endorsed plans for the world's first transnational solar power network, led by the UK and India. President Joe Biden expressed support for the initiative in his speech at the launch of COP26. "We Follow @EngelsAngle.

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

Here’s what’s happening behind closed doors and why people are concerned that COP26 might not meet its goals. What is COP26? COP26 stands for the 26th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC. The United Kingdom, partnering with Italy, is hosting COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. What happens at COP26?

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. One solution might be carbon pricing, and the imposition of such a measure was Bordini-Staden’s “biggest hope” for COP26.

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Burundi’s first solar farm increases country’s generating capacity by 10%

Renewable Energy World

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. Courtesy: Camco Clean Energy). billion in 2019.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. Not in this text,” said COP26 chair Alok Sharma. Clear follow-through on the phasedown of coal?

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Global $100 Billion Climate Finance Goal Expected to be Met in 2023: Report

ESG Today

The initial goal to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 to support climate action in developing countries was announced in 2009, and reaffirmed in 2015’s Paris Agreement, with an agreement to extend the goal through 2025. By 2020, however, annual climate finance mobilization had only reached $83 billion, according to OECD estimates.