Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Taken together with a call to triple renewables deployment, [take] action on methane emissions, and get a loss and damage fund going, Dubai may well be the most significant COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015.”Initial Rich countries with historical responsibilities for the climate crisis, like the UK, needed to do much more.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A cross-cutting theme of the Congress was the need to align road infrastructure management and development with efforts to address several complex and intersecting global development challenges. The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Founded in 2015, SBTi was formed as a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Founded in 2015, SBTi was formed as a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: When the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) was launched in 2015, the goal was to recruit 100 companies. Now, almost 2,900 are on track to reach the targets set by SBTi for how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

Julie Segal, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment, outlines the c hallenges and opportunities of the Paris Agreement’s Article 2.1(c). Aligning investments with climate change mitigation and adaptation goals, as required under Article 2.1(c)

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

A total of 2,253 companies across 70 countries and 15 industries have approved emissions reductions targets or commitments with the organisation, with 80% of targets approved by SBTi in 2021 aligned with limiting climate change to 1.5°C. Since its foundation in 2015, the majority of SBTi companies with 1.5°C

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

These are just a few of the nightmare scenarios evoked by UN Secretary General António Guterres following the publication in April of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate science. We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

To help achieve this, it has introduced mandatory climate-related disclosure requirements for large UK companies. The UK’s commitment to achieving net zero in general is enshrined in the Climate Change Act of 2008 (as amended). These requirements are expected to be extended to medium-sized and small companies by 2025.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2015, when a group of us met to ensure the voice of forward-looking business was heard at the crucial COP21 Paris Climate negotiations, this observation felt painfully familiar. Such initiatives were virtually inconceivable in 2015, and today they are primed for rapid expansion.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nature underpins societal wellbeing by providing basic life support services and material goods such as soil, air, water, food, fuel, and fibre 1 , so the impacts of nature loss are wide-reaching and threaten the foundations of our global economies, livelihoods, and food systems 2,3. Díaz, & H. IPBES secretariat. 6 Ceballos, G.,

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Revi’s meeting with Mayor Kadir Topbaş was significant, in particular, for the global campaign on an Urban SDG. Mayor Topbaş is a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and is the President of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Natural gas will remain an important fuel source to meet total energy demand for the time being, decreasing by only 13% in 2030 (from 2015 levels), until hydrogen, e-gas and biogas are ramped up,” the Allianz report noted. “As But the EU isn’t turning its back on gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). She added: “This is a diplomatic failure of the last few decades during which geopolitical manoeuvring and self-interest has shamelessly dominated the climate crisis.”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

These threats — such as commodity agriculture, climate change and overfishing — are specific to every land and seascape. But all forms of ecosystem degradation have one thing in common: When people hurt ecosystems, they also hurt economies, biodiversity and the climate. The economy suffered a loss of US$16 billion.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 27, 2015

On July 13-16, 2015, member states convened in Addis Ababa for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. The Action Agenda provides a strong foundation for aligning financing flows and policies with the post-2015 agenda, and includes concrete commitments. ▶ Remarks by Treasury Secretary Jacob J.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pricing and intermediating risk is a core function for insurance companies, but this has become far more challenging given the unprecedented risks associated with climate change. At the same time, regulators are requiring insurers to quantify and disclose them.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The science is clear that the health of the planet is declining at rates never seen in human history and that it is putting our global economy at risk, as well as undermining human health and well-being, societal resilience, and progress towards the SDGs.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

Globalization has broadly been a catalyst for global growth For a number of LMICs, the expansion of international trade in the second half of the 20th century was an integral part of their economic transformation. As a percentage of GDP, trade grew from roughly one quarter of the world economy in 1960 to over one half by 2015.

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

This interview with Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria, from the research team of the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) explains how a global movement for environmental justice has risen. They also make the connection with the global economy and the need for degrowth.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Preparing for the storm: The role of UK business and government in improving UK resilience to climate change in the UK’ explores how leading UK businesses are already increasing community resilience through climate adaptation strategies and action. billion climate finance already promised by Biden each year, by 2024.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.

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