Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. CEO Richard Edelman argued that oil companies need PR support through the energy transition and added that, since 2015, Edelman has refused to work with outright climate deniers. They claim, ‘We’re good corporate actors.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Carbon emissions have, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as the predominant issue in corporate sustainability discourse and strategy. SOURCE: EcoVadis. One recent study found that net zero commitments now cover at least 68% of the global economy.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

India’s first NDC was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, with goals to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources, and create additional carbon sink of 2.5

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? We have just closed the doors behind COP26, yet another gathering of the big players of the world. In light of the newly launched 1.5°C

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

bank has become the latest financial firm to join the Global Carbon Accounting Partnership (PCAF), a growing coalition which first began in the Netherlands in 2015 and now boasts 66 formal members from around the world representing more than $5.3 Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The conference will likely focus particular attention on the implementation of goals from last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact. COP26 saw a significant step-up in climate finance pledges, and said that it anticipates the $100 billion goal will be met next year.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The TCFD was established by the FSB in 2015, with the goal of developing consistent disclosure standards for companies, in order to enable investors and other stakeholders to assess the companies’ climate-related financial risk.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

million people since 2015. Climate – Consistent with the world’s enhanced climate action commitments coming out of COP26, the company made progress against ambitious targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for reducing our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and our Scope 3 emissions by 20% – all by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 1, 2021

However, should commodity prices remain high through the end of next year, the cost of wind investments would go back up to levels last seen in 2015 and three years of cost reductions for solar PV would be erased. India is set to come top in terms of the rate of growth, doubling new installations compared with 2015-2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Transport NDC Tracker aims to highlight the critical importance of transport for climate policy by making transparent countries’ transport decarbonisation ambitions in the run-up to the UN climate negotiations at COP26 in November in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Climate change cannot be stopped without decarbonising transport.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Funding gap In 2015, the UN defined the SDGs as a “blueprint for peace and prosperity”, setting a 2030 deadline to achieve the 17 goals. The funding gap required to achieve these goals, however, amounts to US$3.9 Further, the fund extends beyond climate, investing in financial inclusion and agriculture, she added.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And a UK-led joint statement commits 25 countries “to ending international public support for the unabated fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022 and instead prioritising support for the clean energy transition,” said an announcement on the COP26 website. Signatories include Italy, Canada, the United States and Denmark.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As concerning, as of October 2022, only 24 countries updated their national commitment according to the UNCC, to reduce their GHGs, despite all countries agreeing to update their commitments one year earlier at COP26. In 2015 after COP21, when the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, we knew we needed to reduce GHG emissions rapidly.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets. Since COP26, some of those jurisdictions (the SEC, EFRAG and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation) have delivered pioneering legislative and standard-setting efforts.

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Martin Brown

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Much has changed since the idea for FutureRestorative was conceived back in 2015. We have new regenerative agendas, we are leaving a pandemic portal, we had Code Red for Humanity reports and we prepare for COP26. Working Towards a New Sustainability continues. . What have we achieved in 6 years?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

A week before COP26 in Glasgow, the initiative unveiled the world’s first science-based accreditation of companies’ net-zero targets with the launch of the Corporate Net Zero Standard. In July, it had already outlined a strategy to increase the minimum ambition for corporate targets to a temperature rise of “well below 2°C” to 1.5°C

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. In February 2021, CDL became the first real estate conglomerate in Southeast Asia to sign the WorldGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. In February 2021, CDL became the first real estate conglomerate in Southeast Asia to sign the WorldGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 124 countries have agreed to a net-zero emissions target, defined as a balance of emission sources and anthropogenic removals. The analysed strategies are mostly from the Global North and cover 58% of global 2019 greenhouse gas emissions and around 74% of global GDP.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Beyond a small group, clean energy investment levels are still at the same level as they were in 2015,” Gould said, speaking on a panel alongside Svenstrup. . Further, the rise in clean energy spending “isn’t evenly spread”, with the majority taking place in advanced economies as well as China and India. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

It marks the 20th All-Energy anniversary event; and SEC hosting the UN’S COP26. The first 14 events were staged at AECC Aberdeen, and it moved to Glasgow in 2015. Both are incubators for vital decarbonisation solutions and thus catalysts for opportunity”.

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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. COP26 in Glasgow, which many have called the finance and business COP, clearly demonstrated how this movement has become unstoppable.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. Dr Bo Bai, Executive Chairman of MetaVerse Green Exchange, says regulation should reflect the duality of carbon credits to drive green finance growth. Months on, the effects have been debatable at best.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

However, despite a positive trend for climate policy acceleration as detailed in the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) tracking reports since 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow, the lag between ambition and progress since the 2015 Paris Accord will be laid bare, no matter how it is dressed up.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

This time last year, we predicted – somewhat optimistically – that 2022 would be the ‘ year of delivery ’ on the commitments made six weeks earlier at COP26. But does our track record suggest you should take any notice?

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 30, 2021

Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow. One of the key points of debate at COP26 will revolve around the role of carbon removal by natural sinks in the calculation of ‘net’ carbon emissions. tCO₂ in 2015.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

At COP26, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to reduce the country’s emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030 and promised to raise the percentage of renewables in its energy mix to 50%, growing India’s non-fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 gigawatts (GW) by the end of the decade, achieving 175 GW by the end of 2022. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This figure, however, is dwarfed by compliance carbon markets, which offer legally binding emissions reduction targets set by regional, national and international agreements, typically informed by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The post VCMs Require Rethink, Scale and Standards, Experts Say appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The IMF estimated pre-tax subsidies (both consumer and producer) at US$305 billion in 2015, declining to US$295 billion in 2017, reflecting changes in international energy prices and subsidy reforms. trillion in 2015 and at US$5.2 Post-tax energy subsidies were estimated at US$4.7 trillion in 2017. degrees Celsius pathways.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 To date, investors have mostly focused on climate mitigation through reduced emissions, but the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) took a step toward adaptation. But it isn’t enough.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Under her stewardship, the unfinished global climate rulebook drawn up in Paris in 2015 was completed last year at COP26 in Glasgow, including agreements on carbon markets and other contentious issues. Stiell takes over from Patricia Espinoza, who served as UNFCCC Executive Secretary for two three-year terms.

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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. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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