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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 degrees C cap on average warming that governments pledged to aim for when they signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to avoid dangerous climate change. In the Arctic, temperatures are rising at twice the global rate. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In December 2015, as a response to increasingly frequent environmental disasters that disrupted ecosystems and human health — plus caused unforeseen business losses and jeopardized assets and infrastructure — the Financial Stability Board launched the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). So, the TCFD was born.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The 2021 Progress Report, ‘ Scaling Urgent Corporate Climate Action Worldwide ’, found that companies committed to cut emissions in line with climate science now represent US$38 trillion of the global economy, more than one-third of global market capitalisation (up from 20% in 2020). Grounds for optimism.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 17, 2022

percent of the global economy is circular. A great example is the Ericsson Radio System from 2015, with already included features to enable upgrading to 5G added to avoid early replacements. SOURCE: Ericsson. DESCRIPTION: Csaba Balogh , Strategic Product Manager. Natasha Djordjevic , Strategic Product Manager. Currently, only 8.6

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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

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Decarbonizing the global economy means lessening our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing dramatically our use of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower.

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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. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 13, 2022

The initiative has grown exponentially since the first pioneers set targets back in 2015. According to the report , 2,253 companies with a combined market cap of one third of the global economy – a total of $38trn – are now working with the SBTi. . G7 – and indeed all governments – should take note.

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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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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: When the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) was launched in 2015, the goal was to recruit 100 companies. By Juergen Mueller | Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. SOURCE: SAP.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 in just two years from 92.8 billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available.

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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 21, 2023

Nowhere is this paradox more present than in our global economy through transnational supply chains.” In recent years, governments have introduced legislation to hold business and accountable for exploitation that occurs in global supply chains such as the EU, USA, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Japan.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

i(c)), but action to fully implement this objective has been mostly deferred since 2015 when it was penned. More money flows to fossil fuel-related investments than to mitigation and adaptation in over 50 global economies , which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change labels a “persistent misallocation”.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 3, 2021

In addition, those wishing to order coffee from Roar Gill can opt for afforestation projects and deliveries to be carbon offset in key coffee growing nations. How to Avoid Greenwashing?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Taskforce of Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) requirements These are international standards which are intended to embed climate-related financial reporting into mainstream corporate reporting cycles across the wider global economy. This could lead to faster innovation and a more competitive market.

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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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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. More than 70 countries , including the biggest polluters — have set a net-zero target, covering about 76% of global emissions.

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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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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

The early success of South Korea and other Asian countries might also be explained, at least partly, by their recent experience with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2015. This article was initially published on Apolitical.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought our global economy to a standstill, with fears of the worst recession since 1929. Economies around the world are reeling from the cascading shocks wrought upon them since the beginning of March. (This post was published earlier this year on Medium.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 27, 2020

He contrasted Korea's experience responding to MERS in 2015, and the lessons learned to mount a stronger response to COVID-19. Jae-Seok Kim , Member of the COVID-19 Committee of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine and Professor at the Hallym University College of Medicine, shared South Korea's perspective ( slides ).

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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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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

Restoring landscapes and marine ecosystems is urgent not only because they are home to countless plant and animals, but because the services they provide are worth an estimated US$125 trillion every year to the global economy. The economy suffered a loss of US$16 billion. billion people.

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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. The survey can be completed here.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

COP26 concluded on 13 November amidst widespread disappointment from environmental commentators about a lack of significant progress on the promises made in Paris in 2015 – even disbelief at a failure to commit to fulfilling many of those past promises.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Anti-Financial Crime Market abuse, fraud, and money laundering is an enormous problem across the globe that costs trillions of dollars and contributes to systemic risks to the global economy. Significantly, ESG reporting is now being incorporated into formal accounting standards.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Scientists at Birmingham used machine learning to strip out weather impacts and seasonal trends before analysing the data – site-specific hourly concentrations of key pollutants from December 2015 to May 2020. Air pollution is the single largest environmental risk to human health globally, contributing to 6.7

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 1, 2015

And with exponential advances in technology being reached with each passing year, the pace at which the global economy is changing has increased proportionally. Over the past several years, the overall pool of law school applicants has dropped significantly; between 2014 and 2015, the applicant pool shrank by a whopping 8.5%.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human rights violations. Homes demolished as a mine expands into a city In the heart of the city of Kolwezi long-established communities have been destroyed since a vast open-pit copper and cobalt mine was reopened in 2015. But climate justice demands a just transition.

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