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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

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 last year.

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SBTi Appoints Maria Outters as First Chief Impact Officer

ESG Today

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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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

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. Human activity is overloading the natural carbon cycle.

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Accelerating Climate Action

3BL Media

Scott Tew, VP Sustainability: With the call to triple renewables deployment and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels, Dubai may be the most significant COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Is the agreement perfect? Of course not. Critics are pointing to “cavernous loopholes.” Absolutely.

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Aligning Finance with Climate Action

Chris Hall

c) of the Paris Agreement, seems sensible – why would we collectively pursue investments that harm people and the planet? The Paris Agreement stimulated a reckoning to align public and private finance with net zero and climate resilience. Most investments are out of sync with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Mon, 12/14/2020 - 00:05. But that is not the only pivotal milestone we should commemorate this month. So, the TCFD was born.

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‘First nail in the coffin’ for fossil fuels at COP28

Corporate Knights

“A call to transition energy systems away from fossil fuels—the first time oil and gas had been included in a COP agreement—won over those demanding strong action; but oil producers and developing countries were reassured by assertions that countries are free to follow their own paths to net zero,” Bloomberg News reports.

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