Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as shown in the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024. In 2020, the direct cost of waste management to the global economy was an estimated US$252 billion. billion tonnes.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The EU Taxonomy was among the first such tools, with its governing Regulation entering into force on 12 July 2020. The roadmap has the support of the International Financial Corporation, the Sustainable Banking and Financial Network, the International Platform for Sustainable Finance, the United Nations Development Programme and UNEP FI.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

There are several financing questions to answer too – areas where developing nations in particular are keen for ‘stories about money’ to transform into cash in the bank. The US$100 billion of annual climate-focused financing for developing countries from 2020 onward – a 2009 promise that remains intangible – is another.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

planets to provide the resources needed to produce goods and absorb waste (Global Footprint Network 2020). Negotiations reached their peak with different priorities of the developing and developed countries addressing ambitious targets to take climate action and limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees celsius.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Stronger wording might have been possible, but this was a big step in the right direction,” said Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). That’s something that the markets and the investors need to navigate,” says UNEP FI’s Fischer. C in realistic reach.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

A 2020 World Bank report noted the “mineral intensity” of the transition to clean energy, pointing out the reliance of several renewable energy sources on technologies requiring higher levels of mineral inputs.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

metres compared to 2020 levels, the number of people affected will increase by 20%. trillion by doing so, according to a World Bank report. Extreme climate-related events can reduce a property’s value by between 5-20%, according to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). metres respectively.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Tackling the tailback With governments’ 2035 phase-out deadline edging ever closer, EV transition efforts may stall in the face of rapidly growing global demand.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Former World Bank Global Director for Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Karin Kemper will advise the board on natural ecosystems. . Banks, asset managers and insurers all have a lot more to do to align their financing and scale up investments that protect and restore biodiversity.” .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

Agora’s recommendations, which include installation of new gas boilers and scaling up of heat pump installation, would reduce EU buildings’ existing fossil gas use by 480 terawatts an hour (TWh) by 2027 compared to 2020 levels of 1,400TWh. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. This group, representing over US$4 trillion in market capitalisation, includes some of the world’s largest asset owners and managers, banks and insurers.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

Representatives from international organizations and multilateral development banks shared their views on how the concept of multidimensional vulnerability and associated measurement tools can help support better resource allocation and help strengthen resilience and emergency response in the context of SIDS.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

, hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050. Modeled off of our global meeting during the 2020 HLPF, the Networks program launched the regional University Presidents Meetings in December.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A 2020 World Bank report estimated the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will need to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 – the equivalent of nearly three billion tonnes – to fulfil sufficient upscaling of clean energy technologies and energy storage solutions. in 2020, and now 7.2% in 2018, to 8.6%

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

In March 2021, the Align project was also launched, led by the United Nation’s Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and funded by the European Commission.

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