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Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26

3BL Media

SUMMARY: The need for climate finance – the local, national, or transnational financing that enables climate change mitigation and adaptation – was much debated at COP26. An estimated $100 billion per year in investment is required for financing climate related issues, a target that developed countries were aiming to achieve by 2020.

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Companies Must Show Accountability for Biodiversity Impacts

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As 22 May marked the International Day of Biological Diversity , we are less than eight years away from the 2030 deadline to reverse biodiversity loss, which was internationally reaffirmed at November’s COP26 climate conference. Of 20 internationally-set biodiversity targets, only six were partially met by the 2020 deadline.

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. Other notable accolades include maintaining double ‘A’s in the 2021 CDP Global A List for corporate climate action and water security.

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CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 Zeroes in on Bolder Decarbonisation Targets

3BL Media

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. Other notable accolades include maintaining double ‘A’s in the 2021 CDP Global A List for corporate climate action and water security.

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

The Glasgow Climate Pact , agreed at COP26, stressed ‘the urgency of enhancing ambition and action in relation to mitigation, adaptation and finance in this critical decade’. 62% of total renewable power generation added in 2020 had lower costs than the cheapest new fossil fuel option. . Nicolette Bartlett, Chief Impact Officer, CDP.

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Finance Sector Net Zero Plans Must Respect Planetary Limits – SBTi

Chris Hall

SBTi, a partnership between the CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), notably tightened its emissions reduction frameworks last year, having previously accredited strategies aligned to a 2°C rise in global temperatures. Addressing greenwashing.

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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

2020 has been a year for pausing and thinking about our existence on this planet. In this article, I’ll do a quick summary of 2020 and then present four sustainable business trends that could finally explode in 2021. 2020 Sustainability Summary. Besides, the business case for sustainability has only gotten stronger.