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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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CDP to Integrate IFRS’ Climate Disclosure Standard

ESG Today

Paul Dickinson, Founder Chair at CDP, said: “As the only global environmental disclosure platform, with over 18,700 companies worth half of global market capitalisation disclosing in 2022, CDP is uniquely positioned to scale the early adoption of the ISSB’s climate Standard across the global economy.

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Tetra Pak 2022 Sustainability Report: Message From the CEO

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As the world continued to experience the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including global supply chain disruptions, resource shortages, employment challenges and inflation – these have not been easy times. In 2021, 50 billion cartons, equivalent to 1.2

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Lessons of giants will bring us to a greener future

Corporate Knights

In the last week of 2021, we lost three giants of humankind. Johan Rockström, who leads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has proposed a solution for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions, a “carbon law” that would cut emissions in half every decade (and would apply to cities, nations and industrial sectors).

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TED Talk: 3 Rules for a Zero Carbon World

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Here is one of our favorites: Stop feeling overwhelmed by the global effort to reduce CO2 emissions, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for the UN’s climate change conference COP26. The UN’s COP26 has developed toolkits for every sector of the global economy and published a roadmap of shared pathways.

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UN climate conference more productive than you think

Sense and Sustainability

Between the news media and the protests, it would have been easy to get the impression that this year’s United Nations climate summit, known as COP26, was all talk and no action. Highlights from the climate summit There was plenty of good news worth highlighting: Global methane pledge: The U.S. 24, 2021. Let’s keep going.

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Setting science-based targets to combat climate change

We Mean Business Coalition

COP26 focused the attention of governments and businesses on a key targe t: limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C by halving global emissions by 2030. As of November 2021, more than 1,000 companies spanning 53 sectors in 60 countries have set 1.5 A version of this article first appeared on Harvard Business Review.