Corporate Knights

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2021, the value of carbon credits traded on the voluntary market exceeded US$1 billion , more than double the value in 2020. At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Communities at risk.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

Leaders of leading industrial nations at the Japan-hosted G7 summit in Hiroshima made a series of announcements in support of their Paris Agreement commitments to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how the carbon finance options defined at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) can help cut greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction costs for power utilities and large energy consumers. Four Ways Development Agencies Can Advance Carbon Markets.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 19, 2023

But this time because there is such an urgency – we have the Paris Agreement, we have a lot of pressure from the markets, from NGOs – everybody feels that we must move forward.” I’ve been working with standardization, and normally two issues never meet: speed and standardization.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Global fossil fuel subsidies from 2021 alone reached $697 billion,” writes Madeleine Diouf Sarr, head of Senegal’s climate change division. An increasing number of countries now support the idea of averting loss and damage through mitigation, and minimizing losses through climate change adaptation. of global emissions in 2019.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) established an accounting mechanism known as the “corresponding adjustment” to ensure that only one country counts each emission reduction.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

The Sector Standard for Coal enables comprehensive and comparable disclosure on: How companies respond to climate change mitigation demands , as reflected in the Paris Agreement, including plans to transition away from coal mining. The first completed Sector Standard – for oil and gas – published in October 2021.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change. Back then, I wouldn’t have believed that we would come so far in international collaboration on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Given the very stark message issued by the IPCC, it is crucial that the British Government shows leadership in fully integrating AD and biogas into its Paris Agreement and Net Zero targets”, she continues. There is no Net Zero without biogas.”, ”, Charlotte Morton concludes.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. Read more from Rodrigo about how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition: Using Carbon Markets to Fuel the Clean Energy Transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

Entitled “ the Methane Imperative ”, the event will build upon the launch of the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 to highlight how biogas could deliver up to 50% of the targets set up in the pledge, which has now been signed by over 100 countries. He will be followed by H.E.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. An ideological shift demanded that addressing the impact of climate change be a holistic global effort across both the public and private sectors as codified by Article 6 of the agreement.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Transport NDC Tracker keeps tabs on whether the “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), as the decarbonisation plans that countries submit under the Paris Agreement are known, mention transport; include transport decarbonisation measures; set transport CO2-reduction targets.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Garraway notes that COP26 had a notable success on the climate mitigation front, with a strong focus on increasing ambition over the course of two years, despite the postponement caused by the pandemic. C target set by the Paris Agreement before 2040, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis report.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Investors increasingly unsure what is required to meet Paris Agreement targets. A lack of action by policymakers has caused investor confidence in achieving Paris Agreement goals to wane, according to data from international asset manager Robeco’s 2023 Climate Survey. trillion in AuM.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 6, 2021

C under the Paris Agreement is to be achieved. There is no excuse in 2021 anymore for no good environmental practices in the hydropower sector,” said Eddie Rich, chief executive officer of the International Hydropower Association (IHA).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

November’s COP26 conference saw several countries make national commitments to fight climate change: More than 130 countries pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and the destruction of land by 2030, and more than 100 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge to collectively cut emissions by 30 percent before this decade comes to a close.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. per cent in 2020.

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Richard Matthews

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The World Climate Summit – Investment Cop will be held on November 7-8, 2021, in Glasgow, UK. This event takes place after more than a decade of public-private partnerships this is the premier public side event onThe Road to COP26 2021. is recognized as one of the most important official side events of COP26.

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Tobias Webb

MAY 6, 2021

The panel demonstrate progress, debate some difficult questions and highlight what is possible during 2021, a vitally important year, of course, for the climate. The session concluded with each panellist giving their hopes for 2021 and beyond. Thanks to Neste for their financial support in making this happen. .

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

C aspiration of the Paris Agreement. Phase 1 includes reports of each country team (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Thailand), as well as a regional report, which are all currently available online after being published alongside COP26 in November of 2021.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

In this article, I’ll do a quick summary of 2020 and then present four sustainable business trends that could finally explode in 2021. Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. 2020 Sustainability Summary.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 6, 2022

At COP26, philanthropists teamed up with the Danish and Costa Rican governments to launch the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance , or BOGA. Tracking such donations is notoriously tricky, but we know for example that major donors allocated at least $123 million to exploring and developing carbon capture and storage in 2021 alone.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Following the eleventh-hour agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement at COP26 , it is hoped that COP27 will provide further momentum toward establishing a coherent and credible framework for carbon trading. . “A The final CCPs and assessment frameworks will be published by the end of this year. . “So

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It estimated the global market was worth just under US$1 billion at the end of 2021, having grown 190% during the year. Refinitiv’s carbon market review of 2021 noted that several airlines had used the VCM in the absence of offsetting under the industry’s CORSIA scheme, noting “there will be no offsetting under CORSIA anytime soon”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This figure, however, is dwarfed by compliance carbon markets, which offer legally binding emissions reduction targets set by regional, national and international agreements, typically informed by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The post VCMs Require Rethink, Scale and Standards, Experts Say appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Experts explore the parallels between the COVID-19 and climate crises and how lessons from the pandemic can be applied to the climate emergency November 1, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed society’s true abilities and vulnerabilities when it comes to confronting a global crisis.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) has announced it will stop investing in companies in the fossil fuel sector that do not commit to the Paris Agreement and ambitions outlined at COP26. Pledge to divest over next two years follows mounting pressure from protesters. Setting a 1.5°C The Dutch pension fund, with €277.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

Natasha Landell-Mills, Head of Stewardship at Sarasin & Partners, outlines five actions investors can take to build on the ambitions and commitments outlined in 2021. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. In 2021, Sarasin worked with a group of other investors representing over US$4.5

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. billion pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous peoples and local communities, underscoring their essential role in land stewardship. 24, 2021.

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Chris Hall

JULY 9, 2024

Annual capital expenditure on oil and gas exploration has increased by more than 30% since 2021. “7,245 institutional investors are locking us into a high-carbon future through their investments in an expanding oil and gas industry,” Ganswindt argued.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The recent Global Stocktake Synthesis Report makes it clear that we are dangerously off track to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, emphasizing that ‘’much more action, on all fronts and by all actors, is needed now’. At COP26 in Glasgow, over 100 countries pledged to end deforestation by 2030.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2022

Under the partnership, first announced in Q4 2021, CPP Investments has launched the Accelerate Nature project which is rooted in Peru’s 600,000-hectare Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR). Launched in July 2021, the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity ( VCMI ) initiative is also working to ensure VCMs are transparent and robust.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

This follows a report published by Ceres in May 2021, which highlighted the role carbon credits from NCS can play in corporate climate strategies. At COP26, nearly 200 countries finalised Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Guidance is expected this year. However, this is likely to change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Potential for Paris-aligned gains to replace Russia-inflicted short-term pain at COP27. If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C For me, this was the main outcome from COP26 because it shifted the onus from the politicians and regulators towards the real economy.”. Beast from the east.

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