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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition.

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From Ambition to Delivery

Chris Hall

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow. A carbon price is key,” he said. Change is gonna come.

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Asset Owners Ready to Back Clean Energy Transition in Emerging Markets

Chris Hall

Recent research published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) noted that global energy investment is set to increase by 8% in 2022 to reach US$2.4 At the Net Zero Summit co-hosted by the IEA and COP26 last year, governments were urged to standardise and align their global net zero targets to incentivise investors to back clean energy.

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ISSB’s First Sustainability Reporting Standards Target Granularity

Chris Hall

Feedback requested for general and climate-focused disclosure drafts, which will be finalised by end of 2022. . The IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainable Standards Board (ISSB) has published its first proposals for investor-focused sustainability reporting standards, marking a key step in fulfilling its formal mandate.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26. At COP26 in Glasgow, Australia refused to commit to phasing out coal. While the initial bid in February 2022 was knocked back as too low, Cannon-Brookes said negotiations were ongoing. What are Australia’s stated net zero goals?

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Bloomberg Publishes 2021 Impact Report

3BL Media

Report highlights Bloomberg’s work to mobilize the markets to fight climate change and its company-wide efforts to boost climate action in the lead up to COP26 Glasgow. To build momentum for COP26 in Glasgow, Bloomberg L.P. To build momentum for COP26 in Glasgow, Bloomberg L.P. SOURCE: Bloomberg. Bloomberg L.P.

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More Relief than Regret as Montreal Fails to Make it Mandatory

Chris Hall

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.