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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

3BL Media

With global attention focused on Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad), the event organizers have used the opportunity to highlight efforts to make the games more sustainable.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

It says states have a legal responsibility to control them that goes beyond the Paris Agreement. Itlos became the first court in the world to produce such a document on climate change. “We Climate 14. Such help should support global and regional cooperation, technical assistance and monitoring. Inequality 11.

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How climate risk disclosure became a battleground for the clean economy

Corporate Knights

Opponents see it as red tape and a constraint on competitiveness, while many climate campaigners say its the bare minimum. The shift began with the Paris Agreement in 2015, when the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created. Keep going when you get to the end.

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Take Five: Bold, Fresh, New Ideas

Chris Hall

Released this week, the report flagged its transparent proxy voting processes, its support for around a third of sustainability-related shareholder proposals and its reasons for voting against management at ExxonMobils 2024 AGM – but the worlds largest SWF still drew criticism for its US$6.15 billion of investments in oil and gas bonds.

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The war of words over climate change

Corporate Knights

While outright climate denialism is waning as the direct evidence of global warming mounts around the world, new and more pernicious forms of denial are gaining ground. And yet, climate concerns far from defined those votes, suggesting that the magnitude of the problem still eludes us. It will continue to be business as usual.