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Sports Organisations Commit to Safeguarding Nature Under New Framework

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Twenty-three sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, signed the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework today. Spanish Olympic Committee. Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee.

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Nature – On The Frontlines At Davos 2024?

We Mean Business Coalition

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. How did the high-profile World Economic Forum event prioritise nature? The post Nature – On The Frontlines At Davos 2024?

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Eliminating Plastic Pollution, Reflections From Tracey Campbell

3BL Media

A few weeks ago, experts from the LyondellBasell Government Relations team and I had the privilege of attending key events related to the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 2) on Plastic Pollution in Paris.

UNEP 130
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AllianceBernstein: Reflections on COP28: Opportunities Amid Challenges

3BL Media

After years of negotiation, the fund, which will launch in 2024, received pledges of more than US$700 million from countries at the event. This is well below the US$387 billion a year that developing countries need, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Adaptation Gap Report.

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Mining Sector Needs “Social Compass”

Chris Hall

The investor-led initiative will be advised by UNEP and is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Cape Town and the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). It will further attempt to identify where existing ESG data can be consolidated, so investors and corporates can align.

UNEP 98
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Consistency Key to Achieving GBF Goals – FfB

Chris Hall

Speaking at the launch event for the framework, Dr David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD), said that to operationalise the 23 targets of the GBF requires “collective action across all sectors of society”. .”

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TNFD Vital to “Operationalise” GBF’s Target 15

Chris Hall

The TNFD will now encourage and support voluntary market adoption of the recommendations.

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