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Standard Chartered to Engage with all Priority Clients in High-Emitting Sectors Over Next 12 Months

ESG Today

The bank also revealed that it reached nearly $1 billion in annual sustainable finance income in 2024. While some banks have retreated from their targets, however, Standard Chartered announced last month that it has completed setting interim 2030 financed emissions reduction goals for all 12 of its high-emitting sectors.

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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. Those talks resulted in the first global agreement to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. Itlos became the first court in the world to produce such a document on climate change. “We Inequality 11. Climate 14.

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Bonn climate talks expose divisions over climate finance and tariffs

Eco-Business

Dialogue Earth attended this year’s conference, which marked the first gathering of all the UNFCCC parties since the US announced its second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. of the Paris Agreement, which reaffirms the obligation of developed countries to provide climate finance to those still developing.

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Urgent Deployment of Existing Technology Can Get World Close to Net Zero, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 Shows

3BL Media

The solutions needed to abate the remaining quarter of emissions are among the most challenging to scale: biofuels in shipping and aviation; hydrogen in industry and transport; and carbon capture and storage in industry and power. This is far from achieving net zero – and breaches the Paris Agreement with a global warming result of 2.6

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Here’s How Amazon’s Sustainability Pledge Is Going, 5 Years After Jeff Bezos Promised To ‘Beat The Paris Agreement’

We Mean Business Coalition

But when Figueres, the renowned Costa Rican diplomat and one of the key orchestrators of the Paris Agreement herself, came on board, via her own organization Global Optimism (“a group of stubborn climate optimists”) — we all sat up to listen. Beating the Paris Agreement’ is a huge statement to make.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. Now, it’s being taken up by a multilateral panel that is expected to report in 2024 if all goes well. The document also holds out the possibility of subsidies for carbon trading deals under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, and for Indigenous participation in fossil fuel projects.

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JPMorgan Leaves Net Zero Banking Group, Completing Departure of Major U.S. Banks

ESG Today

After rapidly expanding from 43 banks at launch to over 140 banks representing $74 trillion in 2024, members of the group have come under significant pressure, particularly from Republican politicians in the U.S., The targets remain in place on the companys website.