3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2023

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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

The global economy relies on the health of the ocean, says Dennis Fritsch, Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy Finance at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). The resolution will help to forge an international legally binding agreement by the end of 2024. What is a sustainable blue economy?

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

Meanwhile, in its quest to make all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2030, the United Nations is preparing to launch a plastic treaty in 2024. According to UNEP , 91% of consumers express concern over plastic waste. Consumers are taking up the issue as well.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Founded in April 2021 by UNEP FI, the NZBA has 143 members overseeing US$74 trillion in capital. Last June , SBTi issued a consultation on the standard’s conceptual framework and initial criteria and was due to launch in Q4 2023 or ‘early’ 2024. As both thresholds were “comfortably cleared”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

.” Subsequent versions of the framework are set for publication in 2024, featuring specific KPIs for ten priority sectors and expanding coverage to include more asset classes and positive impact targets.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The CSRD, on track to begin applying from the beginning of 2024, is aimed as a major update to the 2014 Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), the current EU sustainability reporting framework. Banking association AFME’s response, detailed below, raised similar concerns.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

UNEP did at least try to change the mood by also examining solutions, specifically traditional, land-based and less-proven newer forms of carbon removal. And beyond its headline conclusion that we’re on track for only limiting climate change to 2.9°C,

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

This expert group includes representatives from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, standard setters EITI and SASB, and investment institutions FTSE Russell and S&P Global. GRI 12 comes into effect for reporting from January 2024, with early adoption encouraged.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet to date, businesses have mostly considered nature to be an unlimited and free provider of critical inputs into their operations and value chains,” said Elizabeth Mrema, Co- C hair of the TNFD, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP and former Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat that oversaw the COP15. “Scaling (..)

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2024

Although TNFD reporting is not yet mandatory for most countries which have published ESG taxonomies, investors could start 2024 by asking for more corporate disclosures on their impact on nature, thus assessing their own exposures to a range of biodiversity risks overlapping with climate, pollution on land and pollution in water.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

This expert group includes representatives from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, standard setters EITI and SASB, and investment institutions FTSE Russell and S&P Global. GRI 12 will come into effect for reporting from January 2024. . ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics ?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

General Motors announced it was delaying its plans to produce 400,000 EVs by the end of 2023 to mid-2024, citing battery supply issues. Frank Goguen, Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Newton Investment Management, notes automakers have been struggling with “major shortages of key components, such as semiconductors ”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With this in mind, the ICMA has now released blue finance guidelines to try and drive similar success in that market in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – a member of the World bank Group, United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Asia Development Bank.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

On 2 March at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in Nairobi, representatives from 175 nations endorsed a resolution to end plastic pollution and develop an international legally binding agreement by 2024. Today marks a triumph by planet earth over single-use plastics. Plastic pollution in Australia. Australia now produces 2.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Global Commitment, co-launched in 2018 by the EMF and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), sets targets for businesses to reduce plastic waste and pollution by 2025. A final agreement of the global plastics treaty is scheduled for the end of 2024.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

This will include initial product design and production to managing the waste at the end, fully realising a circular economy and generating an ultra-efficient process. Innovation plays a major part and one company, Humblebee, has taken a novel approach to search for an alternative solution.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Stronger wording might have been possible, but this was a big step in the right direction,” said Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). I wouldn’t be surprised if next year we see something of a policy pause in 2024, partly because of the nature of the election cycle,” says Thomae.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Later this month, an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee will meet in Senegal to begin work on developing the instrument, which the UN hopes to be in place by 2024. UNEP says 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated per year. Only 9% of all the plastic ever produced globally has been recycled.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

A recent UNEP report found that plastic pollution could be reduced by 80% by 2040 if countries and companies “make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies”. A final agreement of the Global Plastics Treaty is scheduled for the end of 2024.

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Chris Hall

MAY 23, 2023

megawatt (MW) peak of isolated solar grids by mid-2024. David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk at UNEP FI, recently wrote that the “lack of data and perceptions of risk are leading to a massively inefficient global market for low-carbon projects and rendering them financially unfeasible in too many places.”

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