GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. government announced that all companies must be TCFD-compliant by 2025.

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CDP Climate Change Paris Agreement Corporate Financiers 296

We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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Net Zero Climate Change Supply Chains Supply Chain 144

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Failure to focus on water-related issues risks derailing efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. The UN has previously said that water and climate change are “inextricably linked”, with the latter “exacerbating” both water scarcity and water-related hazards, such as floods and droughts.

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Climate Change UNEP Net Zero CDP 59

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

CDP found that these financed emissions are on average approximately 700 times higher than the organisation's operational emissions. Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2023

HM Treasury established the TPT in April 2022 to develop a ‘ gold standard ’ for private sector climate transition plans Credible and robust plans According to the TPT, its framework provides the basis for companies to set out “credible and robust” transition plans as part of annual reporting its future business strategy.

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Net Zero CDP Development Global Economy 72

Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

A total of 2,253 companies across 70 countries and 15 industries have approved emissions reductions targets or commitments with the organisation, with 80% of targets approved by SBTi in 2021 aligned with limiting climate change to 1.5°C. C-aligned targets as the new normal for corporates.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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