Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The new capital markets targets will come into effect from 1 November 2025, while the rest of guidelines’ updated second version is effective from 22 April. Founded in April 2021 by UNEP FI, the NZBA has 143 members overseeing US$74 trillion in capital. As both thresholds were “comfortably cleared”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A rapid doubling of funding for nature-based solutions (NbS) by 2025 can achieve a ‘triple win’ for environmental sustainability goals, but must be accompanied by an end to ‘nature-negative’ price-distorting subsidies, a new UN report said. . Currently, the private sector contributes just 17% (US$26 billion) of total investment in NbS.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages. It also pointed out that rising temperatures are disrupting precipitation patterns and the “entire water cycle”. Today, as many as 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water and at the current global water consumption rate the situation will severely worsen.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Falling short – This week, Anglo-American miner Rio Tinto announced that it is likely to miss its 2025 decarbonisation target, representing a 15% reduction in group emissions, unless it turns to its “ last resort ” of buying carbon credits. The post Take Five: Sticking Point appeared first on ESG Investor.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While a company’s biodiversity strategy is being fully developed and science-based targets confirmed, we advocate a no-regrets approach , as defined by the UNDP, UNEP and IUCN and expressed by the Science Based Targets Network. Luxury meets biodiversity: Kering.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2023

They must report on all other facilities by August 2025. Members of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) were asked to publish their progress towards conformance with GSTIM by 5 August, for tailings facilities classified as ‘extreme’ or ‘very high’ consequences.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Phatisa, which operates across sub-Saharan Africa, wants all of its portfolio companies to have drawn up a gender policy complete with “stretching targets to increase female employment across different skill levels by 2025”. Nuveen, with 1.2

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 4, 2023

But this is “pocket money” compared to the US$44 trillion of global GDP dependent on well-functioning ecosystems, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Climate Finance Unit (CFU). There is reason for cautious optimism in 2023, as the conditions emerge to propel NbS up the agendas of stakeholders globally.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Estimated adaptation costs and financing needs in developing countries are between five to ten times greater than recorded 2020 international public adaptation finance flows, according to the 2021 Adaptation Gap report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). .

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the world experiences record global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions, the latest Emissions Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) found that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5–2.9°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The participation of the private finance sector in discussions finalising the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was welcomed by both Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Elizabeth Mrema, TNFD Co-Chair and Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. . “We

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

A recent study conducted by European clean transport campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) noted that there is already enough lithium and nickel available to produce 14 million EVs globally this year, even without Russian supplies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Packaging makes up around one third of the municipal waste generated annually in the European Union and the US, says WBCSD, with the cost of adverse environmental effects caused by plastic packaging valued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at around at US$40 billion. UNEP says 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated per year.

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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. The report, however, also said that business signatories are likely to miss key 2025 goals.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

For example, France has become the first country to introduce a policy requiring all new household washing machines to have filters to trap microplastic particles by 2025. Innovation plays a major part and one company, Humblebee, has taken a novel approach to search for an alternative solution.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Analysis from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) concludes that a 45% reduction in global methane emissions by 2030 is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 The partnership has developed an aspirational goal of reducing methane emissions by 45% by 2025, relative to a 2015 baseline. Created in November 2020, OGMP 2.0

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Carney was responding to questions from Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), about his expectations from members of alliances under the GFANZ umbrella which have not set decarbonisation targets for 2025. Heading for the exit?

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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). That’s something that the markets and the investors need to navigate,” says UNEP FI’s Fischer. C in realistic reach.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Just prior to COP26, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) to improve the accuracy and public transparency of human-caused methane emissions. The signatories recognised that rapid action on methane is an essential complement to cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs).

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