Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Another climate summit has come and gone. The 28th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28 to you and me) took stock of the world’s progress in limiting global heating to 1.5°C. C, as enshrined in the Paris agreement. Small islands Now let’s hear from the other losers.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 5, 2016

The Low-Emissions Solutions Conference is part of the overall global agenda to bring together the stakeholders that can design and implement Nationally Determined Contributions and Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDSs) under the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

COP28 reminded investors of the difficulties involved in reaching inter-governmental consensus on intensifying climate action. C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 20, 2022

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. The 17 SDGs provide the blueprint for creating a more sustainable future for all and address many global challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

The investor-led project is working to develop a free, publicly available, independent tool that assesses countries on climate change and aims to improve investors’ understanding of the climate risks in their sovereign debt portfolios.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

The Church of England Pensions Board and Dutch asset owner PGGM had already declared their support for a Follow This resolution calling for the oil and gas major to align its Scope 3 emissions reduction target with the Paris Agreement. Perhaps ominously for asset managers, she added: “Asset owners sit at the top of the value chain.”

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

A common message from Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of SDSN, is the critical need to articulate a clear long-term vision and not an incremental approach in order to avoid stranded assets and technology lock-in which will inhibit the energy transformation necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

More than 400 scientists and academics signed a letter in January urging the federal government to kill any plan to provide a tax credit to spur industry investment in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), one of the key tools companies propose to use to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. “We

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The 22nd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) successfully brought together climate experts, NGOs, and high-level government delegates to operationalize the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

How to Set Business Targets That Help Address Climate Change (Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash ) This article by Matthew Lynch , Rob Klassen , and Chelsea Hicks-Webster is part of “ The Basics ” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. As we move further into 2023, it can take a lot of energy to think about energy.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 4, 2018

On March 5-7, the City of Edmonton will host the first-of-its-kind CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, where scientists, policymakers, researchers, and development experts will gather to advance global understanding of climate change, its impacts on cities, and the critical role localities play in solving this challenge.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The transition to a low carbon economy has begun, but constant pressure will need to be applied to all stakeholders to drive financial capital towards projects and solutions supporting climate change mitigation and adaption. Evidence to date suggests that governments, companies, asset managers and asset owners are not doing enough.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The five day online event brought together 74 global technical experts and world-leading scientists, engineers, and innovators from business, academia, and civil society to share knowledge and showcase solutions to maximize climate commitments in the wake of the Paris Agreement. DAY 1: WORLD LEADERS SUMMIT Session 1A.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Despite hopeful economic signals in renewable technology markets, climate media outlets have been clear on the simple fact that the national climate commitments made to date under the Paris Agreement simply don’t add up to meet the emissions cuts necessary to keep global temperatures under 1.5C.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures. It ignores that some investments are still enabling climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

PCRAM 2.0), and integrating it into our Climate Resilience Investment Framework ,” says Danielle Boyd, Head of Climate Strategy Implementation at the IIGCC. “ Despite the recognition of adaptation’s importance, there is still a lack of robust funding mechanisms and clear pathways for implementation,” says Goodland.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As media investigations reignite the debate on the viability of carbon offsets, academics argue for wider stakeholder engagement and changes to carbon accounting approaches to build robustness. Zwick from Verra says for this reason “uncertainty values” are factored into carbon reduction claims.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 28, 2022

The new Western Balkans network will work to mobilize the region’s academic and research institutions, and leverage their strengths to help realize the SDGs and the Paris Agreement; as well as the shared ambition of an EU accession. SDSN Western Balkans (WB) recently held its official launch event on Mar 3, 2022.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Contributors to the white paper include leading academics, local authorities, the Durham Energy Institute, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, British Geological Survey, Coal Authority, the Environment Agency and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). For more information visit www.northeastlep.co.uk.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Duhig added: “ T he decarbonisation plans of UK oil and gas companies are woeful, lagging far behind the Climate Change Committee recommendations. Investors need to stop believing that these companies are a key part of the energy transition; they can’t and won’t change their core business model.”. A scandal over time”.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 13, 2022

The event was welcomed by contributions from academics and research institutes through roundtable discussions with members from SDSN Kazakhstan. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Kazakhstan was officially launched on June 8, 2022, on the premises of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

As the deadly toll of climate change is increasingly felt around the world, it’s more important than ever that we walk the walk. . Making good on a promise – Just as it’s important to reduce global CO2 levels to mitigate the effects of climate change, investors, companies and policymakers need to be paying attention to methane, too.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

The deep green sea? – The world’s oceans are changing from blue to green due to climate change, according to a new report from Nature, with researchers deeply concerned that the changing pigmentation of our oceans suggests “we are affecting the ecosystem in a way that we haven’t seen before”.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 16, 2023

POSITION SUMMARY SDSN is seeking a Program Associate to manage the work of CEET and join the Climate and Energy team. The Associate will report to the Head of SDSN’s Climate and Energy Program.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Annabel Clark, Programme Manager at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) urged asset owners to “not shy away from being ambitious”. “Asset owners have the right to engage with their managers on this and to build a more constructive relationship,” she added.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This represents a seismic shift in corporate climate commitments. Biogen has partnered with the Harvard T.H.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

“Constructive dialogue” sought by UK asset owners with managers, including meetings and their involvement in an academic review. This in turn increases the risks to pension funds long-term interests and the ability of those funds to serve the interests of their members/beneficiaries.”

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. The EJAtlas, which is the result of academic-activist collaboration, is popular with environmental justice organizations in many parts of the world. So, which actors could play a key role? All these cases are in the EJAtlas.

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