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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. Disclosure also prevents greenwashing. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. This year, the non-profit CDP, which runs the world’s environmental disclosure system, included new questions to assess firms’ approaches to biodiversity. Read the original article.

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Listen to the Science

Chris Hall

But SBTi’s status as the gold standard for companies serious about decarbonising in line with the Paris Agreement took a serious hit last month after a highly public spat between staff and executives. SBTi, a UK-registered charity, is a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and NGOs CDP, World Resources Institute and the WWF.

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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit

We Mean Business Coalition

This article was first published in Business Green. make greenwashing easier to detect and allow companies that are really delivering on climate action to stand out from the crowd. Business knows that 1.5ºC is a limit not a target. At COP27, over 100 businesses joined our call to stick to the 1.5°C C-aligned science-based targets.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Article 6 of the Paris agreement approval and the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets will play a key role in increasing carbon offsets quality.

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What Net-Zero companies are and How to start the journey

Carlos Sanchez

In this article, you will learn what net-zero companies are, why embark in such endeavour and how to make your net-zero targets credible. After the signature of the Paris Agreement in 2015, science has become widely accepted. Moreover, according to CDP, supply chain emissions are on average 11.4

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Investors Search for Answers

Chris Hall

And while there are instructive parallels with the catalytic impact of the Paris Agreement on identifying and mitigating climate risks by the private sector, there are also important differences. Critically, assessing nature risks is undoubtedly a more multi-faceted process than counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.