ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the initiative’s latest report, Foundations for Science-Based Net-Zero Target Setting in the Financial Sector, banks, asset managers, insurers, and pension funds should ensure their operational and financing activities, as well as Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are aligned with global net-zero goals.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Nexus noted – The global focus on one sub-clause of the official response to the first Global Stocktake obscured other potentially significant elements of the 21-page agreement, not least its strong acknowledgement of the climate-nature nexus.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. An ideological shift demanded that addressing the impact of climate change be a holistic global effort across both the public and private sectors as codified by Article 6 of the agreement.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

The fund will be hosted in the World Bank and pledges of around $730million has been secured in Dubai. Global Stocktake COP28 witnessed the first-ever “global stocktake” under the Paris Agreement, and for the first time in a COP history there was a decision that explicitly calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But despite congregating on the margins of the 2022 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group, the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action did not appear to discuss the need for more urgent action on climate mitigation and adaptation from multilateral development banks (MDBs).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Amin wants to build on the progress made at COP26, which included commitment from 197 countries to the Glasgow Climate Pact , reinforcing developed countries’ responsibility to fulfil their pledge of providing US$100 billion a year to developing countries to help them meet their Paris Agreement targets. Increasing concern.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Most of those banks are members of the UN-convened net-zero banking group. .

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

C by the end of this century Updated pledges since COP26 in Glasgow take less than one per cent off projected 2030 greenhouse gas emissions; 45 per cent is needed for limiting global warming to 1.5°C This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

Much of its £14 billion debt pile was built up under the ownership of Australian bank Macquarie, but its current investors – including Canada’s OMERS and the UK’s USS – have not seen a dividend since buying into the company in 2017. They’ve also agreed to fund an eight-year transformation programme to the tune of £1.5

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

It is in the financial interest of investors and banks to ensure that companies invest in carbon credits in a way that reduces the systemic risk of climate change and does not expose them to additional reputation or litigation risks,” it added. At COP26, nearly 200 countries finalised Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New mechanisms for keeping private sector climate promises have taken big steps forward at COP27 this week, while major banks provided limited visibility on their path to net zero. . The UNFCCC already consolidates and monitors the nationally determined contributions of parties to the Paris Agreement via its Global Climate Action Portal.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The topic was a focus of high-level talks during COP28’s Finance Day with former Brazil premier Dilma Roussef, President of New Development Bank, talking about the importance of deepening local currency capital markets to lower the cost of capital for organisations on the ground.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Challenges for assessing loss and damage financing The Paris Agreement discusses loss and damage using the phrase “averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage”. The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, whose functions were agreed upon at COP26 in Glasgow, is gearing to provide only technical assistance on loss and damage.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As part of the Paris Agreement, developed countries were urged to make good on prior promises to scale-up their support for climate action in developing countries to US$100 billion per year by 2020. Commitments, however, have not translated into reality. Climate finance flows still fall short and mitigation wins the lion’s share.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.    This week, world leaders attempted to update the post-war global financial architecture to better support the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. One solution might be carbon pricing, and the imposition of such a measure was Bordini-Staden’s “biggest hope” for COP26.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

However, shortfalls in clean energy investments persist, the IEA said, noting that “if China is excluded, then the amount being invested in clean energy each year in [EMDEs] has remained flat since the Paris Agreement was concluded in 2015”. C is to remain achievable. .

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 To date, investors have mostly focused on climate mitigation through reduced emissions, but the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) took a step toward adaptation.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One such example of a region demonstrating ambitious climate leadership is our host this year, Africa, which the African Development Bank (AfDB) estimates to possess some of the globe’s greatest potential for solar power[5], amongst other renewable energy sources.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. license ).

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This would put China within range of overachieving on its NDC non-fossil fuel targets, but it would be insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5C In November, People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced it would provide financial institutions with low-cost loans to help firms cut carbon emissions. billion kilowatts by 2030.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Offsetting is often hypocrisy, and it is swirling around at #COP26. Offsetting is often a dangerous climate lie. Greta Thunberg.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

As countries look to update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ahead of COP26, leaders prepare to take stock of the progress made over the last 5 years and put forward new ambitious pathways. Key questions explored: How to promote the regional exchange of information regarding clean energy solutions?

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A key question of this year’s report is: what progress has been made in ambition and action since COP26 and how can the necessary transformations be initiated and accelerated? These policy papers demonstrate the feasibility of sustainable pathways to combat the risks of the tipping point.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Given the lack of progress on these fronts by many of its banking members, it was no surprise that GFANZ, the umbrella body for finance sector efforts to adopt net zero-aligned business models, simultaneously issued a proposed framework to help financial institutions to develop credible transition plans.

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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. Examples include Bank of Canada and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 10, 2022

At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Even fewer have implemented the rules and safeguards required by the United Nations and the World Bank for forest carbon trading. Communities at risk.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Six months on from COP26’s Global Methane Pledge, the quick wins needed to achieve 2030 targets pose steep challenges. At COP26, 112 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge , an initiative designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030. Delivering on the pledge could reduce warming by at least 0.2?C

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The future of his Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero was in question after media reports that major US banks were threatening to quit rather than accept legal risks that might arise from tougher membership rules. No denying it – Not everyone in New York was pulling in the same direction. But not his attitude to business.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Here’s what’s happening behind closed doors and why people are concerned that COP26 might not meet its goals. What is COP26? That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 COP26 stands for the 26th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC. What happens at COP26?

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The World Bank estimates that the annual production of municipal solid waste is expected to grow to 3.4 In 2019, the European Investment Bank, one of the largest providers of climate finance, excluded waste incineration from its Circular Economy Guide , and the E.U.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spent a large part of my career working on international finance at the World Bank and the United Nations and now advise public development and private funds and teach climate diplomacy focusing on finance. In 2021, the financial sector arrived at COP26 in full force for the first time. One year on, something is stirring.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

COP28 has been buffeted by controversy since the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was announced as host, with concerns that the country’s fossil fuel interests would jeopardise the meagre progress made since the Paris Agreement. Some initial agreements were made in the November pre-negotiations in Abu Dhabi. C of warming.

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