Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CEET Member Irene Canas Diaz represented the Council with a presentation titled, “Decarbonizing Mobility: A Roadmap and Solutions Catalog for Sustainable Transportation.” This dialogue sought to harness the expertise and guidance of the CEET to inform strategies and actions to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) plans to deliver a statement in a public-facing panel-setting to present engineering solutions for the energy transition. Join SDSN's Aline Mosnier, as she presents Chapter 6 of the report: "Transforming food systems".

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C In an accompanying commentary , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said: “I urge every investor, public and private, to put their capital towards a net zero world. C course to 2.5°C

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

In 2005, a group of investment managers organised under the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) commissioned law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to publish a report , ‘A Legal Framework for the Integration of ESG Issues into Institutional Investment’. How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects. UNEP is working with national institutions and FIs to strengthen domestic regulatory frameworks in order to address this challenge.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published its final recommendations for nature-related risk management and disclosure, serving as a tool to “operationalise” the achievement of Target 15 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). According to Tony Goldner, Executive Director of TNFD, the recommendations (..)

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

trillion by doing so, according to a World Bank report. Extreme climate-related events can reduce a property’s value by between 5-20%, according to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Last year, UNEP FI published guidance outlining the kinds of resilient buildings needed to cope with new climate extremes.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

The panel presented cases from South Africa, Mexico and India, where scientists are collaborating with government agencies to assess and design integrated pathways towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient food and land-use systems. Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, President of Siam University; and our director, Chandrika Bahadur.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. Yet, in reality, issues presenting immediate threats related to geopolitical tensions, and the governance and implementation of AI took centre stage.

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Chris Hall

MAY 23, 2023

Despite issues surrounding policy and regulation, investment in African solar energy presents investors with potentially high returns in a rapidly growing, high-impact sector. Due to a lack of “competent competition”, the market has potential to offer significant returns for private sector finance.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At COP26, the FABLE Argentina team participated in the side event ' Is it possible to achieve carbon neutrality for the AFOLU sector in Argentina? ', hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

But it does have credit in the bank. “The With rising concerns that the landscape of net zero pledges and transition guidance is becoming overcrowded, the UNFCCC will be expected to prove the validity and need for its proposed framework over the coming months.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A 2020 World Bank report estimated the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will need to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 – the equivalent of nearly three billion tonnes – to fulfil sufficient upscaling of clean energy technologies and energy storage solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Air pollution does not just cause health problems, it also presents a significant social and economic burden. A 2022 report from the World Bank estimated that the global health cost of mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution in 2019 was $8.1 World Bank. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 15, 2024

Working with the SPA team, the consultant will support the development and implementation of an engagement strategy for dialogues with key development banks and financial institutions. The incumbent will prepare presentations for high-level meetings (e.g. with InterAmerican Development, CAF, FEBRABAN).

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 29, 2024

Inclusive wealth is measured by both the World Bank and UN Environment Programme (Unep). The World Bank has been measuring it since the late 1990s, and first published global estimates in a 2006 report called Where is the wealth of nations : measuring capital for the 21st century. Which is it?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Despite developing countries having strongly pushed back on the US proposals that the World Bank should manage the fund, it was agreed that the World Bank will first administer the fund, but that this will be on a temporary basis. Some initial agreements were made in the November pre-negotiations in Abu Dhabi.

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