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ICYMI, Opportunity Narrows on Meeting Paris Agreement Goals

Chris Hall

It seems unlikely that anyone involved in ESG investing would have missed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III report published at the beginning of the week. The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) whose asset owners and managers have a combined AUM of over US$35.8 he asked.

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From Ambition to Delivery

Chris Hall

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow. A carbon price is key,” he said. “The

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More Relief than Regret as Montreal Fails to Make it Mandatory

Chris Hall

A statement from 150 global financial institutions with US$24 trillion in AUM backed a “robust” GBF that provided a clear mandate for the alignment of financial flows, supported the disclosure of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies, and outlined clear targets and definitions to enable the development of nature-positive projects.

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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

We can’t achieve net zero without looking into forests and the role they play in mitigating the effects of climate change,” says Alison Lee, Responsible Investment Manager at London CIV, one of eight UK local government pension schemes. .

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A Dignity First Corporate Demand for Climate Action

Sustainable Round Table

To answer that question, in the final days of COP27, I published Dignity First Climate Leadership. CDP, “New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions,” July 10, 2017. link] UNICEF, “One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis – UNICEF,” August 19, 2021.

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Think Global, Act Local

Chris Hall

Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. Investors’ experience with climate-related risks are instructive, but only to a degree. It’s a necessity if we’re going to achieve climate targets to extend our focus to biodiversity.

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

The loss of forest cover has stark implications for climate change and biodiversity. What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation? Only days after the COP26 declaration on deforestation, the environment minister of signatory Indonesia, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, said the plans were “inappropriate and unfair”.