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ICYMI, Opportunity Narrows on Meeting Paris Agreement Goals

Chris Hall

“There is potential for cash rich companies in the developed world to fund on-site renewable generation, or lower carbon manufacturing methods within their developing world supply chain. What further wake-up call is required by our industry of the necessity of shifting to renewables?” he asked. . This is not new.

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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

With so much capital tied to deforestation-related risks, it’s more important than ever that UK pension funds gain visibility of investee companies’ exposure to deforestation, both directly and along supply chains, it added. . This is easier said than done. It’s not perfect.

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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. Although the finite carbon budget offers a compellingly clear focus for climate action, accurate measurement CO2 emissions across supply chains remains elusive.

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. This explainer looks at how investors can encourage companies to remove the products of deforestation from their supply chains.