Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve been involved in the climate negotiations for several years as a former senior U.N. The Energy Transitions Commission , a coalition of businesses and nongovernmental organizations, calculated that if the commitments made at COP26 are delivered, it will cut the gap between today and the 1.5 official and I am in Glasgow now.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

Despite the undeniable evidence that the world is charting an increasingly dangerous climate course, world leaders once again missed a critical opportunity to act. Yet COP26 came and went without the detailed action plans required. What is required is systemic change. Above all, the climate emergency needs to be made personal.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

When it comes to gathering the collective will to tackle climate change, it is often argued that public policy actions and private sector commitments are mutually reinforcing, spurring each side to go further and faster. Even so, we were reminded how far the G20 nations are from meeting their COP26 commitment to keep 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? Getting any advice is difficult as carbon consultants are busy post COP26 and we, like many businesses nationwide, have limited in-house capacity to do it ourselves – although we’re making changes there!

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a result, investors have increasingly relied on unregulated ratings firms and data providers to assess, among other ESG factors, the impact of climate change on a company as well as the company’s own impact on the environment. Risk of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

Investor engagement with companies on climate change has come under the spotlight, with some warning of shortcomings with current processes. The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. How should engagement work in principle?

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate success requires laws that ensure consistent reporting on emissions reductions, writes Jane Thostrup Jagd of the We Mean Business Coalition. Debates are currently underway in both the EU and the US about how companies should report on the risks that climate change is bringing to their business – and vice versa.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jam open the closing window – The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 was the most sobering of the many pre-COP27 analyses published this week, highlighting the inadequacy of our efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C C course to 2.5°C

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B the Change

JUNE 22, 2022

(Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash ) Scaling Impact and Strengthening Accountability Toward Net Zero Through the B Corp Climate Collective Brigitta Nemes, Senior Manager Environmental Standards at B Lab Global, shares her reflections on a new direction for the B Corp Climate Collective’s work on net zero.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. Climate science is clear. We need to cut greenhouse emissions rapidly in this decade to avoid the catastrophic and unpredictable effects of climate change. Offsetting is often a dangerous climate lie.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Regulators around the world are considering increasing their scrutiny of companies’ emissions-reduction claims in a bid to dispel greenwashing concerns. . Companies will have to maintain good corporate practice on climate change, including a public commitment to reaching net zero by 2050.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Corporate climate best practice has largely been led by voluntary actions and non-legislative frameworks and drivers. o C remains highly uncertain.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Loss and damage relates to climate-related impacts which cannot be adapted to. Loss and damage is happening because we have not adequately tackled climate change, cut emissions or taken action to adapt. There has been significant development on reporting standards since COP26.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In 2022, the voice against “greenwashing” practices was clear and loud. Figure 2: Word Greenwashing rated 100 in popularity in 2022 – source Google Trends. Countries and companies have taken responsibility for climate change and raised their carbon emissions reduction ambition.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As some noted , legislative momentum on sustainability and climate was already slowing, just 100 days after COP26. While Europeans bemoan the lack of teeth in new corporate sustainability due diligence rules, the US is still struggling with climate disclosure rules, let alone green fund labelling or even carbon pricing.

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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. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures. It ignores that some investments are still enabling climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As one of the first countries to mandate TCFD-aligned reporting, then-Chancellor and now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero financial centre at COP26 last November, with the intention to mandate transition plans as the first step. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As one of the first countries to mandate TCFD-aligned reporting, then-Chancellor and now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero financial centre at COP26 last November, with the intention to mandate transition plans as the first step. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

No mean achievement – This time last week we didn’t know whether there would even be a deal at COP27, let alone one dominated by an agreement to create a fund to pay loss and damages to countries suffering from the physical impacts of climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two major topics of discussion on the agenda for COP27’s Finance Day were ‘Mobilising Finance for Climate Action’ and ‘From Ambition to Action: Mobilising Finance for Climate Solutions, Adaptation and Resilience’. It explains why activists and the public demand that the finance sector does more to address climate change.

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Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2022

Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government’s ambition to become the world’s first net zero financial centre at COP26 last November, where he also announced the intention to mandate transition plans as the first step. According to Alexander, the SDR regime has the potential to take bold steps against greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 5, 2023

“Ongoing support from policymakers and wider stakeholders to assist companies in reporting against ISSB will be necessary we believe, particularly for smaller companies.” The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) SDRs aim to bring clarity on how the regulator will approach greenwashing, while also increasing transparency and trust in sustainable investment (..)

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Climate Action Tracker described the amended goal a “significant step forward from the previous 26% reduction target” but said a 60% reduction was needed to put Japan on a 1.5°C Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A court forced Shell to reduce emissions, an activist investor forced ExxonMobil to replace three board members better suited to fight climate change, and Chevron shareholders voted against their board to achieve faster-cut carbon emissions. 4 – International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announcement during COP26.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The aims of the UN’s Climate Action Pathway for Finance , published in advance of COP26 last year, are nothing if not ambitious. By 2050, its vision is for asset managers to have adjusted their business models to ensure that every financial decision takes climate change into account.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. COP26 revisited. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be.

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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 17-member group is chaired by Catherine McKenna, a former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change. . “We

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analysts will need to deal with the challenge that policies intended to combat climate change will affect financial returns over a long time horizon. A more forensic and sophisticated analysis of net zero plans will be inevitable. Much of the burden of analysis will fall on the investment management industry. Biting the bullet.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As they work towards their climate goals, companies must prioritize people – and the just transition has been a key theme at this COP. This will make greenwashing easier to detect and allow those companies that are really delivering on climate action to show their impact. In fact, this has been a COP of action.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 17, 2020

According to scientists achieving net-zero before 2050 is critical to keeping us safe from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. The number of net-zero emissions commitments has doubled this year, as many prioritize climate action in their recovery from Covid-19 ( Data-Driven EnviroLab report). ETS in Europe).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

At the same time, the credibility of their climate strategies has been brought into question both by greenwashing scandals and recent analyses of the Paris-alignment of fund offerings. . Phasing down and out . At the same time, frameworks are being developed to provide detailed guidance to investors.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only did it set the tone for a wide range of adaptation initiatives throughout COP27, by focusing attention on the Global South it changed the narrative of climate diplomacy, helping to pave the way for the loss and damage fund , the proceeds of which will ultimately bolster physical defences against climate change. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To support emerging market climate transitions, developed countries and private investors are drawing up an ambitious blueprint, but is it working?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Climate change, environmental stewardship, these are very big systemic problems and issues to tackle. But then Typhoon Yolanda or Haiyan hit the Philippines, and that was when climate change was no longer just this distant issue in the near future. It was impacting people who look like me, like my family members.

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

These days, more and more analysts are equipped to inquire companies on major ESG topics such as climate change, governance or social issues. The IFRS presented during COP26 the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to drive international consistency of sustainability-related disclosures.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

Notably, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 – has been tasked with developing a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for the world’s capital markets. The good news is that developments are afoot that stand to usher in a more homogeneous future. .

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Something significant is happening in the desert in Egypt as countries meet at COP27 , the United Nations summit on climate change. Climate finance has been one of the thorniest issues in global climate negotiations for decades, but I’m seeing four promising signs of progress at COP27. One year on, something is stirring.

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