3BL Media

JUNE 10, 2022

Blackstone leaders joined the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit to offer their perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change and the energy transition. Robert Horn is Global Head of the Sustainable Resources Group for Blackstone Credit. Jean Rogers is Global Head of ESG at Blackstone.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

UK-based bank Barclays will no longer directly finance new oil and gas projects, and will require its energy sector clients to produce transition plans or decarbonization strategies by the beginning of next year, according to a new “Climate Change Statement” released by the bank.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. C of warming.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The new Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress report, “Work toward net zero: The rise of the Green Collar workforce in a just transition,” presents a detailed look at the impacts of decarbonization, with a particular focus on the workforce., ” Click here to access the Deloitte report.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company’s sustainability-focused platform McKinsey Sustainability and Moody’s financial intelligence and analytical tools unit Moody’s Analytics announced today the launch of a suite of solutions aimed at helping banks identify, measure, and act on climate change-related risks and opportunities.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Achieving a whole economy transition will require common definitions of transition finance across the four strategies and common methodologies for measuring their impact on emissions. The principles outlined in the consultation document are designed to be voluntary, pan-sector and globally applicable.

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ESG Today

MAY 2, 2023

The fund invests in companies founded or run by diverse talent driving innovation to advance the low carbon economy in areas including supply decarbonization, electrification, tech enabled infrastructure, reliability and resilience, and intelligent demand.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The guidelines set out MAS’ supervisory expectations for the financial institutions to have a sound transition planning process, enabling effective climate change mitigation and adaptation measures by their customers and portfolio companies to manage the transition to a net zero economy, as well as the physical effects of climate change.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a letter from the organization to ING Group Chair Steven van Rijswijk, Friends of the Earth argued that under Dutch law, companies have a “duty of care” obligation to not create dangers that can cause avoidable damage to people or property, which it says applies to climate change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This innovative resource - launched at the COP28 Nature Pavilion in Expo City, Dubai - helps organizations navigate the landscape of nature and climate assessment methodologies and disclosure frameworks and surfaces leading tools that enable meaningful nature and climate action that can improve their environmental and business performance.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We We are committed to developing products that allow them to invest or participate in efforts to bring about a more sustainable global economy.".

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. But the report didn’t pussyfoot around the issues: “Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost said: “Our 2030 strategy for sustainable investing is the next step in CalPERS’ efforts to improve our long-term investment returns while also making meaningful progress in the fight against climate change.

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ESG Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Azadeh Sabour, Senior Vice President of Climate Solutions at Morningstar Sustainalytics, said: “As the effects of climate change further materialize, companies are likely to face rising transition costs tied to decarbonizing the global economy.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

That happened recently when I thought to myself, “Huh…it seems to me that the burden of proof on climate change has finally shifted in America.”. Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. It will cost too much money to decarbonize our economy,” they protest.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

These efforts are part of companies’ efforts to measure and reduce their contributions to climate change. This service offers customers a simple and transparent way to offset carbon emissions and take tangible climate action by supporting one of the United Nations’ climate action projects.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2022

Investors increasingly recognize the urgency of climate change and have allocated a growing amount of capital to sustainability efforts, with $500 billion dedicated to decarbonization in 2020 – double the amount invested in 2010. DESCRIPTION: The next ten years will be a critical decade to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Ahead of COP28, over 125 businesses from across industries and regions call on national governments to address the primary cause of climate change: burning fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This past summer, one in three Americans experienced the future of climate change and its repercussions of extreme weather , including hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat domes, and wildfires that now make summer the most dangerous season on earth. Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control, a U.N.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2023

Ryan Levinson, Director of the Mirova Gigaton Fund, Head of Emerging Market Energy Transition said: “Today, more than 770 million people lack energy access in the world4 – mostly in Africa and developing Asia – regions with populations that are also the most vulnerable to the global climate crisis.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2023

The guidelines released alongside the framework provide a standardized methodology to ensure that future government support is aligned with the country’s climate and energy priorities, and precludes funding of discretionary programs not aligned with the framework.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A lack of infrastructure and inadequate funding have been identified as the biggest barriers to using green hydrogen as an enabler of the energy transition and the decarbonization of the global economy. We are currently working on several projects, notably to decarbonize the grey hydrogen used in our European refineries by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. While investments in nature-based solutions cannot be a substitute for deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy, they can contribute to the required pace and scale of climate change mitigation and adaptation, concludes the report.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we live through the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), we are experiencing social and technological change at an exponential pace. At the same time, complex challenges such as climate change and inequities require us to rethink how we can do more – as a Company, as a society and individually.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The ensuing conversations — and, no doubt, many more to come — are a continuation of the learning journey I’ve been on for the past few years, seeking to understand the role of the financial sector in advancing sustainability solutions and a clean, decarbonized economy. Even still, last week’s conversations were a real eye-opener.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To increase the role played by offshore wind energy in mitigating climate change, deployment needs to ramp up across the globe. A new roadmap launched by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the UN Global Compact aims to achieve that goal. Find out more about the roadmap.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

These are just a few of the nightmare scenarios evoked by UN Secretary General António Guterres following the publication in April of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate science. We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C

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Sphera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To decarbonize the global economy in alignment with the goals established by the Paris Agreement, all economic actors in the real economy need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sufficiently to align with required emissions pathways. Linked financial bodies are also taking action.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2023

We need to halve emissions by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C C and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Decarbonizing supply chains alone will not be enough to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As such, our activity focuses on ambition and engagement that accelerates the transition in the sectors and markets where change is needed most, and where the impact of climate change is often most acute. The SBTi statement added: “We cannot limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are good signs of the global decarbonization of our global economies. LED lights, electric motors, building regulations… Is energy efficiency finally getting into the limelight and joining renewables in the fight on runaway climate change ?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year. We have only until 2030 to get things on track for a net-zero and nature-positive economy — this should sharpen our minds for action. Climate Change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—the world is not on track to meet its climate goals. The frequency of catastrophic heatwaves, flooding and droughts continues to have an increasingly deadly and devastating impact on all parts of society—including the global economy. The latest National Climate Assessment found the U.S.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 27, 2022

Along with 1000+ companies through the We Mean Business Coalition , we urge the G7 to lead a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels to create a more stable global economy where companies and the people we employ and serve, can thrive. . Companies like ours need widespread access to renewable power.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s clear that clean energy is the growth industry to invest in now to attract investors and talent, cut costs and build resilience in the global economy. As we look towards COP28, the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference now underway marks a major milestone on the road to Dubai. for every $1 spent on fossil fuels.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over the coming two weeks, business, government, and civil society will convene in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for the COP27 Climate Summit, to align on climate policies and actions needed to decarbonize the global economy. Governments and businesses convening at COP27 must align to: 1.

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