Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To combat climate change and address environmental challenges, financial institutions have recognised the importance of directing funds towards sustainability. While financing climate solutions has gained traction, financing for nature remains relatively unexplored.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jamal Srouji, Global Climate Programme Associate at the W orld Resources Institute, says the Global Stocktake is a chance to correct course on climate. This year is a critical moment for climate action. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Where our previous post provided an overview of the CSRD and who it affects, this piece focuses on the concept of 'double materiality', one of the most important changes to the reporting process under the new regulation. We explain what this means, why it's important, and how companies can prepare for it.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2023

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping. BusinessGreen.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The historic provisions, arrived at after round-the-clock negotiations by climate ministers and other senior officials, appeared in the energy transition section of the 21-page document. “A Rich countries with historical responsibilities for the climate crisis, like the UK, needed to do much more.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to the challenges of climate change. Arguably, we need to be thinking about transition planning as a system response to the challenges of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

JULY 12, 2023

MDBs have an important role to play in providing catalytic capital across a variety of projects globally to incentivise investment from the private sector. The group plans to accelerate institutional investment in EMDEs over the next three years.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

The policy won’t affect money that has already gone out the door or commitments that have already been signed, there is no published calculation of the future subsidies that will now be foregone, and the documents provide no cost figures for 129 non-tax measures that could be shifted as a result of this week's announcement.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. As with previous years, 2022’s conference has focused on implementing climate policies – with decarbonisation a key theme. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

The investor-led project is working to develop a free, publicly available, independent tool that assesses countries on climate change and aims to improve investors’ understanding of the climate risks in their sovereign debt portfolios.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

As the breadth of ESG risk exposure expands, climate litigation continues rise, according to research by the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute’s (GRI). Around two-thirds (1,557) of cases have been filed since the Paris Agreement was established in 2015.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 2, 2019

By: Elena Crete, Climate & Energy Manager, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Climate change is one of the world’s most complicated challenges, and nations are scrambling to organize around a common goal while maintaining their own interests. But small island states and others pushed to “welcome” the findings.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The development of the standard was led by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and IIGCC following an initial investor and company roundtable in November 2021 and took 18 months to develop, including a final consultation in May this year.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 30, 2023

Sachs and operates through offices in New York, Paris, and Kuala Lumpur. SDSN’s ongoing analysis under the FELD Action Tracker and Catalyst, including the review of updated NDCs and other key documents submitted by state parties before COP28, and of relevant global initiatives, and other information related to FELD products; 4.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As world leaders, negotiators, and thousands of representatives from NGOs, public and private organizations, youth movements, artists, and the media head home from Glasgow at the end of COP26, many will reflect on the outcomes of this 26th United Nations climate conference—the first big milestone since the 2015 Paris Agreement came into force.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . At the same time, frameworks are being developed to provide detailed guidance to investors.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

So, all of these things that we’re experiencing that are problematic as a result of climate change … are reduced if you can restore carbon to the soil,” Leeson said. The NFU considers it a threat to “treasured cultural landscapes” according to a consultation document submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Countries are obligated to report their greenhouse gas emissions to international bodies such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but recent studies suggest that the current methods for calculating methane emissions rely on outdated and incomplete information and may not accurately represent actual emissions.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

From jobs to climate change to reducing health disparities, our needs are many and investments to meet those needs will require mobilizing significant resources. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad. We must do better.

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Chris Hall

JULY 11, 2022

To be included in the taxonomy, gas-fired power or heat assets must have lifecycle emissions below 100 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour or “meet a number of stringent conditions and obtain a construction permit by 2030”, according to the Commission’s Q&A document. Members of the Joint ECON/ENVI Committee previously objected to the DA. .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new paper from an independent group of climate experts emphasises “the critical importance of a comprehensive financial and regulatory ecosystem incentivising emissions reduction and removal, supported by a properly functioning carbon price.” An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

“Investors have called for increased engagement with Asian corporates on the adoption of net zero transition strategies,” said Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda put a lot of promises in writing – not least commitments to protect coastal zones and oceans from the physical impacts of climate change. . The impact of climate change goes beyond rising sea levels and coastal flooding, which could cost US$1 trillion a year in damages and loss of land by 2050.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Established under Article 7.1

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

Investors are calling for accelerated climate action and increased transparency from Asia-Pacific (APAC) utilities despite their progress phasing out coal and upscaling their renewables capacity. South Korea’s National Pension Scheme (NPS) holds US$20.5 billion worth of bonds and shares in domestic coal companies and US$8.3

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Eco-Business

MAY 19, 2020

In recent years, the Singapore Government has steadily been increasing the breadth and depth of policies relating to sustainability and climate change. In the 2020 budget, and the subsequent Committee of Supply debates, a number of announcements were made, or reconfirmed, in the areas of sustainability and climate change.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.    This week, world leaders attempted to update the post-war global financial architecture to better support the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The clear highlight of the conference finale was the “Loss and damage” agreement, with developed nations committing to set up a fund that would pay for climate-change related damage in poorer, vulnerable countries. It does not address the yawning gap between climate science, and our climate policies.”

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Waste reduction and management, while not glamorous, are increasingly seen as low-hanging fruit as the world seeks climate solutions that can help keep global warming below the 1.5° Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The Overlapping Climate Impacts of Waste .

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Government action on climate change - while picking up significantly in energy, transport and a few other (sub) sectors - has so far not adequately addressed food and land-related emissions, as confirmed in FELD’s 2021 analysis. How much are current NDCs focused on action?

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

There also would be a pledge to ensure all financial flows are aligned with the Paris Agreement commitment to keep global warming to 1.5°C.”. In return, “countries would vow to peak global emissions before 2025 and phase down all fossil fuels—not just coal, which was spelled out in the Glasgow climate pact last year.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2021

He described budgets as living documents, which reflect both current priorities as well as political compromises. Koundouri warned that the cost of not acting on climate change is much higher in the long run, and emphasized that these objectives are not as contradictory as it may seem when long-term costs are considered.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists. If all goes to plan, the key messages will be released Monday.

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