Impact Alpha

APRIL 15, 2024

The impact of climate change on infrastructure, properties, agriculture and human health could cost the global economy some $3 trillion per year by. The post Unwritten snags $3.5 million for ‘transition risk intelligence’ software for investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 12, 2022

Kahn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences A group of economists has issued a new estimate of the future cost of climate change that is grabbing headlines. The consultancy Deloitte estimates that unchecked climate change could cost the global economy US$178 trillion over the next 50 years.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This article focuses on the Climate Change topical standard of the CSRD, known as ESRS E1. Specifically, it explores the requirements for identifying and assessing climate change risks and opportunities and their integration into business resilience planning.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

The survey indicated that climate change has emerged as a top priority for senior executives, even as their companies face major geopolitical and economic disruption. In a year of continued uncertainty, disruption, and competing business challenges, leaders ranked climate change as a top issue.”.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The survey indicated that CEOs are more optimistic about global economic growth than in the prior year study, with fewer than half (45%) anticipating a decline in growth over the next 12 months, compared to 73% last year, with lower perceived exposure to factors such as inflation, economic volatility and geopolitical conflict.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MAY 18, 2023

With El Niño projected to return this year, the researchers project that global economic losses for the 21st century will amount to $84 trillion as climate change potentially amplifies the events' frequency and strength. trillion and $5.7 trillion in lost income in the five years following them.

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GreenBiz

MAY 2, 2022

By proactively addressing impacts of ESG, like climate change, companies can better predict future innovation to avoid supply chain disruption by advancing ways in which materials are sourced and ensuring the global economy drives value creation with ESG elements in mind.

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ESG Today

APRIL 18, 2024

Investment manager Wellington Management announce today the final close of the Wellington Climate Innovation Fund, raising $385 million in commitments for the firm’s inaugural climate solutions-focused venture fund.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Unfortunately, solving the problem of climate change is more complex than taking a blue or red pill. Bold decisions on climate policy can all too easily be reversed. This momentum might have been catalysed by concerns as to the effect of climate change on populations. Inflation has soared in many economies.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Trucking and logistics play a critical role in the global economy, but they also contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. In an effort to combat climate change, it is imperative to reduce the carbon footprint of the transportation industry.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JUNE 23, 2023

The global economy will grow slower in the 21st century than economists have expected, a finding that has implications for our ability to adapt to climate change in the coming decades, according to new research.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Glasgow Climate Pact made clear that the days of coal and fossil fuels are numbered, that carbon markets are here to stay, and that deforestation must come to an end. And as we head into 2022, climate change must be a top priority for companies around the world. But innovation is not enough. within reach.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

ESG issues continue to gain prominence, with climate change getting the most attention today. This will have a tremendous impact on nature that, in turn, will affect businesses and the global economy. As with climate-related risks, nature-related risks need to be better understood and acted upon. Climate Change.

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3BL Media

JUNE 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Two weeks ago, global business and political leaders met at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss geopolitical and environmental challenges. The need to move towards a net-zero economy, regenerative businesses, and an inclusive global economy were the key topics on the agenda.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2022

Remember climate change? Read the full story in GreenBiz. It’s not an entirely facetious question.

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John Englart

MAY 13, 2023

Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050. Shutterstock Andrew Blakers, Australian National UniversityLast year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined. Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Making substantial climate progress in a troubled, disrupted global economy will be the order of the day – and developing countries are expecting to be on the receiving end of long-awaited, rich-world largesse. Financing those efforts in a still stuttering, inflation-racked global economy will be a central talking point.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We are also at a tipping point in climate change. Climate-related disasters displaced three times more people than conflict and violence in 2020, jeopardizing education for millions of children. Climate change is also why the renewable energy sector is booming, opening new jobs with new challenges and skill requirements.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. That’s why biodiversity loss alone could cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the coming years, in addition to trillions more related to climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2022

Framework Convention on Climate Change, estimated that net-zero commitments covered about 68 percent of the global economy in 2021, compared to just 16 percent in 2019, a more than fourfold increase.… Net-zero commitments exploded last year, with the number of companies making them doubling.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By: Emma Cutler, Senior Analyst, Verdantix News of climate change- and El Nino-driven drought slowing traffic in the Panama Canal hit headlines last week. Where the news will likely never appear, however, is firms’ own reporting, even for those that experience significant losses, at least not as a climate-related loss.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 8, 2023

The loss of nature due to intensive land use, climate change and pollution poses "existential" risks to the global economy and financial system, a prominent central banker has warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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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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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Handling social issues like diversity alongside climate change will be crucial in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, a Brunel Pension Partnership executive has said.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Trade is the global economy's lifeblood, with maritime transport at its core. But the carbon footprint of port operations and shipping is substantial, with shipping accounting for nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions , according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Greenstone

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The risks resulting from a loss of nature and changes to natural capital have the potential to disrupt society and the stability of the global economy.

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3BL Media

JUNE 10, 2022

This year, the to-do list for the leaders of seven of the world’s economic and political heavyweights is long — from ending the COVID-19 pandemic, to averting an impending global food crisis, to taking meaningful action on climate change. Why This G7 Summit Is So important.

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ESG Today

MAY 31, 2023

A group of nearly 300 financial institutions representing almost $29 trillion in assets are urging some of the world’s highest impact companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Caterpillar, to disclose environmental data on themes including climate change, water and forests, through the CDP environmental disclosure platform.

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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

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

MARCH 23, 2022

It will be a major challenge – for many an existential one – even if climate change is addressed effectively. Further global warming will exacerbate freshwater shortages in much of the world, although increasing evaporation and higher average precipitation will benefit some regions.

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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. Climate Change. snowstorm within 48 hours.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The new commitment follows the establishment last year by CalSTRS of a target to achieve a net zero emissions portfolio by 2050, and forms part of its newly implemented “total fund plan,” which recognizes that “climate change presents material risks to all sectors of the global economy and all asset classes.”.

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