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AccountAbility Joins With Global Commons Alliance and UN Climate Champions Team to Launch Navigator Addressing Nature and Climate Action

3BL Media

Razan Al Mubarak, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 said: “In the race to tackle climate change, nature is our strongest ally. Businesses and financial institutions have a vital role to play in delivering a nature-positive and net-zero economy.” Matic, Ph.D.,

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. We need to cut greenhouse emissions rapidly in this decade to avoid the catastrophic and unpredictable effects of climate change. Both types of projects are essential for humanity to achieve a net-zero future.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

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. And in America, Deloitte projects that inaction on climate would contract our GDP by 4% in the next 50 years.

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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance

GreenBiz

With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30.

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Church of England Pensions Board Slashes Carbon Intensity by a Fifth

Chris Hall

UK asset owner now 10 years ahead of net zero target; switches climate engagement focus to auto sector. The Church of England Pensions Board (CEPB) has cut the carbon intensity of its £3.7 On the road to net zero. tonnes of CO2 per million dollars to 74.3 – amounting to a 20.6%

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Scaling up clean energy – the greatest growth proposition of the 21st century

We Mean Business Coalition

The cost of climate change is rising at an alarming pace, with ripple effects being felt across communities and the global economy. Yet in the face of one of humanity’s greatest challenges – tackling and adapting to climate change – there is tremendous opportunity to be seized.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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