Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Targeted investments are required to save our cities from the climate-related risks flagged by the IPCC. The effects of climate change aren’t limited to distant ice caps. It’s therefore vital that cities are built or renovated to be more sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather events.

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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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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Methane is a primary component in natural gas and a contributor to climate change. Why is reducing methane emissions so important to climate change mitigation? This powerful warming effect causes experts to believe that cutting methane emissions is critical to mitigating climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Overlooked in most reports was HM Treasury’s conclusion that “any policy intervention from government to change fiduciary duty would be undesirable”, despite its acknowledgement of “a lack of clarity” around how the concept interacts with “sustainability and climate change considerations” among pension trustees.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Noting that the number of court cases being brought against companies on climate-related grounds has recently topped 2,000, the report says some plaintiffs are seeking to recover the costs of climate change itself, or the expense caused by having to adapt to it. Resort to the courts. Vital role of non-execs.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A climate and environment risk platform designed for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), STRATA, has been developed in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, and is powered by Earth Blox’s technology.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nevertheless, progress by the UNFCCC has been steady – a milestone was achieved at COP21 in Paris with the creation of the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action, now the Global Climate Action Portal (GCAP), that highlights actions non-state actors are taking to address climate change.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns. How are attitudes changing? How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Last week over 5,600 delegates from 190 countries gathered at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi for the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6). Let’s take a closer look at Target 3.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

The Main Plenary stage served as a forum for the kinds of cross-sector conversations that are necessary to solve complex problems like climate change and food insecurity. Data was also a launchpad for the I-Talks in the Presentation Theatre, concise introductions to emerging technology and insights led by insider experts.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. This includes the UNEP FI’s latest report comparing assessment and disclosure approaches of different frameworks on nature-related issues.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

As negotiations unfolded at the Bonn Climate Change Conference earlier this month, the politicisation of an existential and global threat was clear to see. What made negotiators’ incremental progress even more frustrating was that the squabbling was underpinned by the realities of a rapidly warming planet.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

To accelerate this transition, UNEP has developed a Land Use Positive Impact Hub to support banks, asset owners and fund managers to determine how to measure the positive environmental and social (E&S) impacts of their land-use investments. Mainstream institutions. Harmonisation and standardisation. The post Are we Eating up Our World?

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 17, 2016

Two important UfM Ministerial Conferences marked this transformative period; one on Environment and Climate Change and another on the Blue Economy. A forward-looking fundraising strategy was discussed, along with potential supporting partners and cooperating projects identified.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet to date, businesses have mostly considered nature to be an unlimited and free provider of critical inputs into their operations and value chains,” said Elizabeth Mrema, Co- C hair of the TNFD, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP and former Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat that oversaw the COP15. “Scaling (..)

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. Smith says there needs more understanding of the progress already made aligning finance with climate risk, which is set out in Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

The panel presented cases from South Africa, Mexico and India, where scientists are collaborating with government agencies to assess and design integrated pathways towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient food and land-use systems. Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, President of Siam University; and our director, Chandrika Bahadur.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

FELD Action Tracker Concluding its first full year of operation, the SDSN-led Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker undertook systematic analyses of national policies in key partner countries, including a dedicated analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) presented by G20 and other countries ahead of COP26.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Nature Map has been prepared by teams from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) Rio, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the support of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C We quickly went from the positivity of COP26 into 2022, which has presented a range of challenges for us all,” said Neil Brown, head of equities at GIB Asset Management. Beast from the east. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. In order of their presentation, here are brief descriptions of the brown, green, blue, golden, purple, white, silver, red, gray, and black economies.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

UN Climate Change’s NDC synthesis report found they would collectively only deliver a 5.3% C of climate change by 2100. Stronger wording might have been possible, but this was a big step in the right direction,” said Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

As well as drivers such as land and seascape changes, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species, the report also points to substantial expansion in the global trade in wild species in recent decades. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference. What has IPBES already told us?

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 19, 2021

In November, governments will convene in Glasgow under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Natural climate solutions for mitigation and adaptation will be high on the agenda, as illustrated by the recent G7 Nature Compact and the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature signed by 88 heads of government.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In fact, more than 90% of materials are either wasted, lost or remain unavailable for reuse for years as they are locked into long-lasting stock such as buildings and machinery, the report added. “It’s clear that we’re still going to need to mine minerals as part of an ongoing solution to climate change and addressing some of the significant (..)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vicki Bakshi, Climate Strategist at Columbia Threadneedle, outlines the key items on the agenda in Dubai and the predicted outcomes. Representatives from more than 200 governments will gather in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa from the 30 November for the 28th round of global climate change negotiations.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Less remarked has been the very large number of lobbyists in Dubai acting on behalf of oil and gas companies, the very organisations with a vested interest, one may have thought, in blunting whatever initiatives emerged to limit climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. It now amounts to some 400 million tonnes per year.

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