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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

These droughts, bushfires, powerful storms and heat waves amplify the scientific evidence predicted by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that we are already living in a changed climate.”. Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26.

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Sink, Swim or Adapt

Chris Hall

“We expected the Adaptation Agenda to take centre stage in Egypt, however, the tangible outcomes were scarce,” admits Albertine Pegrum-Haram, Senior Associate of Responsible Investment at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. While countries agreed on the framework, which was based on a COP26 pledge to at least double adaptation finance to US$40 billion (..)

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