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Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26

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SUMMARY: The need for climate finance – the local, national, or transnational financing that enables climate change mitigation and adaptation – was much debated at COP26. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Governmental Pledges. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Private Sector Initiatives.

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Climate change: Mars and PepsiCo offer lessons in decarbonization, call for a ‘redesign’ of supply chains

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With world leaders vowing increased scrutiny over businesses’ climate policies at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and regulators crafting disclosure rules to increase transparency around firms’ climate risk profiles, executives are scrambling to accurately map their carbon footprint. Read the full story from Yahoo Finance.

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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote

GreenBiz

The Anglo-Dutch firm first announced plans to give its shareholders a direct say over its climate action strategy back in December , in a bid to boost corporate transparency and governance surrounding its drive to reach net-zero emissions for its core business by 2030 and across its entire supply chain by 2039. It also has set up a $1.18

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The zero-carbon business leader takes shape

Corporate Knights

At the recent United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, diplomats from nearly 200 countries struck a major agreement to increase the fight against climate change — establishing a consensus that more must be done to protect the planet. The whole digitalization journey goes hand-in-hand with decarbonization: they support each other.”.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s," he explained. "To To achieve 2 degrees we need to decarbonize by mid-century. degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s. Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5

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World's Leading Agri-Commodity Companies Deliver Roadmap To Reduce Emissions From Land Use Change

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It is the next step in a commitment set out at COP26 by leading agri-commodity companies that manage large global trade volumes in key agricultural commodities, including more than half of the global palm oil trade and Latin American soy exports. The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C

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Three Reasons Why Tackling Deforestation Is a Business Priority in 2022 and How to Prepare

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The most recent UN climate conference, COP26, highlighted the role of forests and agriculture in ways we have not seen before. As climate becomes everyone’s responsibility, companies with significant Scope 3 emissions from soft commodities in their supply chains must account for and mitigate these climate impacts.