B the Change

JUNE 22, 2022

A recent surge of differing net zero definitions is overwhelming companies and threatens to distract from real efforts to drive business action on climate change. including many following the recent COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?—?has The fact that more countries continue to set national net zero target s?—?including

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Between the news media and the protests, it would have been easy to get the impression that this year’s United Nations climate summit, known as COP26, was all talk and no action. billion pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous peoples and local communities, underscoring their essential role in land stewardship. Let’s keep going.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

That much was confirmed at last year’s COP26 climate summit. A “ fair and just transition ” to an environmentally sustainable economy was a key theme at COP26, acknowledging that energy access and climate goals can work hand in hand, and that the world’s most vulnerable cannot be left behind in the green energy transition.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the opinion of Nigel Topping who served as UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion at the COP26 organized by the UK. Using biobased materials for construction could help but would definitively require alternatives in countless sectors. So one could say he knows what he is talking about. Indeed, our entire systems -ie.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Importantly, definitions of ESG-related factors should be clear and aligned with what any rating or score intends to measure. As announced at COP26, the new Board will work towards issuing a series of comprehensive global baseline standards, starting with climate.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

In a statement, the IFRS Foundation said its trustees and the VRF board confirmed their approval of a plan to consolidate the two foundations, a move that was first announced at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021 as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) was launched.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. While it’s too early to make definitive assumptions, each year matters. The process has pointed out areas of our business that perhaps we haven't thought about, and as it develops, we learn.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

In 2021, biodiversity went up the agenda for policymakers, disclosure bodies and financial institutions, both due to COP26 in November and the first leg UN’s COP15 Biodiversity Conference in October. Overuse and degradation of the oceans , as Mitchell mentioned, has also started to see attention.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Adaptation Fund received US$356 million from governments at COP26, and climate adaptation is expected to be a big focus for discussions at the climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Much depends on definitions, as these vary widely. Among others, this definition could include reduced VAT and the lack of a carbon price on gas and other fossil fuels used for heating buildings, or the lack of VAT or carbon price on aviation fuel. “In This would also raise revenues worth 3.8% of global GDP and prevent 0.9

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Levick also noted that the taxonomy could be employed via initiatives such as a net zero test, which the UK might apply to all its public investment decisions, utilising the taxonomy to evaluate whether investments align with the its definition of ‘green’.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

With less than six months to go until COP26 pressure is growing on the Government to show leadership on solar and other onshore renewables, as it has done for offshore wind. The full report can be accessed here.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. During COP26, Lord Goldsmith admitted the UK had ‘real problems’ with burning wood for electricity.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

By his definition, the universal ownership theory proposes that widely diversified investors, who own a broad-based stake in the economy, can have a vested interest in reducing market-wide risks relating to environmental or social issues.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 24, 2022

There are things we can do: diet shifts are definitely key for improving the situation. Otherwise, livestock and crop productivity in some places are very low; closing yield gaps and making sure that we are able to minimize land used for agriculture is definitely part of the solution. From commitment to action: who has a role to play?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

Launched last year at COP26, the ISSB aims to provide a reporting baseline for use in jurisdictions globally. The NZAOA called for EFRAG to clarify how the definition of value chain specifically applies to investors. . What are the main objectives of each standard? . Have the ESRSs strayed too far from TCFD?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Eoin Murray, Head of Investment at US$669 billion AUM active investment manager Federated Hermes said the report provides a “relatively” definitive guide to what actions can limit global warning. What further wake-up call is required by our industry of the necessity of shifting to renewables?” he asked. . This is not new.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It definitely feels like there is a bit of a groundswell at the moment, particularly in the generation below mine that are really, really engaged and really knowledgeable and have grown up with far more sort of education about issues than we would have had growing up in school. And I think that that’s what I bring to the table.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Unfortunately, with less than eight years left to halve emissions and current national commitments consistent with a 2.4 o C remains highly uncertain. C trajectory.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Yet to claim to be on track as a pension fund or an insurance company is to deny the obvious that the fund may be clean under your own definitions, but the structural problems have not yet been addressed.

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Chris Hall

JULY 18, 2022

Morningstar also noted a stricter shareholder value-led approach to US asset managers’ engagements with investee firms, as well as a “narrow definition” of fiduciary duty requiring managers to focus on maximising financial returns. Increasingly vocal.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Waiting on definitions A key question remains for investors interested in supporting global climate adaptation efforts: What can be classified as an adaptation-focused activity or solution?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

With the slow pace of standards development, companies are facing uncertainty about what information to collect.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Alignment between JETP countries’ standards and definitions is also necessary to instil private investors with more confidence in prospective JETP-aligned investments, according to CoEPB’s Hillis.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is expected to align its definition of green projects with global consensus on sustainable taxonomies to draw more international investors, after excluding fossil fuel-related projects when they revised the list of projects eligible for issuing green debt in April 2021. billion in 2021.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A statement from 150 global financial institutions with US$24 trillion in AUM backed a “robust” GBF that provided a clear mandate for the alignment of financial flows, supported the disclosure of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies, and outlined clear targets and definitions to enable the development of nature-positive projects.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

It also undermines the COP26 Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use by failing to tackle much of the UK’s deforestation footprint abroad, according to analysis by NGO Global Witness. . In April, President Joe Biden signed an executive order reiterating the country’s commitment to delivering on the aforementioned COP26 pledge.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

DESCRIPTION: At the recent COP26 climate talks, countries and companies largely focused on tackling climate change by decarbonizing the energy sector. I know these are harsh words, but think about one of the definitions of capitalism: It is the extraction of the surplus of value. Words by Leon Kaye. SOURCE: TriplePundit.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

They are also preparing for the impact of the 26 th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Working Group 1’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Physical Science Basis report has been described as “Code Red” for humanity, and with less than 60 days until COP26, there has never been a better moment for bold leadership.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

They are also preparing for the impact of the 26 th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Working Group 1’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Physical Science Basis report has been described as “Code Red” for humanity, and with less than 60 days until COP26, there has never been a better moment for bold leadership.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

Recognizing the crisis, leaders of 140 countries representing 91% of the world’s forests agreed to “halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030” at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow last year. It’s definitely more than just planting a tree,” he says. These are livelihood programs. ‘If

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 1, 2023

link] Chernichenko, Stanislav Valentinovich , “ Definition of gross and large-scale violations of human rights as an international crime,” United Nations Digital Library, 1993. To answer that question, in the final days of COP27, I published Dignity First Climate Leadership.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. More than 140 countries pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030 at COP26, but evidence suggest an increase rather than a decline.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation? Only days after the COP26 declaration on deforestation, the environment minister of signatory Indonesia, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, said the plans were “inappropriate and unfair”. The loss of forest cover has stark implications for climate change and biodiversity.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

At the COP26 climate conference in November, the United Nations identified hydrogen as the “backbone” of our clean energy future. We were definitely in that camp, trying to do everything. Alberta Innovates is the launch partner for the Future 50. Top 25 fastest-growing publicly traded companies. Next Hydrogen. Growth rate*: 8,800%.

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