Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . commitment ?they they have made and?for for implementing?the

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.    This week, world leaders attempted to update the post-war global financial architecture to better support the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document. Putting a price on pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Overall, the findings of our analysis are sobering: seven years after the Paris Agreement, countries still do not sufficiently and consistently include emissions from, and actions for, their food and land sectors.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The final agreement, however, was not more ambitious than last year’s COP26 document, removing the 2025 peak emissions goal at the last minute, and only reiterating the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C. According to COP26 President Alok Sharma, even maintaining last year’s progress proved challenging.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

A problem with a lot of existing guidance from regulators or other organisations is that they publish big and complex documents that take a lot of time [for trustees] to understand. 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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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. But at COP26 the stepsister finally got her moment, and with good reason – methane has over 80 times the warming power of C02 , but it only lasts in the environment for a fraction of the time, so cutting methane emissions is the fastest, most impactful way to reduce global warming.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.

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