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Take Five: Jam Open the Closing Window

Chris Hall

As well as echoing UN Climate Change’s assessment that nationally determined contributions needed significant strengthening, the UNEP report said the financial system “must overcome internal and external constraints” to become a critical enabler, putting the annual investment needed for a global transition to a low-carbon economy at US$4-6 trillion.

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Scaling Corporate Climate Action

Chris Hall

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. The ‘State of Finance for Nature in the G20’ report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) called for efforts to plug a US$4.1 o C remains highly uncertain.