Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lord Patel said COP26 is “the perfect opportunity to highlight on the world stage the importance of nature-based solutions.” ” (image credit: ukhouseoflords , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 For example the restoration of the UK’s degraded peatlands, which efficiently lock away carbon while hosting a unique array of biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

A “clear and present danger” exists to life on earth from the loss of biodiversity, according to the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

COP26 in Glasgow highlighted the critical need for financial markets to be part of the solution to the climate emergency, and this partnership reinforces our commitment to enable this transition,” said Arne Staal, FTSE Russell CEO.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

And while UN Secretary-General, António Guterres insisted that last November’s COP26 summit had succeeded in its principal aim of maintaining as viable the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels, he conceded that the target is presently on “life support”.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England (and Canada) established GFANZ with billionaire Michael Bloomberg at the COP26 UN climate summit last November in Glasgow. Greenwashing is truly a clear and present danger.”. says Baltej Sidhu, an analyst with National Bank of Canada, in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Many boardrooms around the world are presented with net-zero goals. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high. Goals, targets and commitments are worthless without accountability and enforcement — and that goes for countries as well as companies. Many are asked to nod to those goals.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

A group of investors representing over $1 trillion in assets under management has published a letter to the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), urging it to prioritize the development of global reporting standards for companies to disclose on human capital and human rights.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report was launched at COP26 in Glasgow in November during the day dedicated to Cities, Regions and the Built Environment. What was WSP’s role in helping WorldGBC present the business case for green buildings? We asked David Symons, WSP UK Director of Sustainability, about what this report means for WSP and our clients.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

UNCLE WAFFLES JOINS LINEUP FOR GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL: ACCRA ALONGSIDE PRESENTERS INCLUDING BERLA MUNDI, JOSELYN DUMAS, MICHAELA COEL, NOMZAMO MBATHA AND SABRINA DHOWRE ELBA. 2022 GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL CAMPAIGNS FOR URGENT FINANCIAL RELIEF, CLIMATE FINANCE, FUNDING FOR AFRICA’S FARMERS AND INVESTMENT INTO THE FUTURE OF GIRLS EVERYWHERE.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The planet-killing comet movie Don’t Look Up slammed onto Netflix at the close of 2021, acting – in a way – as a satirical epilogue to the United Nations COP26 Climate Conference. When you have to present a case that involves uncomfortable truths, it is important to play to your audience. SOURCE: Antea Group.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Efforts to secure global commitments to phase out fossil fuels in prior UN climate conferences have failed, with last year’s COP27 agreement only calling for an “increase in low-emission” energy and renewables, and COP26 including a pledge to “phase down” unabated coal use and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As delegates head home, these are the key lessons that business leaders can take from Cop26. While some saw Cop26 as a story of opposing voices inside and outside, I believe that the street and the boardroom are closer than they have ever been. Nature came to Cop26 like never before. The number of companies setting 1.5°C-aligned

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3BL Media

JUNE 1, 2022

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), established at COP26 to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for capital markets, has launched a consultation on its first two proposed standards. We’re seeing signs of movement in this direction.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Following COP26, a total of 64 countries, covering more than 89 percent of global emissions, have pledged or are legislated to achieve net zero in the coming decades. This year’s Global Energy Perspective launches at a time when global energy markets are facing an unprecedented array of uncertainties, including the conflict in Ukraine.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a five-episode YouTube series launched in the lead-up to Earth Day 2023, former BBC presenter Dallas Campbell travelled the world to tout, in actorly British tones, the “exciting potential of hydrogen.” It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

With 67 days to go until COP26, CCAG is urging global leaders to shift emphasis towards net negative emissions targets as the only viable way to ensure greenhouse gas levels can return to pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. This means there is little to no room for manoeuvre, with only a 50% chance of holding the 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . Ahead of COP26, more than 750 businesses, employing 10 million people globally and with US$2.7 The COP26 outcome highlights the importance of countries doing everything possible to stay within the 1.5 °C C alive, just.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The ninth show floor theatre is the Research and Innovation (R&I) Hub organised by ETP which brings academic and industrial collaborative projects together by means of exhibits within pods and presentations in the R&I Hub theatre. Glasgow Climate Week is a COP26 legacy event and will now become an annual event. conference24 ).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The most recent UN climate conference, COP26, highlighted the role of forests and agriculture in ways we have not seen before. COP26 saw over 30 major financial institutions announce their intentions to eliminate the leading sources of commodity-driven deforestation from their portfolios.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The report highlights four main policy levers to unlock the full potential of the restoration economy: Implementing global carbon markets: COP26 presents a huge opportunity to create effective carbon markets and help unlock the restoration economy.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage. Currently, seaweed farming occupies about 2,000 Km2 of land, compared to about 60 million Km2 land food producing systems occupy.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26 , the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. Efficiency gains will flatten energy demand over the next 30 years and present the greatest opportunity for companies and governments. C above pre-industrial levels. Renewable energy forecasts.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Garraway notes that COP26 had a notable success on the climate mitigation front, with a strong focus on increasing ambition over the course of two years, despite the postponement caused by the pandemic. He notes a recurring pattern ahead of each COP, where similar concerns are raised and the same challenges are presented.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

More positively, she said there was “an absolute wall of money that wants to be deployed” in green investments, visible with developments such as the UK pension funds’ embrace of ESG integration and decarbonisation, and this is being driven by beneficiaries who recognise the risk presented by climate change, and have a long-term orientation.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

The G7 Communique shows a patchwork approach that failed to live up to the promise made just a few months ago at COP26. The Climate Club concept, linking trade and emissions reduction efforts also presents a welcome new approach. . and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. .

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

All this work was featured in our virtual Zero Emissions Solutions Conference alongside the first week of COP26. The Networks program also issued two new SDG Action publications to support the UN’s Decade of Action : the SDGs Edition in July for the High-level Political Forum and the Climate Action Edition for COP26.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. Ahead of COP26, the Rethink Farming report presents research from 18 case studies that are said to reveal how farmer-led innovation and nature-based solutions can positively impact farm businesses.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 6, 2021

To drive the global hydropower agenda, IHA has initiated the San José Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower, to be endorsed by the World Hydropower Congress in September and presented to COP26 in Glasgow in November.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) plans to deliver a statement in a public-facing panel-setting to present engineering solutions for the energy transition. Join SDSN's Aline Mosnier, as she presents Chapter 6 of the report: "Transforming food systems".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The World Biogas Summit 2021 will focus on how, in the build up to COP26, anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas can help reduce global methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The event takes place on 6 – 8 July. The company has rewritten the farm-based biogas production rulebook. View programme and full list of speakers.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

Frances Way, Executive Director of the Climate Champions team for COP26, discussed the challenges and opportunities involved in this commitment with a panel of member company CEOs. “At Data was also a launchpad for the I-Talks in the Presentation Theatre, concise introductions to emerging technology and insights led by insider experts.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Phase 1 includes reports of each country team (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Thailand), as well as a regional report, which are all currently available online after being published alongside COP26 in November of 2021. C aspiration of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The climate summit presents an opportunity for more convergence in the rules for voluntary and regulated carbon markets. . Following the eleventh-hour agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement at COP26 , it is hoped that COP27 will provide further momentum toward establishing a coherent and credible framework for carbon trading. . “A

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

“As a maritime nation with a rich history, and host of COP26 this year, we are proud to be at the forefront of the greener era for maritime, charting an international course for the future of clean shipping.” ” Throughout the week, ministers and industry will be presenting events taking stock of the sector’s progress.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

This is in contrast to the results following Glasgow’s COP26 in 2021, with 30% of investors agreeing that it boosted the chances of meeting the targets and more agreeing than disagreeing (29%) with the statement. The survey also flagged that each of the EU, US and APAC regions have different primary concerns on ESG.

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