Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 Emissions Gap Report – aptly titled ‘Broken Record’ – clearly states that the world is a long way from limiting global warming to 1.5°C Adaptation bonds are among the potential vehicles for private investment, but policy action is still needed at COP28.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

For the past two years, our research has cautioned that the absence of any internationally accepted definition of net zero and any guidance on how corporates can achieve it was hindering corporate climate progress and the ability to measure the efficacy of corporate pledges. C trajectory. We need to be supporting both actions.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. The official verdict was clear. C of climate change by 2100. C in realistic reach.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

COP28 has been buffeted by controversy since the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was announced as host, with concerns that the country’s fossil fuel interests would jeopardise the meagre progress made since the Paris Agreement. The European Union (EU) bloc has outlined the importance of ‘scaling up climate ambition to keep the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2023

However, the NZIA’s existing three-pronged target-setting framework has previously been criticised for being too soft, with loopholes in definitions and a lack of ambition.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In January this year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) cast doubt on some of the more extravagant claims made for the ‘green-ness’ of natural gas. Here too, the skills of lobbyists are urgently sought, due to a UN agreement that member-governments will finalise a global treaty on plastic pollution by the end of next year.

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