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At COP27, Investors, Companies, and Policymakers Must Accelerate Urgent Action on the Climate and Water Crises To Cut Emissions in Half by 2030

3BL Media

Hundreds of companies and investors including nearly 300 asset managers with a combined $68 trillion in assets have made net zero commitments. We’ve seen another record year of deadly, extreme weather events that are costing us lives, impacting vulnerable communities, and amassing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.

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The Adapted Metropolis

Chris Hall

It’s therefore vital that cities are built or renovated to be more sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather events. “As However, the focus has been on how to build back better after a climate-induced event has already occurred,” says WBCSD’s Hunziker. How strong are the materials used?

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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

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. Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C

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SDSN Reflects on an Impactful 2021!

Sustainable Development Network

At COP26, the FABLE Argentina team participated in the side event ' Is it possible to achieve carbon neutrality for the AFOLU sector in Argentina? ', hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050.

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ESG Explainer: Managing the Methane Menace

Chris Hall

Just prior to COP26, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) to improve the accuracy and public transparency of human-caused methane emissions. These estimates have not included the gas supply chain, which CBI says is a “significant omission”.