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NGFS Releases its First Short Term Climate Scenarios

ESG Today

The NGFS was established in 2017, with the purpose of helping to strengthen the global response required to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to enhance the role of the financial system to manage risks and to mobilize capital for green and low-carbon investments in the broader context of environmentally sustainable development.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

While publicly traded companies often dominate the headlines, private companies are a much larger part of the global economy. They dont have the same regulatory requirements to disclose information that public companies do, especially when it comes to revenues and profits. Historically, private companies are more, well, private.

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COP29 takeaways: a turning point for climate finance, but falls short on fossil fuels

We Mean Business Coalition

What it means: The $300bn is a modest step forward, marking progress under the Paris Agreement but falling short of the decisive action and timeline the climate crisis demands. Companies poised to act early will find themselves at the forefront of the growth markets in the global economy.

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How climate risk disclosure became a battleground for the clean economy

Corporate Knights

The shift began with the Paris Agreement in 2015, when the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created. Something like that is happening in the financial world, albeit with more complexity and jargon. Corporations are staffing up, Bell-Pasht says. Theres a huge hunger for expertise on this stuff.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion last year.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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Ceres Releases New Guide To Aid U.S. Food Sector’s Climate Transition Plans As Investors Ramp Up Pressure

3BL Media

It outlines how, despite greater corporate climate disclosure and commitments to greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, net zero targets and other climate-related goals, many companies fail to adequately disclose sufficient information to investors on how they intend to achieve said ambitions.

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