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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

Carbon offset markets have always been complex and controversial instruments to fight climate change. In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. Besides, Removals projects, which sequester carbon like reforestation or Direct Air Capture.

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Church of England Pensions Board Slashes Carbon Intensity by a Fifth

Chris Hall

UK asset owner now 10 years ahead of net zero target; switches climate engagement focus to auto sector. The Church of England Pensions Board (CEPB) has cut the carbon intensity of its £3.7 On the road to net zero. Over the course of 2021, the pension fund reduced the carbon intensity of its portfolio from 93.6

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A Just Transition is an Orderly Transition

Chris Hall

In the race to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, many companies are jeopardising success by leaving workers and communities behind. The decarbonisation of our global economy is most likely to succeed in the short timeframe required if those most affected by the transition are brought on the journey.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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FABLE Consortium co-leads "Transforming food systems" chapter of the 2022 Emissions Gap Report

Sustainable Development Network

gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than one per cent, off projected global emissions in 2030. This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. NDCs submitted this year take only 0.5 C over the century. C increase, so there is hope.

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We’ve taken stock of corporate climate action and business knows what it needs to deliver the clean energy transition

We Mean Business Coalition

Our process was launched in May in support of the Global Stocktake (GST) process – the UNFCCC led report card on progress since the Paris Agreement. The Synthesis report released last week confirmed what we already knew, “the world is not on track to meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.”

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Scaling up clean energy – the greatest growth proposition of the 21st century

We Mean Business Coalition

The cost of climate change is rising at an alarming pace, with ripple effects being felt across communities and the global economy. Many countries across Asia also lack access to sufficient financing to fully develop low or zero-carbon infrastructure. It is simply sound economics and smart risk management.