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Norway Sets Goal to Reduce GHG Emissions by 70% – 75% by 2035

ESG Today

The new decarbonization goal will form Norway’s new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are national climate action plans presented by each country under the agreement, and are required to be updated every five years with increasingly higher ambition. of the Paris Agreement.

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Climate storytelling: Why Article 12 of the Paris Agreement could unlock everything

We Mean Business Coalition

That’s why I believe one of the most neglected clauses in the Paris Agreement might just be our best hope for planetary transformation. In arcane COP-speak – the Paris Agreement says communications is important to enable the rest of its own provisions.

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COP29 Ends with Target to Triple Climate Finance to $300 Billion per Year

ESG Today

One of the key outcomes of the conference was an agreement on the creation of a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), aimed at aligning global financial flows with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, with nations agreeing that climate financing for developing nations should reach at least $1.3

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OECD Warns of Climate-alignment “Blind Spot”

Chris Hall

The OECD report said actions to better align finance with climate goals had to be informed by robust assessments of progress, describing available evidence on best practices, finance volumes, and actions as “scattered and incomplete”.

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Ceres Welcomes Final Agreement at COP29 to Move the World Forward With Climate Action

3BL Media

At the start of COP29, more than 650 investors with $33 trillion in assets signed the 2024 Global Investor Statement, calling for a whole-of-government approach to implement economy-wide policies in line with the Paris Agreement goal to prevent worsening and costly climate disasters. For more information, visit ceres.org.

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Use of Employee Incentives to Hit Climate Goals More than Doubles Over Past Year: Accenture

ESG Today

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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UK Releases Proposed Sustainability and Climate Reporting Standards

ESG Today

As part of the consultation, the government said that it is seeking evidence of the costs and benefits of using the new UK SRS, which would inform its decisions on reporting requirements for companies. C goal of the Paris Agreement.”