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Take Five: No Magic Green Wand

Chris Hall

The Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) , designed to accelerate investment in the clean energy transition, included proven renewable technologies like wind and solar, but also other innovations that have yet to deliver at scale, such as carbon capture and storage (CC S).

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Take Five: Twin Peaks

Chris Hall

But measures to support the goals of the Paris Agreement must now sit alongside those needed to realise the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In anticipation of the NCQG, the OECD released an analysis recommending use of public sector interventions to directly or indirectly finance climate action.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. Inconsistent information.

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How to Build a Sustainable Future

Chris Hall

Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.

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Are we Eating up Our World?

Chris Hall

Standardising environmental and social impacts in land-use investments needs to be a priority for the financial sector. Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects.

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