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Flagship Initiative Tracks Nature Opportunities

Chris Hall

Stewardship, emerging markets and supply chains will be key areas of focus within Greening Finance for Nature. The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 ‘ State of Finance for Nature ’ report suggested that investments in nature-based solutions (NbS) to date have been underwhelming.

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Nature Map – a new tool to support countries to integrate nature and climate in policymaking and promote nature-based solutions

Sustainable Development Network

Says Neil Burgess, Chief Scientist at UNEP-WCMC: “ Nature Map is a crucial new tool that can help to guide policies that tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together. Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success.

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

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN is proud to have contributed to Chapter 6 "Transforming food systems" of UNEP's 2022 Emissions Gap Report thanks to our FABLE Consortium scientific director Aline Mosnier. 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.

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Engagement with Consequences

Chris Hall

Despite this trend, commentators like Dan Carlin, UNEP FI’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Program Lead, have made the case for further engagement with the fossil fuel industry. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5

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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C Sustainability also needs to extend to the supply chain. “As There breadth of opportunity offered by the renewables transition is only now becoming apparent.

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Scaling Corporate Climate Action

Chris Hall

This aims to bring change to all aspects of the business and supply chain. We don’t live in such a world and so we are reliant globally on large corporates stepping up to the plate and driving actions through their value chains. We need to be supporting both actions.

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The ESG Interview: From Ground Level to Board Level

Chris Hall

Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We UNEP FI is going to play a big role in in the year ahead in the piloting programmes to work out what this will look like.”.

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