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Cracks showing in Mark Carney’s net-zero financial alliance

Corporate Knights

This is a sentiment shared by Richard Brooks, climate finance director for Stand.earth, a climate- and forest-protection NGO. We want to be unequivocal on this point: there is no rationale for financing new coal projects,” Carney and Bloomberg said in a joint statement , endorsing the Race to Zero ban on coal investments. .

Net Zero 360
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Nature-based Solutions “Good Value for Money” – UN 

Chris Hall

Ahead of COP15, which is expected to finalise the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) over the next two weeks, the call for a significant scaling up of financing for NbS was made in the UN’s State of Finance for Nature report. . Where finance flows, action follows,” she said, adding: “Where finance flows lag, commitments wither.” .

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The Current State of Play on Financing Loss and Damage

Chris Hall

Funding “nowhere close” to addressing scale and scope of problem, writes Preety Bhandari, Senior Advisor, Global Climate Programme and the Finance Centre at the World Resources Institute. Since 2000 , over four billion lives have been impacted and US$2.9 trillion lost to disasters, the bulk of which are attributable to extreme weather events.

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. And I think rewilding is giving a lot of people hope, and the storks are such an amazing emblem for that,” lead ecologist at Knepp, Penny Green, told Mongabay. By 2022, a green paper from the U.K.

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Unlocking Emerging Markets

Chris Hall

Furthermore, the IEA report noted that annual investments across all parts of the energy sector in EMs fell by around 20% over the previous five years, in part because of persistent challenges in mobilising finance for clean energy projects. . Poland was the first sovereign to launch a green bond in December 2016. Pole position .

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Baker Hughes Presents- The Global Methane Pledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Emissions Management

3BL Media

These included strategic gas supply deals, the strategic acquisition of innovative power trader NEAS Trading, and European green certificate deals. His previous positions include Director of Energy Sales at Goldman Sachs, Head of EMEA Energy Marketing at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Head of EMEA Commodity Finance at JP Morgan.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Chris Hall

According to BondLink, the new resource “significantly improves” the ability of municipal issuers to highlight how they’re addressing current ESG credit risks and showcase their green bond programs to investors in the US$4 trillion municipal bond market. of ESG issuance for 2021, according to the IHS Markit.