Environmental News Bits

MAY 3, 2022

Read the full story from UNEP. The Land Use Finance Impact Hub and its Positive Impact Indicators Directory – launched today by … Continue reading UNEP launching new sustainable land use finance impact directory.

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

UNEP Report Calls for a ‘Step Change’ in Adaptation Investments. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued its annual Adaptation Gap Report, which provides a science-based assessment of the global progress on adaptation planning, financing, and implementation.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 29, 2024

Further alignment and streamlining of nature reporting is still needed, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said, as it predicted that mandatory disclosures are likely on the horizon.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched a database to help match nature projects with private and public funding.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 19, 2023

Data gaps need not prevent financial institutions from applying the draft recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), UNEP FI has claimed.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), ReNew.

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John Englart

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ozone recovery is back on track says the latest UNEP assessment report on ozone depletion and recovery.Rogue emissions from China of ozone-depleting chemicals had threatened to delay recovery by a decade. But the emissions were stopped, says the New York Times.“That

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2023

Speaking at ESG Investor’s inaugural Stewardship Summit, UNEP FI’s Head of Climate Risk says transition finance flows to developing economies are too low to meet net zero targets. The post New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UNEP FI’s Carlin appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including UNEP FI, ISS ESG, ISSB, Xpansiv and Carbon Trust. The post This Week’s Tech and Tools News: UNEP FI Issues Oceans Toolkit for Investors appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 10, 2024

On 7-8 March 2024 at the Buildings and Climate Global Forum, World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) joined the French Government and UNEP-GlobalABC, ministers and high-level representatives in discus.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Canada isn’t alone in its climate contradiction. The 2023 Production Gap Report , released by UNEP, the Stockholm Environment Institute and other partners, found that 19 leading energy-producing countries are planning to extract twice as much fossil fuel supply in 2030 as the maximum that can be burned to keep the world on a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JULY 16, 2024

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have now warned in a new report that many more “reservoirs of ancient, mostly uncharacterised microorganisms and viruses” could be lurking under the tundra – which is warming at four times the global average. Some of the identified risks are, unsurprisingly, environmental.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Investors and companies are increasingly setting climate and nature targets, but once those are in place, they need to be thinking more about how to redirect capital [in line with these goals],” Ivo Mulder , Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told ESG Investor. trillion in 2022.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To meet the increasing investor demand for objective SDG-related data, Bloomberg has integrated the UN Environmental Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Sector Impact Map, developed as part of its suite of resources based on its unique holistic impact methodology, into Bloomberg’s ESG data offerings.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

If countries and companies make policy and market shifts using existing technologies, plastic pollution could reduce by 80% by 2040, according to a recent UNEP report.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. It is a now problem,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. “To per cent off predicted annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, compared to the previous round of commitments.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Bloomberg said that it is the first data provider to integrate the UNEP FI Sector Impact framework into its data offerings. SDG targets include ending poverty and hunger, improving education, and protecting the environment.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Follow progress of INC3 at the

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a report forecasting municipal solid waste (MSW) levels to rise globally by two thirds. As have previous UNEP efforts and messages, the report endorses waste reduction techniques as important. Read the full story in Waste Today.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released the Global Production Gap Report on 8 November 2023. Governments in aggregate are planning to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 8, 2024

So much so that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognized the power of video games as a communications tool to spread environmental messages. Every year since 2020, UNEP has held what it calls the Green Game Jam that challenges video game creators to inject a particular environmental theme into their games.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 11, 2024

The biodiversity and carbon credit markets are "poised for massive expansion", but more needs to be done to connect the two mechanisms and utilise their co-benefits, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 15, 2024

Sources: UNEP, FAO, FAIRR, AIER, Business for Nature, Our World in Data, As You Sow, WHO, Sierra Club, ASPCA. Meat-heavy diets are also linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease. If upper-middle-income countries reduced their consumption of red and processed meat by 14%, it could prevent 65,000 deaths per year.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 28, 2023 /3BL/ - Ahead of COP28, the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), The Global Methane Hub (GMH) and Delterra are proud to announce their partnership to reduce methane emissions in the Global South. Learn more at: [link] and connect with us on LinkedIn & Instagram.

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Environmental Finance

MAY 22, 2024

Some banks are using a framework designed for the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) initiative to help meet reporting requirements under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) webinar heard.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Co-created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the IOC and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Sports for Nature Framework aims to deliver transformative action for nature across sports, by 2030 and beyond.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 25, 2024

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has discontinued the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which suffered an exodus of most of its members in spring 2023 due to antitrust risks.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 15, 2024

Sources: UNEP, FAO, FAIRR, AIER, Business for Nature, Our World in Data, As You Sow, WHO, Sierra Club, ASPCA. Meat-heavy diets are also linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease. If upper-middle-income countries reduced their consumption of red and processed meat by 14%, it could prevent 65,000 deaths per year.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data from the UNEP shows that some 60% of food waste happens in peoples’ homes. Food loss and waste wastes 1/4 of fresh water used in agriculture every year. While a significant portion of food is lost along the food supply chain, a lot of food is wasted at the household level. How can we help more people to waste less food?

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 26, 2022

For example, trees are the Earth’s carbon storehouse but the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that 10 million hectares of forests are lost each year. Each step in a product’s life cycle has environmental consequences and a carbon footprint. For every kilogram of paper, 3.5 kilograms of carbon dioxide are produced.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The in-person event, hosted within the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, runs from August 30 to September 1, during the Korea Global Adaptation Week (KGAW) 2023, one of the most notable adaptation events of the year, aiming to promote actions and practices to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. 

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The value of regulation is also championed by the experts

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3BL Media

JULY 31, 2023

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is working to develop an international legally binding agreement to address plastic pollution and the INC process is the vehicle used to negotiate and deliver such an agreement. As the name implies, the pending zero draft is only a starting point for detailed negotiations and even compromises.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 5, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issues a warning that around 2.5 In a recent tragic incident, approximately 100 elephants in Africa perished due to inadequate access to water. billion people worldwide could face water scarcity by 2025.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) produced for the Global Commission on Adaptation. According to the Commission’s Adapt Now report — which builds on UNEP-WCMC’s research — three crucial steps are needed to make this happen: 1. Raise understanding of the value of nature.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 11, 2023

More guidance on the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework is needed, a pilot with 42 financial institutions overseen by UNEP FI has said.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

Physical and transition risks being incorporated into a more holistic approach by financial institutions, says UNEP FI report, as regulators increase scrutiny. Climate risk management tools are reflecting an increasingly integrated approach by financial institutions (FIs), according to a new report United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (..)

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