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ESG Today
JANUARY 17, 2023
S&P Global Sustainable1 and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today the launch of Nature Risk Profile, a new methodology aimed at enabling companies and investors to assess and analyze companies’ nature-related risks, including impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.
Global Renewable News
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
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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. Impakter.
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. The impact the Montreal Protocol has had on Montreal Protocol ozone UNEP
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.
Chris Hall
MARCH 31, 2022
Climate risk tools available to financial institutions suffer from shortcomings in data inputs and scope, despite recent consolidation and technology innovation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Public expenditure needs to be reformed to redirect finance flows, said a new report by the environmental watchdog. Investments into nature-based solutions should more than double to US$384 billion per year by 2025, it says
John Englart
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
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Impakter
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Health Society United Nations FAO OHHLEP One Health Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action UNEP WHO WMO WOAH wtoImpakter. A New One Health Global Action Plan is Out! .
Eco-Business
MARCH 4, 2022
The United Nations Environment Programme's Bhutanese regional head speaks to Eco-Business while in Nairobi, negotiating for the first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic waste. She says women should not feel guilty for having a family
Eco-Business
JANUARY 3, 2021
The former Procter & Gamble executive takes on a role as WWF's APAC lead for global seafood traceability based in Bangkok
Eco-Business
JUNE 2, 2022
As the UN Environment Programme reaches its 50th anniversary, we review its successes and shortcomings and how to strengthen its role in an era of deepening environmental crises
Impakter
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Clare Dawson Environment Science biodiversity biomimicry Emission Gap Greenwashing Janine Benyus NDCs Paris Agreement SDGs sustainable development goals UNEP
Impakter
JULY 12, 2022
Health Society ecosystems environmental impact assessments FAO JEE Joint External Evaluation One Health UNEPImpakter. Environment, Part of One Health, Is Often Missing in Action.
Impakter
JULY 2, 2022
Health Politics & Foreign Affairs Financial Intermediary Fund G20 G7 One Health pandemic Stockhom 50 International Meeting UNEP WHO World BankImpakter. One Health: The International Community Takes A New Step Forward.
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
3BL Media
APRIL 6, 2022
According to UNESCO and UNEP’s report, Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans, at least 98 gorillas were taken from the wild in a six-year time period.
Eco-Business
JANUARY 3, 2021
The former Procter & Gamble executive takes on a role as WWF's APAC lead for global seafood traceability based in Bangkok
Environmental Finance
JANUARY 17, 2023
A methodology for assessing corporate impacts and dependencies on nature has been launched by S&P Global and UN Environment Programme (UNEP
Chris Hall
APRIL 22, 2022
Estimated adaptation costs and financing needs in developing countries are between five to ten times greater than recorded 2020 international public adaptation finance flows, according to the 2021 Adaptation Gap report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). .
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 30, 2021
A new ENCORE biodiversity module by the Natural Capital Finance Alliance — a collaboration between the UN Environment Program (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the UNEP Finance Initiative and Global Canopy — enables banks and investors to analyze the potential impact of their investment activities in agriculture and mining on biodiversity loss, with focus on species extinction and loss of ecological integrity. Read the full story at Sustainable Brands.
Eco-Business
OCTOBER 27, 2022
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says huge emissions cuts are needed to hit the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal and avert the worst climate impacts
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.
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 17, 2023
According to a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations entities strengthened their environmental governance and staff training in 2021, signaling another year of steady progress toward improving the organization’s environmental sustainability. Read the full story at Environment + Energy Leader.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 26, 2023
The investor-led initiative will be advised by UNEP and is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Cape Town and the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
By EDF BlogsImage credit: Methane plume from the leak captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite on 9 November (data processed by UNEP/IMEO) By Adam Peltz and Jon Goldstein A natural gas storage site in Western Pennsylvania has sprung a massive gas leak that’s impacting both the climate and the communities who live in Cambria County.
Chris Hall
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
To mitigate the risks of investing in small EMDE projects and companies, Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit (CFU) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says investors are looking for opportunities with “some form of grant or concessional finance attached”. . “It’s
Chris Hall
MARCH 18, 2022
Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. 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.”.
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 18, 2022
C above pre-industrial levels, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Second, wind down production of existing fossil fuel stockpiles at the needed 5% annually, as per UNEP. Divestment from fossil fuels is accelerating around the world.
Chris Hall
JULY 1, 2022
This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas.
3BL Media
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Thank you to the IOC, IUCN and UNEP for joining forces under the Convention on Biological Diversity in this ground-breaking initiative to bring action for biodiversity from sports worldwide. SOURCE: International Olympic Committee.
Chris Hall
MARCH 28, 2023
of the nature risks and disclosure framework takes a streamlined approach to metrics through introduction of leading indicators.
Chris Hall
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Because of their multiple benefits, investments in NbS would represent “good value for money” at a time of global macroeconomic uncertainty, said Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). . Head of UNEP’s?
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The world-class panel of judges for the 2022 Innovation Challenge event included: Juan Pablo Celis Garcia, Youth Engagement Specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Illinois Institute of Technology students take top prize with Tree of Life carbon capture device.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 20, 2023
ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including WWF, UNEP, S&P Global Sustainable1, ISS ESG, and CHOOOSE.
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.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 31, 2023
A lack of engagement with key stakeholders and timing of greenwashing investigation among criticisms levelled at European Supervisory Authorities.
Chris Hall
MARCH 16, 2022
The global economy relies on the health of the ocean, says Dennis Fritsch, Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy Finance at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). UNEP FI members have taken action to innovate in the blue economy.
Chris Hall
MARCH 22, 2023
The world’s natural stores of minerals and metals are critical for battery-powered electric vehicles, but these reserves must be used responsibly.
GreenBiz
MARCH 12, 2021
UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson urged policymakers to carefully consider the Global Recovery Observatory report, which collates examples of green recovery spending from around the world and underlines the social benefits that can be unlocked by carefully designed green policies, such as improved health outcomes, energy cost reductions and enhanced food security. The (not so) green recovery: New report warns world is failing to 'build back better'. Cecilia Keating.
Chris Hall
MARCH 31, 2023
Current climate pledges by governments are falling short, with the latest analysis by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) putting the world on track for a temperature rise of between 2.4°C
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