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Preparing for the Double Materiality Assessment: The Next Step in CSRD Reporting

3BL Media

Quick background to CSRD To deliver on the 1.5ºC targets of the Paris Agreement, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) was established in 2001 with the support of the European Commission. We explain what this means, why it's important, and how companies can prepare for it.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Joining the America Is All In pledge supporting the Paris Agreement in December is an early indicator. and Canadian operations.

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Climate change horror stories from around the world

Edouard Stenger

The world has a five percent chance of limiting climate change to 2 C by the end of the century, thus staying in line with what agreed during the Paris Agreement. “ Its surface area was 25 000 sq km in the early 1960s, compared with 1350 sq km in 2001″ A systemic problem requires a systemic change.

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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) The SBTi initiative was created to promote climate action within the private sector by assisting organizations in setting a science-based emissions reduction target in line with the Paris Agreement.

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Britons put planet before profit in their personal savings and expect more action from pension funds and banks, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

Climate justice was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement, for example, and the United Nations declared access to a clean and healthy environment as a human right in July 2022. And while the term didn’t appear at all in global media publications in 2001 , it now appears in the media up to 5,000 times a year.

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

If the administration’s rejection of the Paris agreement was the equivalent of a flawed interpretation of the law, our burgeoning trans-ideological climate movement may be the equivalent of changing the law itself — more consequential and more resilient. In 2001’s Whitman v.

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