We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 4, 2025

It is when 190+ countries will come together to review their national climate plans and investments 10 years after adopting the Paris Agreement and amid intensifying climate impacts and geopolitical tensions. However, challenges remain in ensuring that conservation efforts persist alongside agricultural intensification.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In the words of Rob Moore, Associate Director at think tank E3G, the World Bank’s and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meetings represent the ultimate occasion to “break the impasse on the big gulf” that separates developing countries from providers of climate finance. We know that [developing countries’] needs are in the trillions.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 Make multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) catalysts of mobilization.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Agreement on the climate finance goal will also be important for countries who are currently developing their next commitments to global emissions reduction. The official target of limiting temperature rise to below 2°C crystallised at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. “Finance is a key enabler of the shift to a low-emissions future.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

A deal to establish a new carbon market and trading scheme for offsets, comprising a bilateral system in which countries can trade credits to meet decarbonization targets, and a centralized system for offsets, with 5% of the proceeds going toward a climate adaptation fund for developing countries. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Developed countries have belatedly reached a target for climate finance, only to be set a new one for nature. Developed nations mobilised US$115.9 billion of climate finance for developing countries in 2022, it was revealed this week, exceeding for the first time the US$100 billion annual level set in Copenhagen in 2009.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Hungry for change – With six years to go, UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – which aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition – is back to square one, at best. Three agencies are organising a series of six events – dubbed the NDCs 3.0

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 26, 2022

Through an experimental long-short ‘polluting-minus-clean’ (PMC) portfolio, Robeco took long positions in stocks identified by the firm’s proprietary SDG framework as contributing negatively to one or more climate-related United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). and 1.4%, respectively.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

It marked the first time the international community assessed its collective progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. support climate innovation and encourage cross-border and inter-generational collaboration for sustainable social and economic development.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

c) of the Paris Agreement, seems sensible – why would we collectively pursue investments that harm people and the planet? The Paris Agreement stimulated a reckoning to align public and private finance with net zero and climate resilience. Most investments are out of sync with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Multilateral development b anks are being urged to release data on lending in the Global South to help investors gain a better view. The GEMs holds the equivalent of three decades of loan performance and default data from multilateral development banks (MDBs).

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

considering sustainability as a value creator, the sector is developing innovative solutions to some of the world’s most complex climate challenges and is pioneering a sustainable future. C ambition set by the Paris Agreement. Steven holds a Masters in Environmental Technology and is passionate about sustainable development.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. Many of them address the obstacles faced by real companies in their quest to develop technology, products and services aimed at reducing emissions, combating climate change and achieving environmental sustainability.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In the words of Rob Moore, Associate Director at think tank E3G, the World Bank’s and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meetings represent the ultimate occasion to “break the impasse on the big gulf” that separates developing countries from providers of climate finance. We know that [developing countries’] needs are in the trillions.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Developing countries argued for establishing a loss and damage finance ‘facility’, which could mean a dedicated arrangement through which finance could be channeled. This will require consensus across all countries, both developed and developing, on the first day of the talks.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As of April 2023, more than 4,500 companies have set or committed to developing science-based targets 8 , 290 of which are from the food and beverage processing sector and only 87 are from the containers and packaging sector 9. In 2022, we started a Sustainability Agile Development Programme. Nature Food 2.3.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

Green Century Funds filed a proposal asking The Hartford to phase out underwriting risks associated with new fossil fuel exploration and development projects. Last year, the resolution received 25.9% of the overall vote, but received 22.8%

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The corporation, which manufactures wood pellets as a purportedly renewable alternative to coal, did what most industries do in prospective communities — they promised jobs, economic development, and minimal impacts. They made the same promises that they made to Ahoskie — economic development and jobs.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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Carlos Sanchez

JUNE 17, 2020

As CEO of Unilever (2009-2018), he set a bold vision to decouple the company’s growth from the overall environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact through the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. Founded in 1995 and directed for 8 years of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA).

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. while GDP grew too.

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B the Change

JULY 26, 2022

What has working across the global development and engineering sectors helped you learn about systems change? One corollary I see for this type of systems change is when the United States pulled out of the Paris Agreement. With recent developments coming out of the U.S. There were many mayors of U.S. It’s amazing.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Countries are required under the Paris Agreement to update their national climate action plans every five years, including at COP26. The Paris Agreement requires countries to report their NDCs, but it allows them leeway in determining how they reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. What is COP26 expected to accomplish?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The plan put forward by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) for a Loss and Damage Response Fund “is an evolution of the ‘facility’ proposed by developing countries and opposed by wealthy ones at the COP 26 Glasgow summit last year,” Climate Home says. Last week, Germany increased its annual commitment to €5.3

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2024

out of the 2015 Paris Agreement climate treaty for the second time. In our Top Stories in this issue, we have several articles on the developments that came out of COP29 and what they mean for efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. of the Paris Agreement. of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This target is set to replace the US$100 billion annual target created at COP15 in 2009 and is expected to drive trillions of dollars toward climate action. Developing nations advocate for a substantial increase in public finance from developed countries, citing their historical contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 1, 2024

out of the 2015 Paris Agreement climate treaty for the second time. In our Top Stories in this issue, we have several articles on the developments that came out of COP29 and what they mean for efforts to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. of the Paris Agreement. of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

warming limit set by the Paris Agreement, reaching 1.6C His decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement during his first administration bodes ill for international cooperation. Incorporating inflation from when the US$100 billion per year was agreed at Copenhagen in 2009 will bring us to about US$250 billion in 2035.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Providing funding to poorer nations to undertake climate action is not only a moral and legal responsibility for developed countries, but also a strategic investment in a cleaner and more resilient world. Funding for 2021 was one area where the Trump administration and Congress were in full agreement. $32 Joe Thwaites.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 25, 2023

Involving multiple agencies and acknowledging concerns such as urban air quality, it explicitly linked the development of new energy sources to ecological safeguarding. The race to be green The US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement undid much of this formative work.

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Sustainable Round Table

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The IRA taxes the wealthiest corporate interests and saves on drug benefit-related waste to be able to fund needed Medicare and ACA health benefits, as well as Paris Agreement-aligned climate action, while still enabling it to reduce the deficit by more than $270 billion. . This momentum is manifesting on the ground in the U.S.

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