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Policy Gaps Curbing Private Climate Finance Flows

Chris Hall

Multi-stakeholder dialogue seen as essential in unlocking capital for net zero solutions, as GSIA calls for development of national transition plans. The CPI had previously estimated that global investment must increase at least seven times by the end of this decade to align with Paris Agreement objectives.

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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

A laundry list of corporate pledges and climate solutions are on discussion boards here, and one message comes up again and again: there is no meeting Paris Agreement climate targets without halting forest loss. . He calls the lost opportunity tragic and unnecessary. There are 1.6

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COP27 litmus test: Will wealthy countries finally pay for climate change loss and damage?

Corporate Knights

As COP27 opens in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, developing countries and climate justice leaders are urging a notoriously reluctant developed world to get serious about financing for loss and damage, with the immediate and long-term well-being of hundreds of millions hanging in the balance. “If The evolution of ‘loss and damage’.

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Cascale Expands Manufacturer Climate Action Program

3BL Media

The program provides an intermediate pathway to measure carbon emissions and develop science-aligned climate reduction targets for scope 1 and 2, or direct operations. C pathway of the Paris Agreement was a great experience”, said Jim Yuan, Assistant Project Manager at TÜV Rheinland.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

Between 2010 and 2019, the cost of wind turbines, solar panels, and lithium ion batteries fell 55%, 85%, and 85%, respectively, while solar deployment grew more than tenfold and electric vehicle use increased more than 100-fold. And that’s a very good message.” The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C C at the end of the century.

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What if government spent big on greening homes

Corporate Knights

The Canada Greener Homes Grant, and the accompanying low-interest loan, belong to the smorgasbord of incentives that aim to nudge Canadians’ dwellings in the direction of our Paris Agreement targets. These projects, he says, are carried out by market development teams instead of individual owners. Some provinces – B.C.

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The Power of Partnership

3BL Media

Trane Technologies innovates to develop heating and cooling technology that reduces emissions, and we are an important part of the solution. For years, Trane Technologies has been a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and in 2023 we joined the WBCSD Roadmap to Nature Positive working group.