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Time to Face our Challenges Head-on

Chris Hall

The answers to these questions will be shaped by the regulatory requirements faced by investors, including their fiduciary duties, their disclosure requirements, and the need to avoid greenwashing. This has led to a serious shake out in the sustainability space. subsidies, minimum tariffs).

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New Climate Policy Bills in California Herald Sweeping Changes for Businesses

3BL Media

The state's environmental leadership also extends to climate change mitigation policy. In 2011, enforcement began of the state's low-carbon fuel standard , the world's first. Acute and chronic physical climate risks facing California range from heatwaves to persistent drought, and a seemingly never-ending fire season.

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A Level Playing Field for Green Claims

Chris Hall

Dr Torsten Schwarze, Partner at Morgan Lewis, explains how two EU directives will shape Europe’s legal framework to restrict greenwashing. In this article, we summarise the content of both and explain how they are intended to interact in the EU’s fight against greenwashing.

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Can the World Bank Show the Way Forward for Impact?

Chris Hall

Figure 1: Climate finance – a snapshot of incrementalism The scale of investment in climate mitigation and adaptation is far short of what is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s preferred target of limiting global warming this century to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. Meanwhile, the search for definitive metrics goes on.

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