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AllianceBernstein: Reflections on COP28: Opportunities Amid Challenges

3BL Media

This is well below the US$387 billion a year that developing countries need, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Adaptation Gap Report. One of the ways to increase funding, according to UNEP, is for the Loss and Damage Fund to move toward more innovative financing mechanisms. MDBs provided about US$5.5

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Mining Sector Needs “Social Compass”

Chris Hall

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).

UNEP 98
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NZBA Sets More Ambitious Climate Targets

Chris Hall

Alliance extends net zero targets to capital markets activities, as frameworks provide more tailored approach for banks’ transition strategies. The second of the four guidelines requires banks to establish an emissions baseline and annually measure and report the emissions profile of loans and investments. billion from Barclays.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects.

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity. per cent compared to 2019.

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Accountability for a Just Transition

Chris Hall

But as much as private sector wealth and influence have been a cause of the sickness, multilateral development banks are resolute that they are also the cure. Fast action Public sector banks around the world are pivoting to climate finance and the unifying message is a need for speed.

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ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

Chris Hall

In 2005, a group of investment managers organised under the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) commissioned law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to publish a report , ‘A Legal Framework for the Integration of ESG Issues into Institutional Investment’. How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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