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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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Mastercard: Planting Seeds of Change: How People and Partnerships Tackled Climate Change in 2024

3BL Media

But amid the chaos were signs of hope, courtesy of people who proved that our efforts do make a difference in the fight against climate change. Rising ocean temperatures spurred by climate change are making their job even harder. a brutal heat dome oppressed India and wildfires ravaged South America.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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SAP at COP28: Navigating Climate Change Together

3BL Media

The world is watching as tens of thousands of leaders gather for the 28 th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, from November 30 to December 12. Climate change poses an unparalleled challenge that necessitates collective effort – a challenge no single entity can tackle alone.

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What to expect from the UN's COP25 climate change conference

GreenBiz

2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency. This article originally appeared on Ensia.In

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

Corporate Knights

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

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What does 'climate risk' actually mean?

GreenBiz

It found that European pension funds’ awareness of, and desire for, action on climate change-related investment risk has surged, with 54 percent of those surveyed now actively considering the impact of such risks in their investment allocations, compared to just 14 percent in 2019. Business as usual?