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Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments

GreenBiz

bank has become the latest financial firm to join the Global Carbon Accounting Partnership (PCAF), a growing coalition which first began in the Netherlands in 2015 and now boasts 66 formal members from around the world representing more than $5.3 Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. Not in this text,” said COP26 chair Alok Sharma. Clear follow-through on the phasedown of coal?

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World Green Building Council Forum to Help Keep a 1.5°C Scenario Within Reach

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. KEYWORDS: ACRE, London Climate Action Week, COP26. C future within reach.".

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India Commits to 45% Emissions Intensity Reduction by 2030

ESG Today

India’s first NDC was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, with goals to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources, and create additional carbon sink of 2.5

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Public Support for International Climate Action: September 2021

Environmental News Bits

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021.

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Impact on Carbon: How the EcoVadis Network Supports Companies in Tackling Emissions

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Carbon emissions have, in the years following the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement (2015), been established as the predominant issue in corporate sustainability discourse and strategy. SOURCE: EcoVadis. One recent study found that net zero commitments now cover at least 68% of the global economy.

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How to Engage With Suppliers to Join the 1.5°C Journey

3BL Media

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? We have just closed the doors behind COP26, yet another gathering of the big players of the world. In light of the newly launched 1.5°C