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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

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DESCRIPTION: The United Nations Glasgow Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, concluded in November with 200 nations signing the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP), an agreement that could accelerate climate action and drive big carbon cuts. COP26 Reflects Increased Drive for Climate Action . SOURCE: AllianceBernstein. The problem?

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Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments

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bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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

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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. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too. 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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Impact on Carbon: How the EcoVadis Network Supports Companies in Tackling Emissions

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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. C warming by mid-century – a development that would irrevocably compromise climatic stability. SOURCE: EcoVadis.

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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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EU Member States Call on Major Economies to Ramp Climate Goals Ahead of COP27

ESG Today

The European Council announced today that its member states have agreed on the EU’s negotiating position for the upcoming COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference, including calling on major economies to immediately ramp up their near-term climate goals, and to scale up climate finance support for developing countries.

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