Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The 22nd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) successfully brought together climate experts, NGOs, and high-level government delegates to operationalize the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, a weak global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses and hindered progress towards the Goals. The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Today, a massive climate and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing gap still persists — and even after the SDGs and Paris Agreement laid out a critical role for the private sector in 2016, the subsequent years have brought only modest increases in private investment mobilization. trillion — up from $2.5 trillion pre-pandemic.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 13, 2024

It’s a chance not merely to discuss but to initiate decisive action on climate change — an endeavour critical to the future health of our planet and economies. Climate change isn’t a distant threat, it’s a pressing challenge that demands urgent action.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2016 the earth’s average temperature was the warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880. The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change.

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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Ken Fullerton , a fellow 2017 Young Global Changer recently caught up with her to discuss a Nigerian perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic and more broadly how countries and the world can recouple economic and social progress’ coming out if this crisis (click here to read the first part of the interview).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

These threats — such as commodity agriculture, climate change and overfishing — are specific to every land and seascape. But all forms of ecosystem degradation have one thing in common: When people hurt ecosystems, they also hurt economies, biodiversity and the climate. The economy suffered a loss of US$16 billion.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 24, 2020

"The conservation of the Amazon is critical not only for the survival of the 35 million people and the thousands of species who live there, but for the planet,” said Santos, Nobel Peace Prize 2016 and former President of Colombia. Only science and the unique knowledge of indigenous communities can save our rainforest.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. The framework sets out an ambitious pathway to reach the global vision of a world living in harmony with nature by 2050. In 2016, I attended COP13 as part of the WHC delegation of two people. I have to clarify that the U.S.

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EJOLT

AUGUST 23, 2016

This interview with Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria, from the research team of the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) explains how a global movement for environmental justice has risen. They also make the connection with the global economy and the need for degrowth.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 21, 2020

Propelled by reduced production costs and the looming threat of climate change, demand for renewable energy and efficiency is increasing across the globe. From 2016 to 2017, solar jobs grew by 24.5 percent higher than the equivalent jobs in 2016, indicating a gain of about 550,000 jobs. million jobs to the global economy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pension funds are confronted with immense pressures such as meeting their liabilities, managing deficits, navigating turbulent global economies, and coping with growing regulatory burdens. California’s proposed divestment laws addresses the systemic risk of climate change, he says. It can be an uneasy relationship.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.

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