Corporate Knights

JANUARY 23, 2024

It dismissed a petition that circulated at COP26, asking it to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Subtly, the onus of carbon reduction was shifted from the company onto the consumer. As climate awareness grew, Big Oil’s advertising budgets exploded.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

“With the UK hosting COP26 in Glasgow in 2020, the country’s actions will be under close scrutiny and there will be nowhere to hide if we fall short of doing our part,” said Kiran Sura of PwC. Between 2012 and 2016, peak coal phase-out years, the UK achieved an annual average rate of decarbonisation of 6.9%.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As 22 May marked the International Day of Biological Diversity , we are less than eight years away from the 2030 deadline to reverse biodiversity loss, which was internationally reaffirmed at November’s COP26 climate conference. A revised standard for biodiversity impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The array would utilise Nova’s next generation 100kW tidal turbines – innovative, world-leading technology that has been powering homes and businesses in Shetland since 2016. Nova Innovation met with members of the Indonesian delegation to COP26 in Glasgow to discuss the potential for tidal energy in the country.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4 C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. billion last year. More than 90% of what we take from the Earth to fulfil our needs and wants goes to waste, with just 8.6% of materials cycled. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C, and to meet 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2022

billion between 2016-18 to US$14 billion between 2019-21 – a 60% decrease. . The Adaptation Fund received US$356 million from governments at COP26, and climate adaptation is expected to be a big focus for discussions at the climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh. . Slowly but surely .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Banks were hit by a double salvo for continued financing of fossil fuel firms in the face of widely accepted net zero roadmaps and the commitments made at COP26. Campaign groups led by Urgewald and Reclaim Finance reported that commercial banks channelled US$1.5 trillion.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 6, 2022

At COP26, philanthropists teamed up with the Danish and Costa Rican governments to launch the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance , or BOGA. From 2016 to 2020, known foundation funding to climate mitigation nearly doubled, from 1 billion dollars to 1.9 At the same time, more philanthropies are directing more resources to climate.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The US scenario is likely to be repeated elsewhere, said Kelly Shields, Senior Officer for Banking Standards at ShareAction, which has found that leading European banks have financed upstream oil and gas expansion to the tune of more than US$400 billion since 2016. “As

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

The FRC is separately investigating KPMG and former Carillion directors over the auditing of 2016 accounts. . Prior to COP26 last year, a group of asset owners and managers wrote to COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma to urge governments to set a timeline for the introduction of net zero accounting and auditing. .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

From 2016 to 2020, the 38 banks that exclude direct finance for coal-fired power plants have nonetheless provided over USD 52 billion in finance to companies engaged in coal projects (Rainforest Action Network 2021).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

At COP26, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to reduce the country’s emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030 and promised to raise the percentage of renewables in its energy mix to 50%, growing India’s non-fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 gigawatts (GW) by the end of the decade, achieving 175 GW by the end of 2022. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2022

More than 140 governments pledged to implement policies to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030 at COP26, but the overall pace of deforestation has not yet slowed notably, with Brazil reporting last month its worst monthly losses since 2016.

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 21, 2022

The first half of the Symposium focused on global ESG strategy post-COP26 and the new Science-Based Targets Net Zero Standard. According to a recent LinkedIn survey, hiring for green skills grew almost 40% globally from 2016-2021, but demand for green talent will soon outpace supply.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A putative ‘Human Swan’, she followed a black swan on a paraglider across 11 countries and 7,000km on a migration survey during winter 2016. Keynote speaker on the night will be Sacha Dench ( www.sachadench.com ), an Australian biologist, conservationist, UN Ambassador and adventurer. MC for the evening will be BBC presenter Amy Irons.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Further, since 2016 firms have been able to deduct Petroleum Revenue Tax payments against losses incurred during decommissioning. The Glasgow Climate Pact , signed at the end of COP26, committed signatories to phasing out “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies”. degrees Celsius pathways.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Australia adopted an economy-wide target of net zero emissions by 2050 in the run-up to COP26. At COP26 in Glasgow, Australia refused to commit to phasing out coal. This explainer looks at the state of play in Australia and the role of investors in accelerating its transition to a low-carbon economy.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

are both signatories to the Global Methane Pledge (GMP), an initiative launched at COP26 in 2021, through which countries commit to taking voluntary action to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030, relative to a 2020 baseline. Voluntary efforts Canada and the U.S.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The London Stock Exchange has published a public consultation on the market rules for its planned voluntary carbon market, first announced at COP26 last November, which will provide access to publicly traded carbon funds focused on investing in climate mitigation projects.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Africa signed a JETP at COP26 in Glasgow, which committed France, Germany, the UK, the EU and the US to supporting its clean energy transition through US$8.5 billion in first-phase financing, provided through grants, concessional loans, investments and risk-sharing instruments over three to five years.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

European banks have financed upstream oil and gas expansion by more than US$400 billion since 2016, ShareAction research has found. Most of those banks are members of the UN-convened net-zero banking group. .

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Sustainable Round Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

His 2016 article in Institutional Investor “The ESG Evolution,” is lit with his genius and practical hope. Now, we will see who has the courage, compassion, collaboration, creativity, and commitment needed. It does not reflect the aspirations of environmentalists or even climate scientists.

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 1, 2023

To answer that question, in the final days of COP27, I published Dignity First Climate Leadership. United States domestically, and a global challenge through the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child filed by youth around the world, including Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

At the COP26 climate conference in November, the United Nations identified hydrogen as the “backbone” of our clean energy future. Founded in 2016 by two brash B.C. By 2016, the company was producing all-electric school buses, followed two years later by electric trucks. Alberta Innovates is the launch partner for the Future 50.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 19, 2022

From 2016 to 2019, none of the 10 developed countries that are members of the Group of 20 nations managed to reduce emissions at a rate consistent with their 2030 targets, the index shows. Its performance was second last to Russia – also a large oil and gas producer – between 2016 and 2019. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Chris Hall

JULY 20, 2022

When Ninety One took over as manager in 2016, around half of EAIF’s US$679 million portfolio was in electricity; with slightly more than a quarter in renewables. According to Moola, the recent evolution of its portfolio reflects the growth in renewables investment opportunities. It now has more than US$1.3

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035. As revealed by the Mueller Report, Russian disinformation played a prominent role in helping to elect the disgraced former president in 2016. Ukraine delivered more than promises.

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