Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It has been estimated that the global death toll attributable to AMR could rise to 10 million people a year by 2050 if we do not act now, with damage to the economy potentially being as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. million people in 2019, up 180% from an estimated 700,000 in 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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Mattison has more than 20 years of sustainable finance experience and previously served as President of S&P Global’s Sustainable1 unit. He was CEO of climate analytics company Trucost from 2001 until it was acquired by S&P Global in 2016. This means having the right data, solutions and actionable insights to rely on.”

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

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ESG Today

JULY 8, 2024

Steel and aluminium, for instance, contribute significantly to global economies and are central to enabling the energy transition as they serve as major components in infrastructure such as wind turbines, transmission and electric vehicles. What’s more, few have detailed plans to achieve longer-term goals.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The state of the planet. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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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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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 13, 2024

By stepping up their climate ambitions and backing them with concrete commitments, the G7 can catalyse a surge in global investment and reinvigorate their economies. G7 countries make up approximately 38 per cent of the global economy and were responsible for 21 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 27, 2021

GW in 2019 – the first year-on-year drop since 2016. Kyle Harrison, BNEF senior associate and the lead author of the report, commented: “Corporations faced a wave of adversity in 2020 – internal corporate functions were disrupted on the outset of the pandemic, and many companies saw revenues plummet as global economies buckled.

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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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James Militzer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

And it is preventing them from fully participating in the global economy, as international transactions are largely conducted electronically. It also forces them to spend time on inefficient processes related to handling cash, while making them and their customers vulnerable to security risks.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2022

Over the last five years, the FTSE Environmental Opportunities All Share (EOAS) Index outperformed the FTSE Global All Cap by 5.9%. However, investment in the green economy must grow markedly faster in order to meet global climate targets, the report highlighted. Sectoral splits.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Launched last month, GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 is an updated and expanded version of its predecessor – GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016. Although GRI standards are among the most widely used for sustainability reporting, only 40% of companies report on biodiversity globally, a 2022 KPMG survey of 5,800 entities showed.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

And a 2021 report from The Economist found that global online searches for sustainable goods had increased by 71% between 2016 and 2020. There’s no doubt that the climate-conscious consumer is rising as a force across global economies and capital markets. Yet green ETFs rarely share this information with investors.

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Sustainable Round Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

At Ceres, Bob founded the Investor Network on Climate Risk and co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) which has helped shape the field of corporate sustainability and now emerging mandatory requirements for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.

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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 That record was matched in 2020. Launched in October 2021, the SBTi’s Corporate Net-?Zero

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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

While countries, and indeed the global economy, have suffered in other ways, many are perhaps realising the benefits of reduced emissions. How can we ensure that as life and work slowly begins to return to something like normality we can keep working to reduce emissions and transition to a more sustainable and greener economy?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The analysis, " Banking on Climate Chaos 2021 ," underscores that while overall fossil fuel financing did tumble significantly in 2020, the total amount of financing provided to fossil fuel firms in 2020 was still more than $40 billion higher in 2020 than in 2016, at $750 billion. The banking sector maintains that serious change is afoot.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

China’s action could reshape an overlooked but critical segment of the global economy: the cross-border flows of scrap that underpin recyclng markets worldwide. Waste Dive, the must-read daily bulletin of waste-related news, named the initiative “Disruptor of the Year.”

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

Restoring landscapes and marine ecosystems is urgent not only because they are home to countless plant and animals, but because the services they provide are worth an estimated US$125 trillion every year to the global economy. The economy suffered a loss of US$16 billion. billion people.

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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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B the Change

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Behind these 1,000 B Corps, there are tens of thousands of people working hard to help their companies become better businesses, transforming the global economy to benefit people, communities, and the planet. “The B Corp community in France is so proud to have contributed to this collective European milestone.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Experts from B Lab’s Standards, Certification & Verification, and Global Partner Business Development teams share insights on the challenges and opportunities of bringing multinational corporations into the B Corp movement. B Corp Certification is for businesses of all sizes.

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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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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 21, 2020

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. By Type of Energy Solar PV firms play an increasingly important role in the global economy. These companies added 94 gigawatts to the global solar energy capacity in 2017.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human rights violations. Satellite images support accounts that Mukumbi – which had once comprised about 400 structures, including a school, a health facility, and a church – was destroyed by 7 November 2016. But climate justice demands a just transition.

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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. For public pension funds there is the added pressure from politicians. It can be an uneasy relationship.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Nature is the substrate of everything including our economy. According to WWF’s Natural Planet Index , natural resources contribute $125 trillion to the global economy annually. Our economy and our very lives depend on nature, without nature there is no economy and no life.

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