Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 10, 2017

2016 was a year full of action, excitement and surprises in the arena of sustainable development. Winter The World Happiness Report 2016 Update , which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, was released in Rome on March 16th in advance of UN World Happiness Day, March 20th. Some of the key highlights are summarized below.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 27, 2024

While consumer action is helpful, climate experts say the actions of businesses are far more important in reducing carbon emissions to meet the ambitious targets set by the Paris Agreement in 2016 (45% reduction by 2030 from 2010 levels and net zero by 2050).

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 23, 2020

Back then, in May of 2016, sustainable investing was gaining ground but was a relatively niche topic among believers (see the eye-popping chart below). The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals had been drafted.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2024

They called for the company to align its medium-term Scope 1 to 3 decarbonisation targets with the Paris Agreement and take more ownership of its Scope 3 emissions. “Shell’s updated strategy has moved the company even further away from Paris Alignment,” says Van Baal. The ball is now in the investors’ court. “But

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3BL Media

AUGUST 12, 2024

Tania Braga IOC Head of Impact and Legacy Delivering more sustainable Games Amongst Paris 2024’s key sustainability commitments is the objective to cut the carbon footprint of the event by 50 per cent compared to the London 2012 and Rio 2016 average, aligning with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

The announcement marks a major coup for the PCAF and is a landmark green move for Morgan Stanley, one of the world's largest and most recognizable private banking groups, which from 2016 to 2019 invested more than $91 billion n fossil fuels, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Ben Cushing, senior campaign representative at U.S.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

BNP Paribas is Europe’s leading funder of the development of fossil fuels, and the fifth largest in the world, according to the NGOs, providing $55 billion of financing between 2016 and 2022. The financial sector has a huge responsibility in our collective ability to comply with the Paris Agreement.”

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ESG Today

JUNE 6, 2023

Founded in 2016, Systemiq is focused on transforming five key systems—energy, nature and food, materials, the built environment, and finance—to improve our way of living and working. Created to support the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, the company is a certified B Corp.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. magnitude earthquake in 2016 in the Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh Province of Indonedia. . Delfina Grinspan. Wed, 04/07/2021 - 01:30. In the aftermath of the 6.5 Shutterstock.

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3BL Media

JULY 22, 2024

The first Olympic Games to implement the IOC’s strategic roadmap, Olympic Agenda 2020, Paris 2024 is adapting to the needs of its host and the challenges of our times by being more sustainable, equal and inclusive.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 5, 2016

The parties formalized their collaboration on the conference by signing a Memorandum of Understanding today at the Climate Action 2016 summit in Washington DC. The Government of Morocco will host the conference in partnership with UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ICLEI.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

WWF Chief Scientist Rebecca Shaw, said: “Sharp declines in wildlife populations are a clear and urgent warning.

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Good.is: Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

via UN Climate Change / Flickr 2016 — The Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement is a landmark international agreement that ushered in a new era in the fight against climate change. I can tell you that not a day goes by where I don't hear or meet somebody who says it changed their life."

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3BL Media

MARCH 3, 2022

pathway laid out in the Paris Agreement. It has already commenced efforts towards advancing the decarbonisation agenda, including reducing its market-based emissions by 92 per cent since 2016. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C

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3BL Media

JUNE 18, 2024

Targeting a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016, Paris 2024 has addressed the broadest category of emissions, also covering the indirect footprint of the Games (scope 3 emissions) such as spectator travel.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 13, 2024

And as early as 2016, the G7 set itself a deadline to eliminate inefficient fossil fuel subsides “by 2025 or sooner” But those deadlines are swiftly approaching. Acknowledging the interconnectedness between nature and climate is crucial for achieving the Paris Agreement objectives.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In 2016, the HYBRIT project was launched as a joint venture between utility Vattenfall , iron ore producer LKAB and steelmaker SSAB. Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Research will span the introduction of the Paris Agreement in 2016 to the conclusion of the 2023 proxy season, with the aim of comparing the voting patterns of asset owners and managers.

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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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ESG Today

MARCH 14, 2024

The company noted that emissions from oil products had already declined by around 9% in 2023 from the 2021 base, and said that the new target would represent a 40% reduction from 2016, including 8 percentage points caused by contracts being classified as held for trading purposes.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

In a bold move defined during the candidature phase, the Paris 2024 Committee pledged to halve carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. This amounts to over 115,000 new electric buses just in 2016 , an increase by a factor 70 in just three years! India has stated that its planned coal-fired power plants may not be needed.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was put forth as a unifying doctrine in which 196 countries agreed to work together to fight climate change and move toward a low-carbon future. Since then, country delegations have been working to identify the rules and pathways to implement the Agreement. Where did COP24 fall short?

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Chris Hall

MAY 2, 2024

billion in 2016-18 to US$14 billion in 2019-21. Blended finance is seen as a vital tool to contribute the capital flows needed to fulfil both these and the Paris Agreement goals. Cards on the table Despite the significant growth observed in the blended finance market, there remain areas for improvement.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 31, 2022

degrees Celsius by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement. This can start with something as simple as offering them an egg a day — the principle at the core of DSM’s Eggonomics initiative, launched in 2016 in Malawi, where 20 local farms now produce more than 25,000 eggs per day.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2016 the earth’s average temperature was the warmest since recordkeeping began in 1880. Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. That record was matched in 2020.

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Chris Hall

JULY 16, 2024

When a mysterious anthrax outbreak hit communities on the Yamal peninsula, Northwest Siberia, in 2016, scientists initially traced it back to the local reindeer population, which had been ravaged by the disease.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Most of those banks are members of the UN-convened net-zero banking group. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As with most real estate investment trusts (REITs), NETSTREIT’s corporate footprint is rather small, consisting of its headquarters location that already had been renovated and optimized from a sustainability perspective in 2016. The location received a LEED Gold certification for operations and management and achieved an Energy Star rating.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United Nations’ Paris Agreement charts the international community’s plan for limiting the impact of climate change. According to the 2016 Cone Communications Millennial Employee Engagement Study : 64% of millennials consider a company’s social and environmental commitments when deciding where to work.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 6, 2022

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. billion, an important and praiseworthy increase. This effort helped give science and frontline communities their rightful place in the deliberations.

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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. They failed. trillion — up from $2.5

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, the world added 138.5 The IEA estimates that $231 billion were invested globally in efficiency solutions in 2016, a nine percent increase over the previous year. However, we are barely reaching a third of the necessary carbon cuts to make the Paris Agreements a success. trillion USD per year (12.6

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Corporate Knights

MAY 14, 2024

trillion in financing to the fossil fuel industry in the eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, according to a comprehensive new report. trillion in financing for new fossil fuel expansion projects, investments that put the net-zero goal of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy. This sum includes US$3.3

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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. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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