James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2025

This shift to electric mobility (e-mobility) can reduce emissions from transport which are a key contributor to air pollution and climate change while providing many other benefits, from technological efficiency and lifetime cost savings to user experience, such as a quieter drive and less regular maintenance.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 15, 2024

Risks Increased climate-related natural disasters could lower the profits of the 40 largest livestock companies by almost US$24 billion in 2030 from 2020 levels. Sources: UNEP, FAO, FAIRR, AIER, Business for Nature, Our World in Data, As You Sow, WHO, Sierra Club, ASPCA. billion in Canada.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. Smith says there needs more understanding of the progress already made aligning finance with climate risk, which is set out in Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We have to minimize the risk of extreme wildfires by being better prepared: invest more in fire risk reduction, work with local communities, and strengthen global commitment to fight climate change” said Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director. Wildfires and climate change are mutually exacerbating.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. Climate change inequality, contributors and sufferers, has been a key agenda item at COP for many years.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. per cent in 2020.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The number of litigation-arbitration climate change related cases is on the rise. As of 1 July 2020, the number of cases had nearly doubled, with at least 1,550 climate change cases filed in 38 countries, according to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report. A changing landscape.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. When it comes to government, Usher is also positive about the progress made in terms of climate change policy, but he has caveats.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

The report seems to find that annual investments in nature-based solutions will have to triple by 2030 and increase four-fold by 2050 from the current investments of $133 billion (using 2020 as base year). If we do not save nature now, we will not be able to achieve sustainable development,” said UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success. Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Says, Guido Schmidt-Traub from SDSN, “these new maps are an important decision support tool for countries, as they prepare for the landmark climate and biodiversity conferences in 2020. Says Neil Burgess from UNEP-WCMC: “We will soon launch a wider consultation on the data and maps.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The combination of these maps has been used to identify areas of global significance for conservation and restoration, which could help to identify areas where conservation and restoration actions would provide the highest benefits for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and potentially other ecosystem services.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Climate change mitigation remains important, but the need to finance adaptation measures is becoming urgent, says Lindsey Stewart, Director of Investment Stewardship Research, Morningstar. “I I don’t believe in fairytales or sermons or stories about money, baby sister, but thank you for the cigarette.”

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as shown in the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024. In 2020, the direct cost of waste management to the global economy was an estimated US$252 billion. billion tonnes.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With this in mind, the ICMA has now released blue finance guidelines to try and drive similar success in that market in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – a member of the World bank Group, United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Asia Development Bank.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Targeted investments are required to save our cities from the climate-related risks flagged by the IPCC. The effects of climate change aren’t limited to distant ice caps. In the mid-term, up to a billion people living in low-lying cities will be at risk from coastal-specific climate hazards, it said. metres respectively.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Finance inflows are urgently required to implement adaption techniques and strategies needed for EMs to withstand the effects of climate change, according to Berit Lindholdt-Lauridsen, Senior Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). . trillion, the Climate Bonds report said. billion. .

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 25, 2019

On current trends the Aichi targets for biodiversity and the 2020 biodiversity targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be missed by a wide margin. Preliminary results are expected in advance of the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2019.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

Noting that the number of court cases being brought against companies on climate-related grounds has recently topped 2,000, the report says some plaintiffs are seeking to recover the costs of climate change itself, or the expense caused by having to adapt to it. Resort to the courts. Vital role of non-execs.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

C higher than in the pre-industrial era, the physical effects of climate change have already started to materialize. ([1], Natural disasters have always occurred, but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense. References: [1] IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. UNEP has created a dynamic data visualization that distils the report findings for non-scientists in all UN languages, plus Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia and Swahili.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It was carried out by the UN-supported worldwide body, Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Generation Foundation, which promotes an equitable world in which climate change is confronted. But there is disagreement and a lack of clarity as to how those interests are defined.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

A 2020 World Bank report noted the “mineral intensity” of the transition to clean energy, pointing out the reliance of several renewable energy sources on technologies requiring higher levels of mineral inputs. “There is an unavoidable dependency on key minerals that requires significant growth in the mining sector.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. This includes the UNEP FI’s latest report comparing assessment and disclosure approaches of different frameworks on nature-related issues.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

UN Climate Change’s NDC synthesis report found they would collectively only deliver a 5.3% C of climate change by 2100. Stronger wording might have been possible, but this was a big step in the right direction,” said Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 19, 2021

In November, governments will convene in Glasgow under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Natural climate solutions for mitigation and adaptation will be high on the agenda, as illustrated by the recent G7 Nature Compact and the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature signed by 88 heads of government.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Kemper said: “The ISSB is bound to play a fundamental role in helping address climate change and nature loss, decreasing systemic risk for the planet, the global economy and the financial system. It will fill a public-interest gap and provide investors with practical and globally applicable parameters.” .

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

, hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050. impressions on Twitter alone for #VYS2021.

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

As well as drivers such as land and seascape changes, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species, the report also points to substantial expansion in the global trade in wild species in recent decades. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference. What has IPBES already told us?

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A 2020 World Bank report estimated the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will need to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 – the equivalent of nearly three billion tonnes – to fulfil sufficient upscaling of clean energy technologies and energy storage solutions. in 2020, and now 7.2% in 2018, to 8.6%

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

In March 2021, the Align project was also launched, led by the United Nation’s Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and funded by the European Commission.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

The panelists built the case for adopting long-term integrated approaches that can help policymakers assess the trade-offs and synergies between short-term policies on agriculture, climate, diets, and biodiversity and mid-century sustainability targets.

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Eco-Business

MAY 24, 2020

For the very first time in its five year history, The Conscious Festival will be accessible as a three-day immersive virtual event on the 12, 13, and 14 June 2020. Whilst we battle one crisis, another still reigns - the race against climate change doesn't slow for anything or anyone. Or how tech or nature-based solutions work?

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Eco-Business

MAY 24, 2020

For the very first time in its five year history, The Conscious Festival will be accessible as a three-day immersive virtual event on the 12, 13, and 14 June 2020. Whilst we battle one crisis, another still reigns - the race against climate change doesn't slow for anything or anyone. Or how tech or nature-based solutions work?

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