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. Read more about the true cost of meat here.

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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. UNEP FI is going to play a big role in in the year ahead in the piloting programmes to work out what this will look like.”. Innovative finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

It has been written by a team of 40 international experts from 17 countries led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the University of Edinburgh, and is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. It is a now problem,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. “To per cent in 2020. per cent off predicted annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, compared to the previous round of commitments.

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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 disproportionately affect the world’s poorest nations.

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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. Across the board, an enormous need for greater standardisation and operationalisation of net zero targets is needed.”.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Says Neil Burgess, Chief Scientist at UNEP-WCMC: “ Nature Map is a crucial new tool that can help to guide policies that tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together. 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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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Packaging makes up around one third of the municipal waste generated annually in the European Union and the US, says WBCSD, with the cost of adverse environmental effects caused by plastic packaging valued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at around at US$40 billion. UNEP says 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated per year.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) was mandated by the European Commission in June 2020 to prepare for new EU sustainability reporting standards, and in November 2022, EFRAG submitted its final ESRS draft.

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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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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Developed with inputs from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and UN Act Now, Climate Pledges surfaces nine expert-backed solutions to help people understand the most impactful actions they can take within their communities.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Normal 0 false false false FR X-NONE AR-SA On February 6th, 2020, UNEP-WCMC organized Nature Map Webinar: Mapping nature and its benefits to jointly address biodiversity loss and climate change with the participation of all scientists involved in Nature Map, who introduced the work on global priorities for habitat conservation and restoration and the (..)

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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. The European Court of Human Rights made headlines in 2020 when it communicated about its first climate change case.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The US$100 billion of annual climate-focused financing for developing countries from 2020 onward – a 2009 promise that remains intangible – is another. Insufficient focus on adaptation A key emerging area is the perception that climate adaptation is not receiving the focus it needs compared with mitigation.

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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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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

In 2020, Laura Zizzo, a climate change pioneer known for her integrated legal and consulting leadership, joined forces with proven technology entrepreneur Jeremy Greven to create Manifest Climate. EDITOR’S NOTE The analysis results along with insights from insurance regulators and other stakeholders will be presented in a webinar at 2 p.m.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The EU Taxonomy was among the first such tools, with its governing Regulation entering into force on 12 July 2020. The roadmap has the support of the International Financial Corporation, the Sustainable Banking and Financial Network, the International Platform for Sustainable Finance, the United Nations Development Programme and UNEP FI.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

planets to provide the resources needed to produce goods and absorb waste (Global Footprint Network 2020). Negotiations reached their peak with different priorities of the developing and developed countries addressing ambitious targets to take climate action and limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees celsius.

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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. These preliminary findings will undergo extensive consultations in the run-up to the 2020 Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in China.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Analysis from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) concludes that a 45% reduction in global methane emissions by 2030 is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Created in November 2020, OGMP 2.0 In addition to being a potent GHG, methane is the primary contributor to ground-level ozone.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Estimated adaptation costs and financing needs in developing countries are between five to ten times greater than recorded 2020 international public adaptation finance flows, according to the 2021 Adaptation Gap report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). . trillion, the Climate Bonds report said. billion. .

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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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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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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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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

metres compared to 2020 levels, the number of people affected will increase by 20%. Extreme climate-related events can reduce a property’s value by between 5-20%, according to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). If the global mean sea level rises by 0.15 This will double and triple if sea levels rise by 0.75

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The arrival of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was announced as early as July 2020. The World Economic Forum estimated its monetary value in 2018 to be equivalent to an estimated US$125 trillion worth of economic, natural and social capital. What is the TNFD?

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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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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). That’s something that the markets and the investors need to navigate,” says UNEP FI’s Fischer. C in realistic reach.

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Sustainability Update

MAY 28, 2024

It represents not only a lost opportunity to feed food-insecure people but also a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – an estimated 8 -10% of total global emissions , according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , as well as 58% of all landfill methane emissions , according to the EPA.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report , more than 1,500 cases had been filed in 38 countries by July 2020. The number of cases is widely recognised as having doubled since 2015.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

General Motors has done the same, taking an equity stake in an Australian mining company sourcing nickel and cobalt.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Agora’s recommendations, which include installation of new gas boilers and scaling up of heat pump installation, would reduce EU buildings’ existing fossil gas use by 480 terawatts an hour (TWh) by 2027 compared to 2020 levels of 1,400TWh. . How do they best ensure improvements?” Hunziker said. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

In 2020 alone, global losses from natural disasters were estimated at US$210 billion, with over US$10 billion in losses each from wildfires in California, floods in China, and cyclone Amphan in India [5]. The natural disaster figures for 2020. ( [link]. Adaptation Gap Report 2020. With global surface temperatures already 1.1°C

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The share of investments managed via sustainable strategies rose by 15%, accounting for more than a third (36%) of global AUM, according to the Global Sustainable Investment Review 2020, published last year. trillion).

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 19, 2021

To implement post-2020 biodiversity strategies such as the Global Biodiversity Framework, policymakers and governments need clarity on where resources and conservation management could bring the greatest potential benefits to biodiversity.

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