Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to the UN Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the finance sector has ground to make up too, albeit at least some of the responsibility for this also sits with governments. Private sector investment in nature had swollen to US$102 billion by May 2024, an eleven-fold increase on May 2022, apparently.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Alliance extends net zero targets to capital markets activities, as frameworks provide more tailored approach for banks’ transition strategies. The second of the four guidelines requires banks to establish an emissions baseline and annually measure and report the emissions profile of loans and investments. billion from Barclays.

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ESG Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Spanish insurance company MAPFRE announced today that it has decided to discontinue its membership in in the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), marking the latest in a string of major insurers exiting the UN Environment Program (UNEP)-backed climate action-focused industry group. MAPFRE joined the alliance in April 2022.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

trillion globally, according to the World Bank from a mere US$15 billion in 2013. Between 2018 and 2022, 26 blue bond transactions took place , amounting to a total value of US$5 billion, with a 92% compound annual growth rate between those years. As of January 2023, green bonds had raised US$2.5

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

“Our strong new climate risk standard gives regulators powerful new tools to protect consumers and our planet,” said California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara , co-chair of the bipartisan NAIC Climate and Resiliency Task Force that adopted the TCFD standard in 2022. insurance market, which is the largest in the world.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2022, WWF commissioned an independent analysis of the critical minerals needed to support the climate transition. The report forecast that demand for these materials can be reduced by 58% between 2022-50 by utilising new technologies, circular economy models and recycling.

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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 2022 the global waste-management market was valued at US$1.3 It’s very much driven by UN SDGs and the UNEP priorities,” Mollin explained.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 ‘ State of Finance for Nature ’ report suggested that investments in nature-based solutions (NbS) to date have been underwhelming. Worse even: almost US$7 trillion are invested globally each year in activities that have a negative impact on nature – the equivalent to 7% of the global GDP.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The topic was a focus of high-level talks during COP28’s Finance Day with former Brazil premier Dilma Roussef, President of New Development Bank, talking about the importance of deepening local currency capital markets to lower the cost of capital for organisations on the ground.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2050 review and LEDS subsequently enabled the revised emissions targets for 2030 in June 2022. Operating globally as part of the Inogen Alliance delivers sustainable solutions to hundreds of leading industrial and non-industrial clients by helping them improve their environmental performance.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jam open the closing window – The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 was the most sobering of the many pre-COP27 analyses published this week, highlighting the inadequacy of our efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C C course to 2.5°C

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SDSN will be hosting and participating in a variety of events alongside COP27. Below are the details of those events. CEET’s objective is to promote and highlight Egypt’s major theme: “Getting to implementation”, through a first-time in history, engineer-led and co-designed decarbonization forum.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2024

In July, major insurers Hannover Re, Zurich Insurance Group, Vienna Insurance Group, joined Swiss Re in excluding DSM from their underwriting portfolios. The European Investment Bank has also classified DSM projects as unacceptable due to climate and environmental concerns.

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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). trillion in 2022. 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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2022, CDP saw participation from more than 18,600 companies disclosing their data on climate, with nearly 4,000 contributing data on water security, and over 1,000 on forest-related matters.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says: “This vulnerability is driven by the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic growth in the continent. UNEP wants to see more investment diverted towards supporting African countries in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This is the case in Africa.”.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

billion in 2024, as companies transition from venture capital to bank loans and other funding sources ( Net Zero Insights ). Adaptation finance represents just 10% of global climate finance ( UNEP ), while investments in nature-based solutions and biodiversity remain underfunded despite their crucial role in combating climate change.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

US-based Rivian Automotive cancelled its proposed 20% price hike for existing reservations in early 2022 following backlash from customers. Tackling the tailback With governments’ 2035 phase-out deadline edging ever closer, EV transition efforts may stall in the face of rapidly growing global demand.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

As global temperatures rise, escalating climate-related risks, the volume of climate litigation cases has more than doubled in the past five years – from 884 in 2017 to 2,180 in 2022.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

But it does have credit in the bank. “The With rising concerns that the landscape of net zero pledges and transition guidance is becoming overcrowded, the UNFCCC will be expected to prove the validity and need for its proposed framework over the coming months.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The series will continue in the first months of 2022 for Central Asia, Europe and Middle East (January 18th), Africa (March 10th), and the Americas (April 21st). Further work is planned in 2022 on financing the SDGs in SIDS. The work on SDG and SIDS was featured in op-eds and policy briefs.

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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.

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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. But investors choosing the path of inaction while they wait for relevant and comparable data from investee companies may be waiting a while.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

SDSN is proud to have contributed to Chapter 6 "Transforming food systems" of UNEP's 2022 Emissions Gap Report thanks to our FABLE Consortium scientific director Aline Mosnier. Mobilize central banks: central banks are increasingly interested in addressing the climate crisis, but more concrete action on regulations is needed.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Just prior to COP26, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) to improve the accuracy and public transparency of human-caused methane emissions. The first meeting is scheduled for November 2022. Delivering on the pledge could reduce warming by at least 0.2?C

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

A 2022 report from the World Bank estimated that the global health cost of mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution in 2019 was $8.1 Source: The first global assessment of air quality legislation, UNEP. World Bank. trillion, equivalent to 6.1 European Environment Agency.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, the question of where the money would come from remained open as the gavel went down in 2022. Despite developing countries having strongly pushed back on the US proposals that the World Bank should manage the fund, it was agreed that the World Bank will first administer the fund, but that this will be on a temporary basis.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Leading US banks and insurers will face votes at their upcoming AGMs asking for policies aligned with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) net zero roadmap , after challenges to shareholder resolutions were rejected. . Regulator refuses requests for no-action relief against shareholder resolutions calling for IEA alignment. .

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