Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The report is released before representatives of 193 nations convene in Nairobi for the resumed 5th session of the UN Environment Assembly ( UNEA-5.2 ), between 28 February and 2 March, 2022. Wildfires and climate change are mutually exacerbating. Wildfires disproportionately affect the world’s poorest nations.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Published today, GRI 12: Coal Sector 2022 is the authoritative, internationally applicable standard for coal organizations to communicate their impacts on the economy, environment and people. The working group emphasized climate change as the most critical issue for the sector, requiring enhanced disclosure.

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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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AUGUST 22, 2024

I believe in sport’s ability to change minds and touch hearts. Launched in 2022, Sports for Nature is a joint initiative by the IUCN, the IOC, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy. We need to be able to leverage that.”

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report found that as a global society we still do not have a credible pathway to achieve our common goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C. By contrast, global GHG emissions are projected to hit a record high in 2022. Passionate about science, SBTi and addressing climate change.

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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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 Emissions Gap Report – aptly titled ‘Broken Record’ – clearly states that the world is a long way from limiting global warming to 1.5°C Adaptation bonds are among the potential vehicles for private investment, but policy action is still needed at COP28.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

Highlights from Day 2 of The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit 2022. The Main Plenary stage served as a forum for the kinds of cross-sector conversations that are necessary to solve complex problems like climate change and food insecurity. KEYWORDS: The Consumer Goods Forum, The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“This ambition is in good shape as the company secured a partnership with Planet in early 2022, adding high-quality, daily refresh to its available data sets,” said a press release.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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

MARCH 4, 2022

The world cannot afford to wait for “perfection” in ESG disclosure and measurement practices, said James Alexander, Chief Executive Officer of sustainable finance forum UKSIF, at Chatham House’s Responsible Business 2022 conference in London on Thursday. UNEP FI works with financial industry frameworks to set norms, or pre-standards.

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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

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

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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With adaptation finance flows remaining dangerously low to meet climate goals, has COP28 made a difference? Bureaucratic barriers The failure in scaling blended finance in a meaningful way is well known – flows are decreasing with volumes falling to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the latest Convergence report. billion fund.

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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

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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

COP27 must boost Africa’s adaptation to the physical risks of climate change, says Amal-Lee Amin, Head of Climate Change at British International Investment. Africa contributes less than 3% to global emissions but is the most vulnerable continent in the world to the negative impacts form climate change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As climate change accelerates, the need to make buildings more sustainable, energy-efficient, and healthier has never been clearer. While many climate tech solutions focus on reducing outdoor emissions, there’s a growing recognition that indoor air quality is also a growing issue.

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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This rebranding signals a sharpened focus on technologies and solutions that regenerate rather than deplete and that strengthen resilience, particularly for communities most impacted by climate change. Additionally, climate mitigation and decarbonization technologies still struggle to attract the necessary capital to scale solutions.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

But successful cases can catalyse substantial advancements in climate change policy, said Higham, citing the Urgenda Foundation v The State of the Netherlands case.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Last week over 5,600 delegates from 190 countries gathered at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi for the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6). In just six years, signatories are expected to have put in place actions to deliver the GBF’s 23 global targets for urgent action.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 28, 2023

Within its leading indicators approach, the TNFD has established ‘core global’ and ‘core sector’ disclosure metrics. Like the TCFD, the TNFD is developing a global framework for risk management and disclosure, not a standard.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

As negotiations unfolded at the Bonn Climate Change Conference earlier this month, the politicisation of an existential and global threat was clear to see. What made negotiators’ incremental progress even more frustrating was that the squabbling was underpinned by the realities of a rapidly warming planet.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Standardising nature data Non-profit disclosure platform CDP has declared its intent to align with the TNFD framework, signalling a significant expansion of its purview, which previously focused on climate, deforestation, and water security, but is broadening to encompass biodiversity and plastic pollution.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

trillion AUM. “The alliance is doing exactly what it set out to do ,” Remco Fischer, Climate Lead at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), told ESG Investor. in 2022 compared to the previous year.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C We quickly went from the positivity of COP26 into 2022, which has presented a range of challenges for us all,” said Neil Brown, head of equities at GIB Asset Management. In undeniably tough conditions across 2022, a huge amount has been done.

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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. 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

JANUARY 22, 2025

Alongside climate change and pollution, overfishing is one of the biggest threats to our oceans yet the majority of the population is unaware of its meaning and implications. In 2022, it adopted the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies , marking a significant step towards SDG 14.6

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

November 7, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Keysight Technologies, Inc. NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the winners of the Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022. on October 29, 2022. on October 29, 2022. “It

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In fact, more than 90% of materials are either wasted, lost or remain unavailable for reuse for years as they are locked into long-lasting stock such as buildings and machinery, the report added. “It’s clear that we’re still going to need to mine minerals as part of an ongoing solution to climate change and addressing some of the significant (..)

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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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