Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Garraway notes that COP26 had a notable success on the climate mitigation front, with a strong focus on increasing ambition over the course of two years, despite the postponement caused by the pandemic. C target set by the Paris Agreement before 2040, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis report.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

C temperature increase are moved it could jeopardise investor attempts to reach Paris Agreement targets. Climate change experts have warned 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, and last month BBC analysis found there had been a record number of days for breaches of the 1.5°C trillion in 2023 to US$4.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The role of voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) must be re-evaluated, alongside mandatory standards to maximise their effectiveness, according to speakers at City & Financial Global’s International Carbon Markets Summit 2023. The post VCMs Require Rethink, Scale and Standards, Experts Say appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Finance must scale significantly to support adaptation needs. degrees C.

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Chris Hall

JULY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, 5,260 institutional investors continue to hold bonds and shares in coal companies, according to Urgewald. According to the think tank, 25 members – alongside 65 other asset managers – collectively invested US$417 billion into 15 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies in 2023.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Paris Agreement is a prime example. The 2015 agreement set long-term goals for limiting global temperature rise and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Agreement set a framework on which further multilateral negotiations can build, becoming more ambitious and targeted towards meeting its collective goals.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The recent Global Stocktake Synthesis Report makes it clear that we are dangerously off track to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, emphasizing that ‘’much more action, on all fronts and by all actors, is needed now’. At COP26 in Glasgow, over 100 countries pledged to end deforestation by 2030.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 21, 2024

of the original Amazon biome has been lost, largely due to deforestation, which equates to more than 85 million hectares – an area equivalent to 10% of the size of the US or China. 2023 reports from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) found that the world is severely failing on halting and reversing deforestation. billion), it added.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

At the same time, carbon offsetting has come in for criticism for being a substitute for real climate action, distracting from the challenge of cutting emissions from business and industrial processes in line with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. From Paris to Kunming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

At COP26 a new initiative was launched, contributing to the veritable alphabet soup of abbreviations in the world of sustainability. As the dust settles on the announcements from COP26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact, business leaders, including CFOs are now asking a series of questions about what comes next.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Challenges for assessing loss and damage financing The Paris Agreement discusses loss and damage using the phrase “averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage”. The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, whose functions were agreed upon at COP26 in Glasgow, is gearing to provide only technical assistance on loss and damage.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since a breakthrough at COP20 in Lima , the role of non-state actors – including cities, states, regions, companies, investors and foundations – in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has been a tentative, but long-fought-for journey in support of efforts to keep global average temperatures below 2°C, in line (..)

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

In 2021, biodiversity went up the agenda for policymakers, disclosure bodies and financial institutions, both due to COP26 in November and the first leg UN’s COP15 Biodiversity Conference in October. The Kunming Declaration – the confirming agreement on the GBF – has been compared with the Paris Agreement due to the scope of its ambition.

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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. .

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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 The ‘ 2023 LT-LEDS Synthesis Report ’ said that 97% of assessed LT-LEDS include adaptation-related information.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

A brief statement committed the world’s leading democratic economies to forming a ‘climate club’, to “support the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement by accelerating climate action and increasing ambition”. Membership is open to all countries committed to the full implementation of the Paris Agreement. “We

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Furthermore, expansion to new sectors, faster cuts of the supply of allowances and other climate policies like EU’s fit-for-55 or COP26 adoption of Article 6 are pushing prices up. Offsetting is often hypocrisy, and it is swirling around at #COP26. Offsetting is often a dangerous climate lie. Greta Thunberg.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

This March, Chile was the first sovereign to issue a sustainability-linked bond which adheres to the Paris Agreement on climate change, including a commitment to limiting emissions to 95 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2030 and ensuring renewable energy accounts for 60% of electricity production by 2032. Factoring in fairness.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The EU’s Taxonomy, now live, will only cover economic activities that address climate change until at least January 2023. The US has re-signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and will bring forward new mandatory disclosure rules for public companies in 2022.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) has also received an increased investment of more than US$8 billion (up from US$4 billion at COP26) from over 275 government and non-government partners. TNFD’s framework will then be finalised in September 2023. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Unfortunately, with less than eight years left to halve emissions and current national commitments consistent with a 2.4 o C remains highly uncertain. Turning commitment into action.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The fine print, including who is going to pay into the fund and how much, will be published at COP28 in Dubai, with a transitional committee planning to meet before the end of March 2023. . billion in first-phase financing, provided through grants, concessional loans, investments and risk-sharing instruments over three to five years.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

THE EMPOWERERS Leïla Cantave & Tyjana Connolly 27, 26, Montreal & Calgary Co-founders, Black Eco Bloom After meeting while interning at COP26 in 2021, Leïla Cantave and Tyjana Connolly couldn’t ignore the reality that they saw no other Black youth at the summit. I will never stop pushing to make it a reality.”

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AUGUST 16, 2023

C as possible, experts say. The IPR forecasts that climate policies put in place since COP26 set the world on a 1.8°C The most damning report of all, the IPCC AR6 Synthesis report , confirmed policy action remains insufficient to achieve the commitments made under the Paris Agreement , with the world hurtling towards a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

COP28 has been buffeted by controversy since the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was announced as host, with concerns that the country’s fossil fuel interests would jeopardise the meagre progress made since the Paris Agreement. The European Union (EU) bloc has outlined the importance of ‘scaling up climate ambition to keep the 1.5°C

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up. A new set of “high-integrity carbon credit principles” is expected in 2023.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The formal establishment of GFANZ in 2021 during COP26 sent a clear signal that climate change is a material risk. In 2023, a group of NGOs found that 229 of the worlds largest fossil fuel developers had received finance from 161 (29%) GFANZ members. But GFANZ restructuring can also be seen as an opportunity to increase ambition. [It]

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Deep within the bowels of the conference, negotiators fought over final guidance for a section of the Paris Agreement designed to enshrine international cooperation on carbon markets, named Article 6, originally approved at COP26 in 2021. Bilateral agreements Focus will now turn to Article 6.2, Approval for Article 6.4

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