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

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Nexus noted – The global focus on one sub-clause of the official response to the first Global Stocktake obscured other potentially significant elements of the 21-page agreement, not least its strong acknowledgement of the climate-nature nexus.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. As an example, heavy GHG emitters countries as China pledged for net-zero emissions by 2060, and the Paris Agreement became one of the issues driving voters to vote in the US presidential election.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

Leaders of leading industrial nations at the Japan-hosted G7 summit in Hiroshima made a series of announcements in support of their Paris Agreement commitments to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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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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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”. The new ETS2 will cover buildings and road transport sectors from 2024.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Also as at COP26, some developing countries are reluctant to commit too quickly to fossil fuel phase out , critical to efforts to ‘ keep 1.5°C C alive ’, especially when developed countries are still failing to deliver on climate finance pledges to support this energy transition , described in the new text as a “grave concern”.

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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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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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