Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Later this month, an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee will meet in Senegal to begin work on developing the instrument, which the UN hopes to be in place by 2024. UNEP says 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated per year. Nearly 100 corporations support Roadmap to 2025 , an initiative of the US Plastics Pact.

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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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Remco Fischer, Climate Lead at UNEP FI, underscored the need for governments to submit “more ambitious” NDCs ahead of next year’s COP30 in Brazil, as well as the importance of a whole-of-government policy approach and industrial strategy to drive the low-carbon transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

A major development towards this goal is the Cali Fund for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources where genetic data are stored and shared digitally, often crucial for scientific research and biotechnology development.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The COP28 outcomes on adaptation and loss and damage will aim to advance real action towards building resilience and contributing to sustainable development, including by driving enhanced adaptation finance,” he says. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is bullish on the impact of this year’s conference. But will the outcomes match the rhetoric?

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Developed countries have also been asked to prepare a report on doubling by COP29. UNEP FI estimates the current adaptation finance gap is around US$194-366 billion per year, and positively, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) found last month that adaptation finance had reached an all-time high of US$63 billion, growing 28% from 2019/20.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2025 the EU Taxonomy will reach a milestone, marking the first full year of Taxonomy-alignment reporting for non-financial companies against its environmental objectives, alongside the first reports under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) for the largest EU companies.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2024

By treaty, the ISA is tasked with ensuring the equitable distribution of benefits from DSM, especially to developing countries. A 2024 peer reviewed paper found that 30 major issues in the ISA regulations remain outstanding and that the ISA internal 2025 target date for completion is unrealistic.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Investors must engage with investee firms on improving their research and development efforts to create new solutions to plastic waste pollution, according to a five-year progress report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF). The report, however, also said that business signatories are likely to miss key 2025 goals.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A rapid doubling of funding for nature-based solutions (NbS) by 2025 can achieve a ‘triple win’ for environmental sustainability goals, but must be accompanied by an end to ‘nature-negative’ price-distorting subsidies, a new UN report said. . Currently, the private sector contributes just 17% (US$26 billion) of total investment in NbS.

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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 The increasing proximity of residential development to our right-of-way meant that the infrastructure had become subject to elevated safety standards.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

As climate urgency increases, and countries around the world look to make good on their nationally determined contributions, the more pressure there is across both emerging and developing markets to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, panellists said. . Surpassing US$1 trillion . trillion, the Climate Bonds report said. “The

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The new capital markets targets will come into effect from 1 November 2025, while the rest of guidelines’ updated second version is effective from 22 April. Founded in April 2021 by UNEP FI, the NZBA has 143 members overseeing US$74 trillion in capital. As both thresholds were “comfortably cleared”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The organisations concerned are Dutch bank Rabobank, Mexican development institution FIRA, multilateral funder the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Mauritian private equity group Phatisa, Norwegian chemical company Yara, US asset manager Nuveen Natural Capital and Dutch group Signature Agri Investments. Equivalent to 40 power stations”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Financial institutions need to segment their portfolios into transition, net zero-aligned and stranded assets and develop clear emissions reduction plans in line with recognised 2030 and 2050 targets, said Mark Carney, Founder and Co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Heading for the exit? Greater accountability.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The disparate challenges of different countries will be a running theme, specifically the needs of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), but adaptation will play a lesser role, having been covered in a recent deep dive, as will the failure to agree on carbon markets. Back on track? C in realistic reach.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 4, 2023

But this is “pocket money” compared to the US$44 trillion of global GDP dependent on well-functioning ecosystems, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Climate Finance Unit (CFU). There is also a place for NbS in city areas , with investment opportunities in the development of green roofs and green belts.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

A recent study conducted by European clean transport campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) noted that there is already enough lithium and nickel available to produce 14 million EVs globally this year, even without Russian supplies.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the world experiences record global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions, the latest Emissions Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) found that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5–2.9°C However, it will be near impossible to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

He said the ISSB would seek to redress matters by developing a new conceptual framework for sustainability in finance and business. “We “There has been a tragedy of accounting, where we count many things [in our economy], but not nature – we certainly don’t count the air, or water,” said Faber. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its already 2025 and the GBF includes targets which must be delivered by 2030, Bernadette Fischler Hooper, Head of International Advocacy at the World Wide Fund for Nature UK (WWF UK) , told ESG Investor. Finance is always the most difficult issue to resolve [but it is] really important that all aspects of funding are agreed this week.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

But with World Oceans Day and the Decade of the Ocean’s science goals for sustainable development, a much-needed spotlight has been shone on the challenges urgently requiring prompt action for systemic change to save our oceans. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too. About Acre.

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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. But they still need investment and further development to reach their needed scale.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages. billion people worldwide lack access to water and at the current global water consumption rate the situation will severely worsen. The global population is projected to reach just short of 10 billion by 2050, which would require 55% more water.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2023

They must report on all other facilities by August 2025. Aiden Davy, COO of the ICMM, which developed the standard with members, admitted a significant number are not yet fully compliant.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Several countries led by Saudi Arabia opted to block a reduction in use of fossil fuels in favour of investment in developing carbon capture and storage technology to address rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions. The Standard was developed following the 2019 Brumadinho disaster in Brazil which resulted in the deaths of 272 individuals.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

ISS ESG’s Climate Impact Report provides detailed analyses of Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 emissions, transition and physical risks and climate scenario analysis based on the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

Former UNEP FI head of risk David Carlin calls for a refocus on reducing carbon emissions at COP30 and doubles down on the concept of carbon markets. Carlin, formerly head of risk at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), outlined two ways for the global community to move faster on addressing climate change.

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