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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Following “strong feedback” on the connection between climate and nature, Faber said the ISSB plans to immediately advance work on the climate standard, making explicit connections to natural ecosystems and human capital aspects of the net zero transition. . “We

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Climate adaptation finance is also important for risk management of net zero assets, according to the UK’s Green Finance Institute. With adaptation finance flows remaining dangerously low to meet climate goals, has COP28 made a difference? Developed countries have also been asked to prepare a report on doubling by COP29.

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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

MARCH 22, 2023

It is working to address these systemic environmental and social risks and ensure a just transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Phatisa, which operates across sub-Saharan Africa, wants all of its portfolio companies to have drawn up a gender policy complete with “stretching targets to increase female employment across different skill levels by 2025”. Nuveen, with 1.2 Ultimately, a lot of food issues are coming together.”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 4, 2023

As net zero strategies are taking shape and being implemented, governments , investors and companies are enlisting the natural world in the battle to combat the most catastrophic effects of climate change. In December, COP15 underlined the international consensus that limiting global warming to 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Estimated adaptation costs and financing needs in developing countries are between five to ten times greater than recorded 2020 international public adaptation finance flows, according to the 2021 Adaptation Gap report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). .

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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 partnership has developed an aspirational goal of reducing methane emissions by 45% by 2025, relative to a 2015 baseline. Created in November 2020, OGMP 2.0

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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 C above pre-industrial levels. For the 1.5°C C goal, emissions need to be cut by 42%.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speaking at the OECD’s Forum on Green Finance and Investment 2023 , she also noted that there is “no way we can meet net zero goals without nature”. By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages. 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

JULY 28, 2023

The news is disappointing to say the least, given the group’s vital role in the net zero transition and the battle against climate change, with disagreements centring around the intended tripling of renewable energy capacities by 2030, resulting in officials issuing an outcome statement rather than a joint communique.

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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 signatories recognised that rapid action on methane is an essential complement to cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs).

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2023

They must report on all other facilities by August 2025. Members of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) were asked to publish their progress towards conformance with GSTIM by 5 August, for tailings facilities classified as ‘extreme’ or ‘very high’ consequences.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

According to ISS ESG, the new update addresses market demand for a more unified approach to scenario alignment, adding the latest developments in best practices for measuring portfolio alignment, including the recommendations of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

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