Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 5, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issues a warning that around 2.5 billion people worldwide could face water scarcity by 2025. In a recent tragic incident, approximately 100 elephants in Africa perished due to inadequate access to water.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

” One of the main outcomes of the Congress was the commitment to create a National Biogas Roadmap, to be developed by COP30, due to take place place in Belém (Pará) in 2025.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2022

For example, France has become the first country to introduce a policy requiring all new household washing machines to have filters to trap microplastic particles by 2025. Innovation plays a major part and one company, Humblebee, has taken a novel approach to search for an alternative solution.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

As reported by the UN, Indigenous people own, occupy or use up to 22% of the global land area.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Global Commitment, co-launched in 2018 by the EMF and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), sets targets for businesses to reduce plastic waste and pollution by 2025. The report, however, also said that business signatories are likely to miss key 2025 goals.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2024

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. Her term begins in January 2025. The business history of leading DSM companies also raises concerns.

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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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A paper from UNEP published late last year stated that developing nations’ “estimated annual adaptation costs/needs are in the range of US$160–340 billion by 2030 and US$315–565 billion by 2050”. Furthermore, they predicted that financing needs were “likely far higher if adaptation and demand-side costs are included”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

World Bank President Ajay Banga announced a commitment to devote 45% of its annual finance to climate by 2025. 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 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 5, 2023

By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages. It also pointed out that rising temperatures are disrupting precipitation patterns and the “entire water cycle”. Today, as many as 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water and at the current global water consumption rate the situation will severely worsen.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Investments into nature-based solutions should more than double to US$384 billion per year by 2025, it says. Public expenditure needs to be reformed to redirect finance flows, said a new report by the environmental watchdog.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Falling short – This week, Anglo-American miner Rio Tinto announced that it is likely to miss its 2025 decarbonisation target, representing a 15% reduction in group emissions, unless it turns to its “ last resort ” of buying carbon credits. The post Take Five: Sticking Point appeared first on ESG Investor.

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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

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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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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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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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Carney was responding to questions from Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), about his expectations from members of alliances under the GFANZ umbrella which have not set decarbonisation targets for 2025. Heading for the exit?

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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 reason for cautious optimism in 2023, as the conditions emerge to propel NbS up the agendas of stakeholders globally.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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). That’s something that the markets and the investors need to navigate,” says UNEP FI’s Fischer. C in realistic reach.

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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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The participation of the private finance sector in discussions finalising the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was welcomed by both Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Elizabeth Mrema, TNFD Co-Chair and Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. . “We

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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

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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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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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

According to ISS ESG, the Scenario Alignment section of their Climate Impact Report can now be customized by users for a selection of models, such as those provided by the IEA, NGFS, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) One Earth Climate Model, with users able to select either a standard or advanced package, incorporating either two (..)

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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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