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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OCTOBER 28, 2022

SDSN is proud to have contributed to Chapter 6 "Transforming food systems" of UNEP's 2022 Emissions Gap Report thanks to our FABLE Consortium scientific director Aline Mosnier. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than one per cent, off projected global emissions in 2030. C in place. C in place. C in place. C over the century.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Around 2% of private sector finance is currently going to climate adaptation investments – the resilience of infrastructure, protection of forests, dealing with deforestation, investing in water management – which of course isn’t enough,” said Mohieldin, who is also UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

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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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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 coalition aims to go further by 2030, reducing emissions by 60% to 75%. Why is reducing methane emissions so important to climate change mitigation?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

C by 2100, but only “urgent system-wide transformation” can deliver needed GHG emission cuts by 2030. In an accompanying commentary , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said: “I urge every investor, public and private, to put their capital towards a net zero world. C course to 2.5°C

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

New investment could double the number of PV manufacturing jobs to a million by 2030, it added. UNEP FI Executive Director Inger Andersen called on the intergovernmental body to support the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and deliver “robust underpinnings for businesses” to help understand nature risks and dependencies.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. Developed countries have also been asked to prepare a report on doubling by COP29.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Countries including Germany and Australia made new commitments to protect nature, while many others backed efforts – expected to be enshrined in the GBF – to protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030.

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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. Given that we have such a limited window for action, a science-led net zero strategy requires a very steep downward trajectory in emissions to halve them by 2030.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

In the wake of COP26, and with the 27 th edition in sight, the latest IPCC assessment reports [1,2] starkly highlight the risks we are facing if we fail to curb greenhouse gases emissions. Almost all countries might be faced with negative impacts, some as early as 2030 [7]. With global surface temperatures already 1.1°C 1], [3], [4]).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Six months on from COP26’s Global Methane Pledge, the quick wins needed to achieve 2030 targets pose steep challenges. At COP26, 112 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge , an initiative designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030. Delivering on the pledge could reduce warming by at least 0.2?C

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Chris Hall

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 C temperature pathway. Last year, the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) ‘ Emissions Gap Report ’ said climate policies enacted worldwide could result in 2.8°C C of global warming by 2100 – and between 2.4-2.6°C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A UN carbon market could theoretically be a highly cost-effective mechanism that could halve the cost of meeting countries’ climate targets, saving them US$250 billion by 2030. Ahead of COP28, UNEP released its flagship adaptation report, finding that the current “adaptation finance gap” sits at about US$194 – 366 billion per year.

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