Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Investors and companies are increasingly setting climate and nature targets, but once those are in place, they need to be thinking more about how to redirect capital [in line with these goals],” Ivo Mulder , Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told ESG Investor. trillion in 2022.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2023

Speaking at ESG Investor’s inaugural Stewardship Summit, UNEP FI’s Carlin says transition finance flows to developing economies are too low to meet net zero targets. The post New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UN Climate Risk Chief appeared first on ESG Investor.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released the Global Production Gap Report on 8 November 2023. Governments in aggregate are planning to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. For example, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance is not led by sustainability teams, it’s typically CIOs who are driving it.”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2023

Although minerals are critical to a net zero future, ongoing environmental and social abuses cannot be ignored, urges Brumadinho community representative.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

The recent IEA report and UNEP gap report on net zero pathways have noted how difficult it will be to achieve the 1.5°C The previous IEA net zero report included various assumptions, including an increase in land use for bio-energy crops. A credible 1.5°C C climate goal. C goal within sight.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A letter from 534 financial institutions representing US$29 trillion in assets under management called for policy action in five areas to accelerate private sector investment in a “ just transition to a climate-resilient, nature-positive, net-zero economy”.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Renewable energy and nuclear power featured in high-level announcements, with heads of state and governments pledging to triple renewables capacity to at least 11,000 gigawatts by 2030, and to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency from 2% to 4% annually in the same time frame.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

The global economy relies on the health of the ocean, says Dennis Fritsch, Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy Finance at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). UNEP FI is working towards integrating the use of sustainable finance practices in support of ocean health by the global financial community.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Transition plans should demonstrate alignment with 2030 decarbonisation targets, says UN Climate Envoy. In addition, institutions should have interim decarbonisation targets that are “consistent” with the 2030 target, set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , of reducing CO2 emissions by around 45% from 2010 levels.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For those of us in the building industry, it means a steadfast urgency to accelerate our commitment to drive the total carbon of buildings to zero. The latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report found that as a global society we still do not have a credible pathway to achieve our common goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The future of his Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero was in question after media reports that major US banks were threatening to quit rather than accept legal risks that might arise from tougher membership rules. But not his attitude to business.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Last year, Volkswagen similarly announced delays to its EV ambitions, with its flagship EV project Trinity being pushed back from 2026 to 2030 and putting plans for a new European battery plant on hold. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As of 1 July 2020, the number of cases had nearly doubled, with at least 1,550 climate change cases filed in 38 countries, according to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report. In 2017, there were 884 cases brought in 24 countries. As of January 2022, 1,853 cases have been reported. Italy is about to hear its first climate-related case.

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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

MAY 13, 2022

Stuart Lemmon, Global Managing Director for the Net Zero Transformation Practice at EcoAct, an Atos company, outlines the elements of a credible corporate climate strategy and explains why we should embrace scrutiny and work collectively on the path to net zero. o C remains highly uncertain. Navigating without a road map.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A failure of carbon markets now would slow humanity’s path to net zero emissions and derail financial innovation in other ecosystem services, María Mendiluce writes. gigatons of climate mitigation annually by 2030. This article first appeared in EuroNews. C in reach. Nature-based solutions can deliver up to 12.5

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The report also estimates that NbS investment flows should rise to US$484 billion per annum by 2030. . Because of their multiple benefits, investments in NbS would represent “good value for money” at a time of global macroeconomic uncertainty, said Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). .

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

New research from climate think tanks suggests that “immediate, transformational changes” across every sector are needed by 2030. Efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C C are far behind the “pace and scale” required, with experts calling for policymakers to close the global gap in climate action at COP28 later this month.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The ‘ Nature Target Setting Framework for Asset Managers and Asset Owners ’ seeks to provide guidance to investors in establishing targets and directing financial resources in line with the mission of the GBF, aiming to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

€275 billion of annual investment in EU energy efficiency renovations will be needed by 2030. . C of global warming, 50% of all existing buildings need to be net zero by 2040, increasing to 85% by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. In order for the real estate sector to decarbonise in line with 1.5°C

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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.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Each company has its own goals, to be achieved between now and 2030. Rabobank is planning to support millions of smallholder farmers to move to agro-forestry, with the trees thus planted sequestering 150 megatons of CO2 by 2030, “equivalent to the annual emissions of 40 coal-fired power stations”. Nuveen, with 1.2

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

This expert group includes representatives from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, standard setters EITI and SASB, and investment institutions FTSE Russell and S&P Global. ISS ESG Issuer Level Net Zero Alignment Data can be used to identify positive and negative performing companies against individual climate related metrics.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Despite the precariousness of the pathway to net zero, COP26 generated a renewed sense of urgency and optimism as to how to support emerging markets and deal with heavy greenhouse gas emitters. Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

The standard was developed after the failure of a tailings facility at Brumadinho, Brazil in 2019, causing 272 deaths, through an independent process convened by ICMM, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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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 GtCO 2e , about 9% of 2022 emissions, annually by 2030, compared with the initial NDCs.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects. Given the rising stakes to halve emissions in the coming eight years by 2030, there is no time for incremental change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“This year showed that climate change is an immediate direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. Indirect building sector emissions will have to drop through a reduction of 60 per cent in power generation emissions.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. The first-ever mention of “transitioning away from fossil fuels” in COP final text was regarded as a major milestone on the path to net zero, even by those who acknowledged its multiple caveats.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

The EU Commission’s 2030 Climate Target Plan has raised the bloc’s ambition on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to at least 55% below 1990 levels by 2030 by setting a more comprehensive and cost-effective path to achieving climate neutrality by 2050.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Despite this trend, commentators like Dan Carlin, UNEP FI’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Program Lead, have made the case for further engagement with the fossil fuel industry. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5

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