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Canada on the defensive as global pressure mounts to phase out fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

The 2023 Production Gap Report , released by UNEP, the Stockholm Environment Institute and other partners, found that 19 leading energy-producing countries are planning to extract twice as much fossil fuel supply in 2030 as the maximum that can be burned to keep the world on a 1.5°C

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Could the video game industry be key to levelling up on climate action?

Corporate Knights

Many of the large tech companies that manufacture games and consoles, such as Microsoft, Apple and Google, have committed to reaching net-zero by 2030. So much so that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognized the power of video games as a communications tool to spread environmental messages.

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The (not so) green recovery: New report warns world is failing to 'build back better'

GreenBiz

The conclusions reached by UNEP and the University of Oxford match those of an ongoing series of economic reports by Vivid Economics and Finance for Biodiversity, which has been tracking the "greenness" of different countries' recovery packages since the outbreak of the pandemic. Of the $14.6

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Bloomberg Launches New Tool to Assess Company Impact on SDGs

ESG Today

The UN SDGs refer to the 17 categories of goals adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the aim to protect the planet and improve the quality of life globally. Bloomberg said that it is the first data provider to integrate the UNEP FI Sector Impact framework into its data offerings.

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Quadrupling of restoration finance needed by 2030, warns UNEP

Environmental Finance

Restoration finance remains "relatively modest" amongst the private sector, a new report by the UN Environment Programme, as it called for a quadrupling of flows by 2030.

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At COP27, Investors, Companies, and Policymakers Must Accelerate Urgent Action on the Climate and Water Crises To Cut Emissions in Half by 2030

3BL Media

For the next seven years, we must marshal our collective forces and bolster commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 to avoid more irreversible effects of this growing crisis. Co-hosted by AIGCC, CDP, Ceres, IGCC, IIGCC, PRI and UNEP FI. DESCRIPTION: COP27 provides a critical moment to build upon historic U.S.

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Capital Flows not Supporting Nature Commitments

Chris Hall

“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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