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Transition methodologies failing to meet Paris Agreement, academics warn

Environmental Finance

investors and regulators for calculating transition pathways are failing to accurately reflect the Paris Agreement goals, with academics warning that most business will consequently fail to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in time. Existing methodologies commonly used by companies.

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Study Confirms Significance of Reducing Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Protect the Future of the Olympic Winter Games

3BL Media

dangerous global warming threshold set out in the agreement. The researchers assessed the future climate reliability of former Olympic Winter Games hosts, as well as potential new host regions that have not been considered in previous academic studies around the future of Olympic hosting.

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SAP at COP28: Navigating Climate Change Together

3BL Media

COP28 aims to be more than just another meeting; it seeks to serve as a significant moment where the international community reflects on and evaluates the progress made since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Above all, it represents a critical self-assessment, examining what actions are required to bridge the gap by 2030.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. But that idea has been dismissed by anyone associated with the COP process who’s heard it. .

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Shareholders Escalate Campaign Pressing Companies to 'Walk Their Talk' on Climate Lobbying

3BL Media

This Global Standard helps companies and investors to assess and ensure that all climate lobbying efforts are directed towards the attainment of the Paris Agreement goals. And only 10% of the focus companies engage in climate lobbying that aligns with the Paris Agreement goals. For example, the U.S

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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts

GreenBiz

Take the example of the Climate Just tool, which combines open data from government and academic sources to visually display how heatwaves, flooding and other extreme climate events will affect disadvantaged and impoverished communities.

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Take Five: Europe’s Green Brigade Takes Shape 

Chris Hall

Denmarks AkademikerPension , a member-owned scheme serving 174,500 teachers and other academic professionals, said it had decided to terminate our relationship with State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), after the US-based index fund giant was given a low ESG rating by staff.