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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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COP27 litmus test: Will wealthy countries finally pay for climate change loss and damage?

Corporate Knights

It first entered the climate justice lexicon back in 1992, during negotiations leading to the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) submitted a proposal for a financial mechanism to address loss and damage from sea level rise.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change. As a result, we can expect to see personal, political and business incentives tilt in favor of more action to combat climate change.

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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century

GreenBiz

In an open letter to its clients, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said the bank had been motivated to ramp up its environmental ambition by customer concern about climate change. "We If you want to know what HSBC's stance on climate change really is, look at what they fund, not their fluffy marketing," he added. Sponsored Article.

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Eleven years ago, in 2010, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP15, developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high. Climate Change.

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Fossil fuels phase-out pact fizzled at COP27. What more can be done?

Corporate Knights

The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy. An agreement by the world’s governments to phase out all fossil fuels would have been a welcome progression from last year’s Glasgow climate pact.

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Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments

GreenBiz

Wall Street is driving the climate crisis, and if banks want to be part of the solution, they have to start by being transparent about the extent to which they're currently part of the problem. "We Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Finance & Investing.

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