Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Research shows that directing finance towards nature-related themes and nature-based solutions could provide around a third of the climate mitigation needed to reach the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. This is a collaboration between three Brazilian banks, Bradesco, Itaú Unibanco, and Santander Brasil.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

billion) per year that will have to come from private investment, according to an Environment Bank white paper. “If The NFU considers it a threat to “treasured cultural landscapes” according to a consultation document submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. A government commitment of 2.4 billion pounds ($3.1

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 12, 2023

of the Paris Agreement will realise the potential of carbon markets globally, but progress remains slow. For the latter, the World Bank intends to “unlock the most critical bottlenecks”, including efforts to bring clarity to carbon markets to build trust. Finalisation of Article 6.2,

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . Most of those banks are members of the UN-convened net-zero banking group. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle. At the end of its formal mandate, the taskforce plans to publish a document setting out a forward pathway.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 16, 2023

The need for substantially higher funding for the SDGs has been widely documented, by the SDSN, the IMF, and others. Financing gaps of $1-4 trillion per year (1-4% of world output) block the achievement of the SDGs, Paris Agreement, Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, and other global goals in the developing world.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Established under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement , the Global Stocktake is designed “to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of [the Paris] Agreement and its long-term goals. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

As the slipping of climate targets continues, it’s becoming increasingly clear that cutting emissions won’t be enough to keep global temperature increases below the 2ºC target enshrined by the 2015 Paris agreement. Is it happening?

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The World Bank estimates that the annual production of municipal solid waste is expected to grow to 3.4 And in addition to climate mitigation, there are a myriad of documented agricultural benefits of composting.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. That’s a good outcome for a consensus document.” The official verdict was clear.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

As an increasing number of countries finalize their national adaptation plan documents (NAPs) and make more detailed, ambitious commitments in the adaptation components of their NDCs, the global focus is shifting from planning to implementation — and not a moment too soon. Scale up support for adaptation. Established under Article 7.1

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

Carmen Nuzzo , Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), told ESG Investor that ASCOR will allow investors to track sovereigns’ efforts toward their net zero targets and the national determined contributions (NDCs) to which they’ve committed by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.    This week, world leaders attempted to update the post-war global financial architecture to better support the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On 9 September, in Brussels, former European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi presented his report on the ‘The Future of European Competitiveness’. The document outlines the challenges that EU businesses face in being both productive and environmentally-friendly.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Coal-fired power plants in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: Asian Development Bank , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license ).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The idea to utilise voluntary markets is “a good one”, as it’s “part of the principle of ‘cooperative action’ enshrined in the Paris Agreement,” Guy Turner, CEO of specialist data, analysis and advisory firm Trove Research, tells ESG Investor. . “It How can the credibility and effectiveness of the ETA be measured?

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2023

The research by Bloomberg NEF showed that 17 countries maintained or improved their net-zero policy ratings, though the group as a whole are still falling behind on the goals of the Paris Agreement. The US has risen up the rankings thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

“Since then, the impact of this case on climate policy has been clear,” said Higham, adding that references to the Urgenda case have become commonplace in the Dutch parliament, as well as in various policy documents.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“The European Union offer would include a commitment to immediately establish a new loss and damage response fund with details worked out over the next year as well as a commitment to examine debt and reform the mulitlateral development banks,” the news agency writes. No text to negotiate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Zou explained as follows: “Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. The case for divestment is persuasive.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 15, 2025

As fossil fuel companies water down their climate commitments, and banks cast doubt on global warming targets, one key climate-action organization is holding firm. climate target, as set out by the Paris Agreement. That is why in the Paris Agreement we have agreed internationally to aim for 1.5

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2025

Canadian and some other banks leaving the NZBA, as political pressure, particularly in the U.S., After rapidly expanding from 43 banks at launch in 2021 to over 140 banks representing $74 trillion in 2024, members of the group have come under significant pressure, particularly from Republican politicians in the U.S.,

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. Businesses, banks, and investors. Both new and existing coal plants were in retreat in 2021.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As widely expected, on his first day back in the White House, he signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and moved to scrap oil and gas exploration restrictions. This would better inform central banks, commercial banks and insurers and drive refined and more appropriate actions.

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