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AllianceBernstein: Reflections on COP28: Opportunities Amid Challenges

3BL Media

After years of negotiation, the fund, which will launch in 2024, received pledges of more than US$700 million from countries at the event. This is well below the US$387 billion a year that developing countries need, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Adaptation Gap Report. MDBs provided about US$5.5

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Eliminating Plastic Pollution, Reflections From Tracey Campbell

3BL Media

A few weeks ago, experts from the LyondellBasell Government Relations team and I had the privilege of attending key events related to the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 2) on Plastic Pollution in Paris.

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Mining Sector Needs “Social Compass”

Chris Hall

The investor-led initiative will be advised by UNEP and is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Cape Town and the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) at the UNFCCC Africa Climate Week 2023

Sustainable Development Network

The CEET is grateful to the Council’s Steering Committee members, Gajanana Hegde, Team Leader, Regulatory Development (Energy), UNFCCC, and Chibulu Luo, Programme Manager, Sustainable Energy Hub, UNDP, for their support in the organization of this event.

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Ancient Arctic Organisms Key Threat in Global ‘Polycrisis’

Chris Hall

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have now warned in a new report that many more “reservoirs of ancient, mostly uncharacterised microorganisms and viruses” could be lurking under the tundra – which is warming at four times the global average. Some of the identified risks are, unsurprisingly, environmental.

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Take Five: Call of Nature

Chris Hall

According to the UN Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the finance sector has ground to make up too, albeit at least some of the responsibility for this also sits with governments. Private sector investment in nature had swollen to US$102 billion by May 2024, an eleven-fold increase on May 2022, apparently.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects.