Strategic Sustainability Consulting

JULY 13, 2022

One prominent flaw of current ESG ratings is that methodologies and definitions vary between rating agencies. We are hopeful that the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at the United Nations COP26 late last year will unify ESG standards.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Karen Ellis, Chief Economist at WWF-UK, talks about the convergence of climate and nature and the emergence of industry sector transition pathways. At COP26 in Glasgow, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced plans for the UK to become the world’s first net zero-aligned financial centre.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

The devastation yields an opportunity where he and other scientists can devise strategies to bring forests back and, at the same time make them more resistant to climate change. Trees are a critical buffer against climate change. Complications of climate change. These are losses the world can’t afford.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

Building on a long-held interest in the impact of climate change on the financial sector, Gosling has conducted much work in the area, including joint research with the UK Investment Forum. “In And in that, he includes asset owners. And then – what are the costs and risks to my beneficiaries incurred through taking that action?”

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that even if the world rapidly decarbonises, greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and current emissions trends will make some significant climate impacts unavoidable through 2040. Since 2000 , over four billion lives have been impacted and US$2.9

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

UK industry body sets out plan for government ambition to align with Climate Change Committee recommendations. It sets out a plan to deliver the 40GW of operational capacity needed by the end of the decade for the UK to remain on track for a net zero carbon economy, according to the Climate Change Committee.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is the opinion of Nigel Topping who served as UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion at the COP26 organized by the UK. societies – will have to change to truly become carbon neutral in the next two decades. So one could say he knows what he is talking about. Indeed, our entire systems -ie.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a result, investors have increasingly relied on unregulated ratings firms and data providers to assess, among other ESG factors, the impact of climate change on a company as well as the company’s own impact on the environment. Third, information underpinning ratings and data products should be reliable and accurate.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s essential that decision-makers make progress across six key tasks to advance future international climate action and support: Create a financing mechanism for addressing loss and damage. If countries fail to agree to this agenda item, proceedings at the climate summit could derail right from the start. degrees C.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow. A carbon price is key,” he said.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

It seems unlikely that anyone involved in ESG investing would have missed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III report published at the beginning of the week. The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) whose asset owners and managers have a combined AUM of over US$35.8 he asked.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this explainer, we attempt to look at the scope of fossil fuel subsidies, their impact on investors and other stakeholders, and the likelihood of reform in light of the Glasgow Climate Pact’s phase-out commitment. Much depends on definitions, as these vary widely. This would also raise revenues worth 3.8% degrees Celsius.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Climate change, environmental stewardship, these are very big systemic problems and issues to tackle. But then Typhoon Yolanda or Haiyan hit the Philippines, and that was when climate change was no longer just this distant issue in the near future. So if you can put your money where your mouth is, definitely do that.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Governments were encouraged to ensure corporates publish decision-useful information on their exposure to physical climate-related risks to help investors to determine the adaptive capacity of companies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

Regulatory guidance for investors and corporates is gaining momentum but still lags climate-focused frameworks. In 2021, biodiversity went up the agenda for policymakers, disclosure bodies and financial institutions, both due to COP26 in November and the first leg UN’s COP15 Biodiversity Conference in October.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Despite growing calls for private capital to tackle the climate crisis, there has been a “significant decline” in the scaling of climate-focused blended finance transactions, according to global network Convergence. . It noted that climate-oriented blended finance transactions are in decline, from US$36.5

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. During COP26, Lord Goldsmith admitted the UK had ‘real problems’ with burning wood for electricity.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

With the consultation periods for both the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) climate and general sustainability standards and the European sustainability reporting standards (ESRSs) now closed, this explainer touches on the sticking points which will need to be smoothed out ahead of their being finalised later this year. .

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 24, 2022

20 countries’ combined experiences have helped identify solutions to both conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change, while meeting food security goals. Biodiversity loss: less noticeable, but just as urgent as climate change Hi Sarah! The recent IPCC Climate Report flagged our progress – it is too slow.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

This builds onto the UK’s existing national commitments, such as the Glasgow Climate Pact from COP26, promising the 2020s to be a decade of action. Corporate climate best practice has largely been led by voluntary actions and non-legislative frameworks and drivers. o C remains highly uncertain. C trajectory.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To support emerging market climate transitions, developed countries and private investors are drawing up an ambitious blueprint, but is it working?

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They are also preparing for the impact of the 26 th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Sustainable Round Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They are also preparing for the impact of the 26 th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26. Investors’ experience with climate-related risks are instructive, but only to a degree. It’s a necessity if we’re going to achieve climate targets to extend our focus to biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

In a series of tweets , Lee also aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) statement of an "urgent need to improve the consistency, comparability, and reliability of sustainability reporting, with an initial focus on climate change-related risks and opportunities."

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

An analysis published last year by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change said China’s ETS would need to expand rapidly to cover other parts of the economy to keep the country on track to achieve net zero by 2060. The impacts of climate change on biodiversity are yet to be evaluated.”. billion in 2021.

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Sustainable Round Table

MARCH 1, 2023

To answer that question, in the final days of COP27, I published Dignity First Climate Leadership. link] UNICEF, “One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis – UNICEF,” August 19, 2021.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A statement from 150 global financial institutions with US$24 trillion in AUM backed a “robust” GBF that provided a clear mandate for the alignment of financial flows, supported the disclosure of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies, and outlined clear targets and definitions to enable the development of nature-positive projects.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis. Next Hydrogen.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. 3 Meanwhile, UNICEF had recently reported that more than a billion children currently faced “deadly” threats from human-caused climate breakdown.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vicki Bakshi, Climate Strategist at Columbia Threadneedle, outlines the key items on the agenda in Dubai and the predicted outcomes. Representatives from more than 200 governments will gather in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa from the 30 November for the 28th round of global climate change negotiations.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

We can’t achieve net zero without looking into forests and the role they play in mitigating the effects of climate change,” says Alison Lee, Responsible Investment Manager at London CIV, one of eight UK local government pension schemes. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The loss of forest cover has stark implications for climate change and biodiversity. What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation? Only days after the COP26 declaration on deforestation, the environment minister of signatory Indonesia, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, said the plans were “inappropriate and unfair”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Talks on use of carbon markets to support national climate plans have begun well at COP29, with approval for standards and methodologies for activities conducted through an international carbon crediting mechanism. There is nevertheless a recognition that in the context of climate change, time is not on our side.

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