Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2024

Speaking at the launch, Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and UN Climate Change High-Level Champion at COP27, said many are already struggling with the “silent crisis” of unsustainable debt levels. At last, this is changing – and nowhere faster than in Denmark.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

COP27 must boost Africa’s adaptation to the physical risks of climate change, says Amal-Lee Amin, Head of Climate Change at British International Investment. Africa contributes less than 3% to global emissions but is the most vulnerable continent in the world to the negative impacts form climate change.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The EU’s Taxonomy, now live, will only cover economic activities that address climate change until at least January 2023. The US has re-signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and will bring forward new mandatory disclosure rules for public companies in 2022. Ambitious environmental programme”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

“We are starting to see a blue rush, as financial institutions become more interested in investing in the blue economy,” said Chris Gorell Barnes, Founding Partner at impact investment firm Ocean 14 Capital. “The issue is that there are not enough vehicles of institutional quality to attract enough investment.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

The launch comes as new research from the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland has found that the tropics lost 10% more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021 despite a COP26 pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. The new data suggests that leaders are failing on their commitment.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network.

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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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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

At COP26 in Glasgow last year, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders in the automotive industry and road transport committed to “rapidly accelerating the transition to zero emission vehicles to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement”. China has emerged as a driver of the global EV market, almost tripling sales in 2021 to reach 3.4

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