Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 29, 2021

COP26 is about implementation and the actions of this decade. We don’t need a new Paris Agreement treaty – we need a global ratcheting up of ambition. Read the full story from IEEFA. And that is what we are seeing – there is a pull forward in ambition timetables as the race accelerates, and the… Read more →

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

NDCs are a major part of countries’ obligations under the Paris Agreement, outlining their interim commitments on the pathway to net zero. The country’s new pledges are key pieces of India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution. to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through forest and tree cover.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DESCRIPTION: PARIS and SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 10, 2022 /3BL Media/ — The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched the Net Zero Playbook for Consumer Industries in collaboration with its members, Accenture and the Race to Zero. KEYWORDS: The Consumer Goods Forum, Net Zero, Accenture, COP27, COP26, Race to Zero. link] #netzero.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

Civil society organizations are gearing up to hold financial industry players accountable on the lofty commitments they made at COP26 in November. Ultimately, best practices come down to are we seeing year-over-year changes in their capital flows?”. It could also delay investments needed to help mitigate the impact of climate change.”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. Climate Change. As the U.K. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Current climate plans from the 193 signatory nations to the Paris Agreement are insufficient to achieve the goal to limit warming to 1.5°C, C, according to a new report from United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The clear highlight of the conference finale was the “Loss and damage” agreement, with developed nations committing to set up a fund that would pay for climate-change related damage in poorer, vulnerable countries. According to COP26 President Alok Sharma, even maintaining last year’s progress proved challenging.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021. Download the document.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century. We are now out of time.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This is the third in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. The new market-based instruments approved by Article 6 encourage international carbon trading, long seen as the likeliest way to incentivize global climate action.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The global goal for developed nations mobilize $100 billion in climate finance to their developing nation counterparts to mitigate and adapt to climate change is expected to be met in 2023, and surpassed in following years, according to a new report released by Canada and Germany ahead of the COP27 climate conference.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Report highlights Bloomberg’s work to mobilize the markets to fight climate change and its company-wide efforts to boost climate action in the lead up to COP26 Glasgow. This in turn helps markets to better understand how climate can impact businesses and economies. Supporting coherent, impactful climate action.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As we approach the critical final stages of COP26, the We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to take bold decisions to keep the 1.5°C C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . We ask for the final COP26 decision texts to: . We ask governments at COP26 to:

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

The Sector Standard for Coal enables comprehensive and comparable disclosure on: How companies respond to climate change mitigation demands , as reflected in the Paris Agreement, including plans to transition away from coal mining.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

New scientific paper says we will not reach Paris Agreement without urgent ocean action. A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Our planet faces an unprecedented slate of climate risks, and world leaders are gathering at COP26 in Glasgow next month with a mandate to stave off disaster. Under the Paris Agreement , which the U.S. The Paris Agreement and the Copenhagen convention before it included national financial commitments.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2022

It is heartening to see most corporate net-zero pledges clearly stating they don’t want to be left hanging, with words to the effect of “My organization makes this commitment with the expectation that governments will follow through on their own net-zero commitments to ensure that the goals of the Paris Agreement are met.”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how the carbon finance options defined at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) can help cut greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction costs for power utilities and large energy consumers.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Waste reduction and management, while not glamorous, are increasingly seen as low-hanging fruit as the world seeks climate solutions that can help keep global warming below the 1.5° Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. The Overlapping Climate Impacts of Waste .

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

Nearly three months after COP26, and six years after the Paris Agreement of 2015, why has so little happened to combat climate change, and how can businesses take action? C Supplier Engagement Guide, we outline how to engage suppliers to take climate action. In light of the newly launched 1.5°C Read the 1.5°C

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The European Council announced today that its member states have agreed on the EU’s negotiating position for the upcoming COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference, including calling on major economies to immediately ramp up their near-term climate goals, and to scale up climate finance support for developing countries.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Four Ways Development Agencies Can Advance Carbon Markets.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Agreements were reached on targets for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and its framework, emphasizing the importance of resilience and the need for financial, technological, and capacity-building support. Technological Innovations: COP28 showcased various technological advancements and innovations aimed at combating climate change.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26. To stay below 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Given the very stark message issued by the IPCC, it is crucial that the British Government shows leadership in fully integrating AD and biogas into its Paris Agreement and Net Zero targets”, she continues. There is no Net Zero without biogas.”, ”, Charlotte Morton concludes.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Andy Garraway, Senior Climate Policy Analyst at Risilience , insists that COPs are more than a talking shop and have been known to exceed expectations. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said: “This report puts the cards on the table – except this is not a game.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

BMO Global Asset Management (EMEA), which is now part of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has committed to continue to prioritise engagement with companies on major environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity, as well as human rights issues and executive pay. Making companies ready for tomorrow.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

When global leaders gathered at COP26 last year, governments pledged ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets to achieve net zero by 2050. Since the early days of the Kyoto Protocol, carbon was the commodity of choice for measuring and offsetting the negative impact on the climate. Months on, the effects have been debatable at best.

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3BL Media

APRIL 15, 2022

NACW 2022 was an excellent time to meet again in-person after the long pandemic break from live events, and very timely as the world raises its ambitions to meet climate change goals. SCS Global Services exhibited at the show and reconnected with long-time colleagues and friends in the carbon mitigation community.

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3BL Media

MAY 18, 2022

There was a lot of media attention around COP26 last year where world leaders gathered to continue the work to uphold the actions promised by the Paris Agreement, 2015. Earlier this year, the UN released the latest IPCC report, which reaffirmed the urgent need for global action on climate change NOW. C ambition.?We

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Policy-driven benefits. We must do more.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The new “ Transport NDC Tracker ” launched on 28 September by the International Transport Forum at the OECD monitors how transport appears in the decarbonisation commitments of the countries that have joined the Paris Climate Agreement. Climate change cannot be stopped without decarbonising transport.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The fight against climate change is a story half-written, and so far, big, powerful economies have mostly been the ones to tell it. That needs to change. Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 By Maria Teresa Zappia.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. . The G7 Communique shows a patchwork approach that failed to live up to the promise made just a few months ago at COP26. Such policies would also go a long way towards cutting emissions in half by 2030, keeping temperature rise to 1.5C

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