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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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article was first published in Reuters Women have been a major force behind the most important milestones we have achieved on fighting climate change. When you look hard at climate progress, you can see the mark of women leaders. The climate space urgently needs more of the qualities that women leadership can bring.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This approach is often seen as necessary in the context of pressing systemic risks such as climate change. Long term resilience is also predicated on the effective management of climate, environmental, and social risks, meaning that our engagement plans have a large overlap with our equity peers.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 13, 2025

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Chris Hall

JULY 12, 2023

MDBs have an important role to play in providing catalytic capital across a variety of projects globally to incentivise investment from the private sector. The group plans to accelerate institutional investment in EMDEs over the next three years.

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Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2024

London Climate Action Week marked the halfway point between the annual UN Climate Conferences – COP28 in the UAE last year, and COP29 in Azerbaijan this year. asked one panel moderator at the Climate Innovation Forum. You could argue that the energy transition has not even started,” lamented one Climate Week panellist.

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Capaccio Environmental

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. However, the document still provides insight into the direction of the climate action landscape of the coming decade. What’s Next?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To combat climate change and address environmental challenges, financial institutions have recognised the importance of directing funds towards sustainability. While financing climate solutions has gained traction, financing for nature remains relatively unexplored.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Legacy European airlines continue to oppose the EU’s climate legislation, with companies like Air France KML leading the laggards, and low-cost airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair driving support for climate policy application, according to a new report. . The tax would operate transitionally over ten years from 2023. .

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 2, 2019

By: Elena Crete, Climate & Energy Manager, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Climate change is one of the world’s most complicated challenges, and nations are scrambling to organize around a common goal while maintaining their own interests. But small island states and others pushed to “welcome” the findings.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to the challenges of climate change. Arguably, we need to be thinking about transition planning as a system response to the challenges of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jamal Srouji, Global Climate Programme Associate at the W orld Resources Institute, says the Global Stocktake is a chance to correct course on climate. This year is a critical moment for climate action. 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Countries are obligated to report their greenhouse gas emissions to international bodies such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but recent studies suggest that the current methods for calculating methane emissions rely on outdated and incomplete information and may not accurately represent actual emissions.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Highlighting significant risks posed by the degradation of nature to the economy and financial system, the document proposes a new policy tool, based on the UK Climate Change Committee’s Net Zero Pathways , giving the private sector clarity and guidance on how it can contribute to national and global environmental targets. “Any

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

The investor-led project is working to develop a free, publicly available, independent tool that assesses countries on climate change and aims to improve investors’ understanding of the climate risks in their sovereign debt portfolios.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The development of the standard was led by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and IIGCC following an initial investor and company roundtable in November 2021 and took 18 months to develop, including a final consultation in May this year.

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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. . At the same time, frameworks are being developed to provide detailed guidance to investors.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

From jobs to climate change to reducing health disparities, our needs are many and investments to meet those needs will require mobilizing significant resources. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad. We must do better.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new paper from an independent group of climate experts emphasises “the critical importance of a comprehensive financial and regulatory ecosystem incentivising emissions reduction and removal, supported by a properly functioning carbon price.” An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

As the deadly toll of climate change is increasingly felt around the world, it’s more important than ever that we walk the walk. . Making good on a promise – Just as it’s important to reduce global CO2 levels to mitigate the effects of climate change, investors, companies and policymakers need to be paying attention to methane, too.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 30, 2023

Sachs and operates through offices in New York, Paris, and Kuala Lumpur. SDSN’s ongoing analysis under the FELD Action Tracker and Catalyst, including the review of updated NDCs and other key documents submitted by state parties before COP28, and of relevant global initiatives, and other information related to FELD products; 4.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

“Investors have called for increased engagement with Asian corporates on the adoption of net zero transition strategies,” said Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Building on foundational work launched last year, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) partnered with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Climate Art to put the document together.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

Investors are calling for accelerated climate action and increased transparency from Asia-Pacific (APAC) utilities despite their progress phasing out coal and upscaling their renewables capacity. South Korea’s National Pension Scheme (NPS) holds US$20.5 billion worth of bonds and shares in domestic coal companies and US$8.3

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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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Eco-Business

MAY 19, 2020

In recent years, the Singapore Government has steadily been increasing the breadth and depth of policies relating to sustainability and climate change. In the 2020 budget, and the subsequent Committee of Supply debates, a number of announcements were made, or reconfirmed, in the areas of sustainability and climate change.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2021

He described budgets as living documents, which reflect both current priorities as well as political compromises. Koundouri warned that the cost of not acting on climate change is much higher in the long run, and emphasized that these objectives are not as contradictory as it may seem when long-term costs are considered.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Whether we say climate justice, climate equity, the intersection of climate change and people or the social impacts of climate change, one thing is clear: Business has a role to play in addressing the structural inequity that causes low-income populations and communities of color to bear the brunt of the climate crisis. .

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Follow the science II As noted recently in this blog , countries have been slow to submit their updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. In its latest recommendations , the UKs Climate Change Committee (CCC) does not comment directly on the adequacy of these two documents.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

So, all of these things that we’re experiencing that are problematic as a result of climate change … are reduced if you can restore carbon to the soil,” Leeson said. The NFU considers it a threat to “treasured cultural landscapes” according to a consultation document submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Senior officials in the Biden administration revealed last week that the world’s biggest historical carbon polluter had “decided to support formal UN negotiations over possible compensation and assistance to countries that suffer devastation from storms, floods, and droughts made far worse by climate change,” Bloomberg writes.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The historic provisions, arrived at after round-the-clock negotiations by climate ministers and other senior officials, appeared in the energy transition section of the 21-page document. “A Rich countries with historical responsibilities for the climate crisis, like the UK, needed to do much more.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. As with previous years, 2022’s conference has focused on implementing climate policies – with decarbonisation a key theme. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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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. It does not address the yawning gap between climate science, and our climate policies.”

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