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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

As such, attention is likely to quickly turn to alternative avenues for accelerating the development and adoption of the lower-carbon shipping technologies and practices that remain in the pipeline.

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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“Huge Disconnect” Between Financiers and Scientists on Climate Risk  

Chris Hall

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

That difference brought the two of us together, as a climate scientist and an investor, to discuss how industrial zones around the world could, within a few years, tell a drastically different story about our climate. We joined together, one climate scientist and one investor, to share our sense of despair and hope.

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Sustainability & Transition

Sustainable Round Table

At Ceres, Bob founded the Investor Network on Climate Risk and co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) which has helped shape the field of corporate sustainability and now emerging mandatory requirements for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

GreenBiz

Climate scientists have unambiguously told us how to avoid the grimmest consequences of climate change: achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Our goal is to take this 'whole-of-government' approach and turn it into a 'whole-of-economy' approach. The plan builds the infrastructure for the economy of the future. .