Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

More than 90 wind energy companies and associations from around the world called on leaders to take decisive action in pursuit of net-zero carbon emissions goals ahead of the COP26 United Nations climate summit next month. What we don't have yet is the unprecedented political will we need to make this happen.".

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It was also the first country in the Middle East to set a net zero goal, which it announced in 2021, ahead of the COP26 climate conference. We already have significant investments in clean energy projects in operation and others under development.” million barrels of petroleum and liquids per day.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The 10 recommendations in the COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health propose a set of priority actions from the global health community to governments and policy makers, calling on them to act with urgency on the current climate and health crises. Download the document.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

C, including supporting the development of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) upcoming sustainability and climate-related corporate reporting standards, calling for an end of construction of new unabated coal-fired power plants, and supporting initiatives to ramp climate transition finance to developing countries.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It has been launched at COP27, where a key theme is making good on the commitments made at COP26 and demonstrating action. Nigel Topping, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the UK, COP26 will introduce the Playbook as part of the Marrakech Partnership’s Industry Action Event on November 11TH, 2022 at 10:00 EET. link] #netzero.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are committed to developing products that allow them to invest or participate in efforts to bring about a more sustainable global economy.". "We know this is an issue that many of our 40 million customers care deeply about, particularly in our retail and private banking businesses," Quinn wrote.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The COP27 text reiterated the COP26 decision but failed to broaden it to encompass oil and gas, despite a proposal by India to that end (a move that would have helped take the emphasis off coal, of which it is a major consumer). COP decisions are not binding and the language on fossil fuels at COP26 was watered down during negotiations.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Eleven years ago, in 2010, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP15, developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries. A long list of developed countries pledged but, according to the OECD 2020, not all have delivered.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Just before the launch of COP26, the UN climate conference in November, the DivestInvest network calculated that endowments, portfolios and pension funds worth nearly US$40 trillion have now committed to divesting their fossil fuel holdings. Eroding public support for the sector has been considered valuable work in itself.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

A group of investors representing over $1 trillion in assets under management has published a letter to the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), urging it to prioritize the development of global reporting standards for companies to disclose on human capital and human rights.

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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. After 18 months of the pandemic, developing countries’ resources are stretched thin. This model should be quickly applied to all kinds of support for developing countries.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Looking at how international development agencies can advance carbon markets. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how international development agencies can advance carbon markets. SOURCE: Tetra Tech. Key Issue 1—Domestic Action vs. International Transfers.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 5, 2022

billion acres of previously deforested land where they could channel agricultural development across South America alone.” . “There are 1.6 In the lead-up to November’s climate summit, calls for an emergency global movement to reverse forest loss are mounting.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too. C future within reach.".

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Global commodities trading company Trafigura announced today a new commitment to purchase at least 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits by the end of 2030, joining an initiative aimed at supporting the development of the CO2 removal market and solutions.

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ESG Today

APRIL 25, 2024

Faber added: “Beyond climate, we are committed to building out the global baseline of sustainability-related financial disclosure to meet the needs of investors.”

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Following on from last November’s COP26 in Glasgow, Climate Innovation Forum (CIF) was seeking continued climate innovation collaboration this year, uniting senior public and private sector decision makers to accelerate the delivery of net zero commitments. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

International Trade Secretary and UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, said: “With over £200 million ($269 million) worth of backing, we are helping to bring solar energy to two million Turkish households.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Days before the United Nations COP26 climate summit is expected to, among other things, pressure world leaders to boost clean energy financing for developing countries , a multinational effort has brought the first-ever solar farm online in Burundi. Follow @EngelsAngle. billion in 2019. billion in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As a member of The Global Action Drive group (GAD)*, WRAP and its partners are calling on all countries to take the following decisive steps: Commit to delivering UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Their awareness has come a long way since her joint presentation with Michael Mullan, Programme Lead, Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on how to align finance with climate resilient development “fell on deaf ears” at COP26 in Glasgow. “[At

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. First movers can develop an innovation and others can follow with scale; there can be complementary fits between a new startup and an iconic brand. And as we learn, we can share." .

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 10, 2022

Many see carbon markets as key to channelling billions of dollars into reducing these emissions, while protecting forests and other carbon sinks, such as peatlands and wetlands, in developing countries. At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With last year’s COP26 convening shining the light brightly on commitments such as carbon neutrality by 2050 and almost 200 countries agreeing to do more to fight climate change, private equity, like everyone else, is expected to step up.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The post $100 billion is just a down payment on financing the climate transition in developing nations appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21 – For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost, as the old proverb goes. For want of $100 billion, a.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

He has cast doubt on the urgency of the climate crisis in the past and is an enthusiastic advocate of both fracking and more North Sea development. . Tom Burke, co-founder of the environmental think tank E3G, told The Guardian that Rees-Mogg “has showed no sign of understanding the complexity or opportunity of net zero.”

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As COP27 opens in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, developing countries and climate justice leaders are urging a notoriously reluctant developed world to get serious about financing for loss and damage, with the immediate and long-term well-being of hundreds of millions hanging in the balance. “If The evolution of ‘loss and damage’.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In early December, Canada announced it would implement the Glasgow Statement , a multilateral commitment signed at last year’s COP26 to end international public financing for fossil fuels by the end of 2022 and fully prioritize the clean energy transition. Between 2016 and 2019, EDC provided an average of $10.6 billion in 2020.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The formation of the TPT was announced last year by then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and now UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, at COP26 , and officially launched in April 2022. The FCA has been actively involved in the development and drafting of these initial outputs.”.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

Consumers in developed countries woke up to what was being degraded, ecologically and culturally, by the advent of highly-processed food. Since the mid-20th century, they’ve been doing this to a T, powered by synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, GMOs and other food and farming technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 20, 2021

ScottishPower and Shell have joined forces to bid to develop the world’s first large-scale floating offshore windfarms in the north-east of Scotland, they announced last week. The group submitted multiple proposals for new floating offshore windfarms as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind Leasing, which closed for submissions on July 16.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. Ahead of COP26, the UK must show strong leadership and commitment on environmental issues or risk serious embarrassment.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2024

At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 145 countries – representing 90% of the worlds forests – signed a deforestation pledge, committing to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. At COP26, the UN also set a deadline for companies and financial institutions to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation by 2025.

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3BL Media

MARCH 24, 2022

Commenting on the agreement, Erkki Liikanen, Chair of the IFRS Foundation Trustees, said: “At COP26 we heard strong support for consolidation in the sustainability reporting landscape. Many jurisdictions look to the GRI Standards when developing their own multi-stakeholder sustainability reporting requirements.

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