Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Deforestation, biodiversity and protecting nature were key issues at last year’s COP26 Summit, yet promises and pledges made in Glasgow have so far achieved a “pathetic rate of change”. It is widely accepted that net zero cannot be reached without a rethink to our relationship with nature. Leaving nature behind. Priority areas.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

On the investment side, many managers have signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, are using the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change’s Net Zero Investment Framework to set and monitor targets, and have joined the investor-led initiative Climate Action 100+. . GFANZ steps up its guidance

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Scale up support for adaptation.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

“Current vote disclosure practices do not provide consistent, comprehensive and granular information on voting, especially at the fund or mandate level, to enable investors and broader market participants to hold asset managers to account on their voting practices,” the consultation document explained.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Examples include a raft of net-zero commitments: Canada and the Republic of Korea have proposed net zero goals in legislation; Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and the United States all have included net zero ambitions in policy documents; and Australia, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa have communicated net zero targets in pledges.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The proposed implementation guidance and the disclosure framework both build on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) transition plan framework , as well as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The proposed implementation guidance and the disclosure framework both build on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) transition plan framework , as well as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards. .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps. As a result, 91% of the global economy and almost half of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. At COP26 last year, we left with the feeling that businesses were committed to net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document. Putting a price on pollution. Low-hanging fruit?

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Prior to COP26 last year, a group of asset owners and managers wrote to COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma to urge governments to set a timeline for the introduction of net zero accounting and auditing. . Asset owners are outlining their expectations.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, in a new roadmap document. We will integrate net zero into every aspect of our work over the coming decade.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And without a substantial contribution of these sectors, net zero strategies and the Paris goal of averting or limiting catastrophic effects of climate change will remain out of reach. How much are current NDCs focused on action? Are they conducive to implementation and policy follow up ‘on the ground’?

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Chris Hall

JULY 18, 2022

Based on voting policies and related documentation from 25 leading US and European firms, a new Morningstar report says asset managers are making policies “more detailed and specific” on environmental and social themes.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The current lack of [standardisation] poses a significant cost to asset owners and limits their ability to incorporate these issues into investment decision-making,” says the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), a group of 74 institutional investors with US$10.6 trillion in assets. .

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

This ambitious document outlines support for the low carbon sector via the creation of 250,000 new green jobs and via direct industry investment. Every job has the potential to become ‘green’ as the world moves to combat climate change, and there are a huge range of skills which will support the transition to a net zero economy.”.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The final agreement, however, was not more ambitious than last year’s COP26 document, removing the 2025 peak emissions goal at the last minute, and only reiterating the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C. According to COP26 President Alok Sharma, even maintaining last year’s progress proved challenging.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

As a growing number of asset owners commit to transitioning their investments to net zero, they are becoming increasingly aware of how deforestation threatens the realisation of their decarbonisation targets. . “We In Q1 2022 , forest destruction covered 941 km², which is a 64% increase compared to Q1 the previous year. .

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Enbridge’s work to reduce methane emissions from our operations Enbridge has a comprehensive plan to reduce our GHG emissions intensity by 35% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 (see pages 16–19). We take many steps to educate customers, suppliers, neighbors, and the general public about this risk.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time. billion and Canada added $30 billion in new funding for the climate.

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