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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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.

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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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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement. But at COP26 the stepsister finally got her moment, and with good reason – methane has over 80 times the warming power of C02 , but it only lasts in the environment for a fraction of the time, so cutting methane emissions is the fastest, most impactful way to reduce global warming.

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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.

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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. Established under Article 7.1

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

A problem with a lot of existing guidance from regulators or other organisations is that they publish big and complex documents that take a lot of time [for trustees] to understand. In April, President Joe Biden signed an executive order reiterating the country’s commitment to delivering on the aforementioned COP26 pledge. .

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Overall, the findings of our analysis are sobering: seven years after the Paris Agreement, countries still do not sufficiently and consistently include emissions from, and actions for, their food and land sectors.

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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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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.

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