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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

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DESCRIPTION: The United Nations Glasgow Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, concluded in November with 200 nations signing the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP), an agreement that could accelerate climate action and drive big carbon cuts. COP26 Reflects Increased Drive for Climate Action . SOURCE: AllianceBernstein.

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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

Reid is one of thousands of business leaders, policy-makers and civil-society advocates who have gathered in New York (after a two-year pandemic hiatus) for more than 500 roundtables, panels and side events scattered across the city. It’s all part of the drum-beating prelude to the 27th UN climate summit taking place in Egypt this November.

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The Consumer Goods Forum Launches the "Net Zero Playbook For Consumer Industries", in Collaboration With Accenture

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: PARIS and SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 10, 2022 /3BL Media/ — The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched the Net Zero Playbook for Consumer Industries in collaboration with its members, Accenture and the Race to Zero. KEYWORDS: The Consumer Goods Forum, Net Zero, Accenture, COP27, COP26, Race to Zero. link] #netzero.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. Not in this text,” said COP26 chair Alok Sharma. Clear follow-through on the phasedown of coal?

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Biogas trade association hosts side event at COP26, exploring short-lived climate pollutants

Envirotec Magazine

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change. That is what we at the WBA are aiming to achieve.”

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Fossil fuel expansion will be the litmus test for banks’ net-zero promises

Corporate Knights

Civil society organizations are gearing up to hold financial industry players accountable on the lofty commitments they made at COP26 in November. The alliance, led by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney, comprises separate agreements for various financial sectors.

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COP27 litmus test: Will wealthy countries finally pay for climate change loss and damage?

Corporate Knights

And even if there were not a shortfall, humanitarian aid focuses on immediate needs, not medium- or long-term ones, much less climate impacts that are slow-onset events like the erosion of a country’s fisheries due to ocean warming. Staggering losses, staggering profits. billion in economic losses.