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Bloomberg Publishes 2021 Impact Report

3BL Media

Report highlights Bloomberg’s work to mobilize the markets to fight climate change and its company-wide efforts to boost climate action in the lead up to COP26 Glasgow. The report also provides details on how Bloomberg continues to invest in an increasingly diverse workforce, and drives change on critical social issues. Social Impact.

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International cooperation and open data are key to a just transition away from fossil fuels

Impact Alpha

This week, 196 countries are gathering in Glasgow for the long-awaited COP26 climate summit. They will work to deliver on their Paris Agreement. The post International cooperation and open data are key to a just transition away from fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment Firm Ramps up Clients' Sustainability Efforts

3BL Media

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Investing in Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 The Impact Investing Institute’s new Just Transition Finance Challenge , whose founding participants are development and mainstream asset owners and managers representing a total of $4.4

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A Very African Climate Conversation

Chris Hall

Feeding into that debate is Amal-Lee Amin, Head of Climate Change at British International investment (BII), a UK government-owned institution which provides development finance an impact investment in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. BII hopes that contributions to TACC will “shape conversations at COP27 in Egypt and beyond”.

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Take Five: A Missed Opportunity?

Chris Hall

Looking for leaders – Next month, at COP27, we will hear a lot about the progress of countries in reducing carbon emissions as part of their nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement. How quickly and how high would that rise if impact was firmly put on the same footing in fiduciary duty as risk and return?

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Act Naturally

Chris Hall

The US has re-signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and will bring forward new mandatory disclosure rules for public companies in 2022. Last year’s COP26 – with a full day dedicated to finance – raised awareness and added significant momentum. Ambitious environmental programme”.