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Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26

3BL Media

SUMMARY: The need for climate finance – the local, national, or transnational financing that enables climate change mitigation and adaptation – was much debated at COP26. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Governmental Pledges. Bridging the Funding Gap at COP26: Private Sector Initiatives. SOURCE: EcoVadis.

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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates

GreenBiz

Vital reading, particularly in a year that should see Glasgow hosting the COP26 climate summit. But if I could propose one additional New Year’s resolution for Gates, it would be to send another book to all COP26 delegates: Kim Stanley Robinson’s " The Ministry for the Future.".

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

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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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Fossil fuels phase-out pact fizzled at COP27. What more can be done?

Corporate Knights

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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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

And citizens and consumers will have the kind of granular information they need to more effectively target the decision-makers and brands standing in the way of a sustainable future. Slow-to-change investors and greenwashers in the business community will lose their cover to continue propping up the fossil fuel economy.

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Some are given information about what goals the competitors are setting, and what the talent, customers and investors are expecting and demanding from the board. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high. Many boardrooms around the world are presented with net-zero goals.

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For Private Equity - ESG Momentum Is Peaking

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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. Highlighting companies is Forbes' Impact 20.