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

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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. For more information, please visit: www.theconsumergoodsforum.com. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. C, and to meet 1.5°C

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. As the U.K. has a role to play in pushing for the highest possible ambition at this week's talks.

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G7 Leaders Support Development of Global Sustainable Disclosure Standards

ESG Today

Leaders of leading industrial nations at the Japan-hosted G7 summit in Hiroshima made a series of announcements in support of their Paris Agreement commitments to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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Carbon markets could help the planet, but only if Indigenous land rights are recognized

Corporate Knights

At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Communities at risk. Article 6 sets out co-operative approaches that countries can take to reach their climate targets, including through the use of market mechanisms such as carbon markets.

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IFRS Chair: Global Sustainability and Climate Reporting Standards to be Released in June

ESG Today

But this time because there is such an urgency – we have the Paris Agreement, we have a lot of pressure from the markets, from NGOs – everybody feels that we must move forward.” I’ve been working with standardization, and normally two issues never meet: speed and standardization.

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Net zero by 2050 is “too little too late”: Scientists make a case for net negative strategies

Envirotec Magazine

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C For more information, read CCAG’s latest report here.

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