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Ahead of Climate Week 2022, Ceres To Urge Investors, Companies, and Policymakers To Turn the Year’s Climate Victories Into Even More Ambitious Action

3BL Media

climate action and investments, as private and public sector leaders raise ambition commitments and policies to capitalize on the opportunities of the net zero transition. But to meet our climate goals and complete the transition to a just and inclusive net zero economy by 2050, more work lies ahead.

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Passive Assets Standing in the Way of Net Zero Commitments

Jon Hale

End of Week Notes Another reason to redouble active ownership efforts The sense of optimism that permeated the first week of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow took a sobering turn this week as overall commitments appeared to fall short of the goal of limiting global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: May 12, 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

The latest net zero signals of change include a solar boost for South Africa’s grid and a successful energy efficiency trial for UK companies. GFANZ confirmed that the chapter will launch in June, and will support local financial institutions to decarbonize their investments and help the country to meet its net zero goal.

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Why sustainable engineering is good business

Sustainability Matters

COP26 saw the world’s nations come together and make new environmental pledges, including a US-China agreement to boost cooperation in combating climate change, India’s pledge to achieve net zero by 2070 and 23 countries committing to phasing out coal. Investors now focus on sustainable outcomes.

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Policymaker Inaction on Climate “Eroding Investor Confidence”

Chris Hall

C – as called for in the Paris Agreement – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. This is in contrast to the results following Glasgow’s COP26 in 2021, with 30% of investors agreeing that it boosted the chances of meeting the targets and more agreeing than disagreeing (29%) with the statement.

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EM Adaptation Gap High on COP28 Agenda

Chris Hall

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), US$4 trillion needs to be invested in renewable energy globally every year by 2030 to achieve net zero by 2050. At least US$1 trillion of this needs to be annually invested in EMDEs. There is ample investment opportunity, he noted.

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Blended Finance Market for Climate Shrinking in 2022

Chris Hall

“It isn’t necessarily the case that investors don’t want to invest in adaptation projects, but rather that there is a more limited pipeline of bankable and scaled projects,” Leticia Ferreras Astorqui, Vice President of Development Finance at Allianz Global Investors, said during a webinar launching the report. .