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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness. The private sector remains the most reliable engine for innovation in our economy. New challenges, new opportunities.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

"Despite this significant drop from 2019 to 2020, the overall trend of the last five years is one heading definitively in the wrong direction," the report states. trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates. Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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The Future of Climate Investing

3BL Media

She argued that because there is no standardized definition for sustainable investment, it is harder to determine which ESG initiatives are causing a net change for the good. While there is still a long way to go to meet the Paris agreement, Free ended the panel with a simple blueprint to reach it.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

Almost seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, any number of initiatives have been launched with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Sustainable Finance Demands More Than Just Cutting Carbon

Chris Hall

As laid out by the international Paris Agreement on climate change, we also need to build resilience to climate impacts and ensure a just transition for workers and communities affected by climate action. The Real Definition of Paris-aligned Finance . Paris Agreement alignment is a holistic process.

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What is the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

Sphera

Reduction targets are “science-based” if they align with levels the scientific community deems necessary to meet the 1.5 - 2 °C temperature reduction target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In the Paris Agreement, world governments committed to curbing global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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UN climate conference more productive than you think

Sense and Sustainability

Fortunately, the ‘ambition mechanism’ from the Paris Agreement — the process it establishes to periodically review countries’ progress toward meeting their commitments to address climate change, and to ratchet up their ambition over time — worked. This is a welcome step. Let’s keep going. Image courtesy of Flickr. 24, 2021.

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