We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

We have seen companies invest in the development of innovative solutions, trying to find low carbon alternatives, new technologies, business models, more dynamic and groundbreaking collaborations. It also means spending more energy pushing the laggards to take climate action.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds. While China has been far behind more developed markets on this issue, it is slowly improving, Greenpeace said. But its provisions are voluntary and impose no quantitative standards on managers.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, the opposition Labour party displayed tone-deafness to the latest alarm bells of the climate crisis by ditching its £28 billion (US$35 billion) green investment pledge in the name of fiscal responsibility. Missed opportunity – How many green-tinged U-turns can we fit into one blog? Just one more.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Laurence Tubiana, head of the European Climate Foundation, former Ireland president Mary Robinson, and Sue Biniaz, US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate, played pivotal roles in securing the Paris Agreement of 2015.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2023

Indirectly these institutions significantly contribute to global sustainable development and climate goals. They have the size and influence to trigger a domino effect that will accelerate the greening of the finance sector. When it comes to decarbonisation and meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, they should be trailblazing.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

The market for climate-aligned bonds has developed in response to a shortage of ESG-labelled debt, with investors seeking instead to identify the debt securities of firms deriving the vast majority of their revenues from climate-aligned activities. The number of sustainability bond issues doubled versus 2020. Inconsistent information.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not least plans for a ‘loss and damage’ fund, which aims to help the most climate-vulnerable emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) cover the costs of climate change’s physical impacts. Just over two weeks later, there is much to be happy about. C is to remain achievable. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Its conclusions have since been endorsed with apparent sincerity by the UK government, which announced in June that it was committing to ensuring that more of the UK’s largest new infrastructure projects “leave nature and biodiversity in an overall better state than before development”.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Delaying the transition to clean solutions, will mean losing competitiveness vis a vis countries like China that will reap the benefits of their leadership in the development of clean energy supply chains (from extraction of critical materials and manufacturing, to combining clean solutions like renewables, electric vehicles and battery storage).

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

Its prescriptive nature and rigidity, could inadvertently create friction, thus stifling the development of the sustainable debt market. Given the significant investment needed to finance the broad environmental transitions ongoing in the economy, we are keen that additional red-tape doesnt hinder this capital allocation.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Moreover, 60% of projects and 68% of the jobs are in Republican-controlled areas , making it politically difficult to dismantle these policies entirely.

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