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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling.

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Guest Post: Why Governments Must Encourage More Investment in Green Infrastructure, Now!

ESG Today

By: Chris Lewis, Global Infrastructure Leader at EY At COP27 in November last year, there was an overwhelming consensus that the target of lowering global temperatures by 1.5 ° C – as outlined in the historic Paris Agreement – is now at risk of not being met, unless the world acts now.

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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

Back then, I wouldn’t have believed that we would come so far in international collaboration on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement,” he said. Therefore, as we develop our renewables ecosystem, including hydro and energy interconnectors, balancing the energy grid becomes much easier.” It’ll be a mess.”

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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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.

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SDSN at the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week

Sustainable Development Network

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. The implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement calls for major transformations.

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“Huge Disconnect” Between Financiers and Scientists on Climate Risk  

Chris Hall

A groundswell of concern is developing around the soundness of economic research used to underpin climate-related risk and investment models.