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New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UNEP FI’s Carlin

Chris Hall

Speaking at ESG Investor’s inaugural Stewardship Summit, UNEP FI’s Head of Climate Risk says transition finance flows to developing economies are too low to meet net zero targets. The post New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UNEP FI’s Carlin appeared first on ESG Investor.

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We Mean Business Coalition welcomes ICVCM approval of three REDD+ methodologies for VCM to accelerate credible nature investment

We Mean Business Coalition

The recent approval by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) of three REDD+ methodologies for issuing high-integrity carbon credits is a watershed advancement in developing a next generation VCM that delivers results for climate, nature and people.

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Climate Change Forum in APAC Hopes To Bring Global Solutions

3BL Media

From the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals Summit and Climate Week NYC to the UN’s climate change conference COP 28 , the collective goal is to unite people worldwide to steer passion and innovation into tangible climate action solutions. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too.

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Nature critical to infrastructure for sustainable development: UN report

Envirotec Magazine

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Investors Demand Comprehensive Plans at COP29

Chris Hall

Submitted every five years under the Paris Agreement, NDCs outline each signatory country’s plans to decarbonise their respective economies including a set of intermediate targets and the steps to reach net zero, including policy action required to enforce compliance. NDCs are expected to play a central role at this year’s COP.

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Capital Flows not Supporting Nature Commitments

Chris Hall

“Investors and companies are increasingly setting climate and nature targets, but once those are in place, they need to be thinking more about how to redirect capital [in line with these goals],” Ivo Mulder , Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told ESG Investor. trillion in 2022.

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Ancient Arctic Organisms Key Threat in Global ‘Polycrisis’

Chris Hall

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have now warned in a new report that many more “reservoirs of ancient, mostly uncharacterised microorganisms and viruses” could be lurking under the tundra – which is warming at four times the global average. Some of the identified risks are, unsurprisingly, environmental.

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