ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The report found that most companies are making progress on decarbonization, revealing a 6% annual decrease in average emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of revenue, since the 2016 Paris Agreement.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Three months later, Clean Creatives published a report documenting over 1,000 fossil fuel contracts in the PR and advertising industry since the start of 2023. The company is in line to earn $5 million for this work, according to documents the company filed with the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Responses to the climate crisis have so far “not been adequate,” the document says, “while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” In 2019, he declared a global “ climate emergency ,” saying a failure to act represents “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Download the document. In the years after the call for a balance between sinks and sources of emissions in the Paris Agreement became the concept of “ net zero”, thousands of cities, regions, companies and financiers formed a voluntary groundswell and swung behind the concept. But net zero is now at an inflection point.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement; to develop and implement a plan to reduce “the carbon footprint and the environmental impact” of any products or services provided to Salesforce; and to publicly disclose their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. He welcomed the nudge from Salesforce.

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Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2024

But the bright midsummer weather in the British capital didn’t match the sombre tone of many attendees and speakers, who expressed rising scepticism over whether the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5°C C by 2100 was still feasible. Why are we stalling when we finished last year on a high [at COP28]?”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis. Follow the money, indeed. Corporate Strategy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Documents obtained via an InfluenceMap freedom of information request revealed IAG had, in January of this year, emailed a European Commission official advocating for the region’s sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) mandate to be restricted to domestic EU flights. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Established under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement , the Global Stocktake is designed “to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of [the Paris] Agreement and its long-term goals. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Quick background to CSRD To deliver on the 1.5ºC targets of the Paris Agreement, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) was established in 2001 with the support of the European Commission. We explain what this means, why it's important, and how companies can prepare for it.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius.

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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We are more resolute than ever to deliver on our mission and be a trusted partner and force for good in the communities we serve, as documented in the 2021 report.”. This science-based target is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit total global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Research shows that directing finance towards nature-related themes and nature-based solutions could provide around a third of the climate mitigation needed to reach the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. The benchmark also publishes an Investor Guidance document which financial institutions can use in their stewardship activities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

per year, when they need to be falling by 7% every year to 2030, according to some estimates, to keep alive the hopes of the Paris agreement. The word’s appearance would put carbon removal at the centre of achieving the aims of the Paris agreement, she said, although there is no firm agreement on what it means.

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Chris Hall

JULY 12, 2023

The group plans to accelerate institutional investment in EMDEs over the next three years.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 12, 2023

of the Paris Agreement will realise the potential of carbon markets globally, but progress remains slow. Finalisation of Article 6.2, Supervisory Body has been discussing the operationalisation of the promised international carbon crediting mechanism, including underpinning methodologies and greenhouse gas (GHG) removals guidance.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the 2015 UN Paris Agreement, the world’s nations pledged to pursue efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 Researchers should handle data responsibly, report on the nature of the science involved and document the decision-making process from start to finish. degrees Celsius. Informed Governance.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Highlighting significant risks posed by the degradation of nature to the economy and financial system, the document proposes a new policy tool, based on the UK Climate Change Committee’s Net Zero Pathways , giving the private sector clarity and guidance on how it can contribute to national and global environmental targets. “Any

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2015, the Paris Agreement was put forth as a unifying doctrine in which 196 countries agreed to work together to fight climate change and move toward a low-carbon future. Since then, country delegations have been working to identify the rules and pathways to implement the Agreement. The final decision?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Market participants are paying special attention to the transparency of covenants, transaction documents and use of proceeds. “To Moreover, given tropical forests’ vital role in the country’s nationally determined contribution to the Paris Agreement, it is also supporting the government on meeting its climate targets.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 30, 2023

Sachs and operates through offices in New York, Paris, and Kuala Lumpur. SDSN’s ongoing analysis under the FELD Action Tracker and Catalyst, including the review of updated NDCs and other key documents submitted by state parties before COP28, and of relevant global initiatives, and other information related to FELD products; 4.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The final agreement, however, was not more ambitious than last year’s COP26 document, removing the 2025 peak emissions goal at the last minute, and only reiterating the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C. According to COP26 President Alok Sharma, even maintaining last year’s progress proved challenging.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

“To deliver their own plans effectively, companies need clear and coherent policy settings, as well as understanding the direction of the economy and how that flows from international agreements – most notably the Paris Agreement,” he explained. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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Chris Hall

JULY 11, 2022

To be included in the taxonomy, gas-fired power or heat assets must have lifecycle emissions below 100 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour or “meet a number of stringent conditions and obtain a construction permit by 2030”, according to the Commission’s Q&A document. Members of the Joint ECON/ENVI Committee previously objected to the DA. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 22, 2022

Given the mixed track record of the finance sector in aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement, its response to the increased pressure is seen as key test of major institutions’ ability to transition long-established business models. . commitment ?they they have made and?for for implementing?the

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

The FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 Index will give investors the ability to align their exposure with the 2015 Paris Agreement using the TOPIX 500 as a base universe,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They also incorporated direct boat-based measurements of methane concentrations around offshore gas platforms in the North Sea collected in summer 2017, documented in a study also led by the authors. These updates resulted in a total methane emission estimate more than five times larger than reported emissions.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 16, 2023

The need for substantially higher funding for the SDGs has been widely documented, by the SDSN, the IMF, and others. Financing gaps of $1-4 trillion per year (1-4% of world output) block the achievement of the SDGs, Paris Agreement, Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, and other global goals in the developing world.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Asian regulators are progressively encouraging the adoption and disclosure of Paris Agreement-aligned transition strategies, alongside a heightened focus on effective corporate engagement.”.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Globally, jobs in the energy sector are projected to increase from 18 million today to 26 million in 2050 if the world cuts carbon to meet the well-below 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement , according to a model created by researchers in Canada and Europe. The new study was published earlier this summer in One Earth.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

Carmen Nuzzo , Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), told ESG Investor that ASCOR will allow investors to track sovereigns’ efforts toward their net zero targets and the national determined contributions (NDCs) to which they’ve committed by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters – so says a new report from the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Currently, between 1 and 1.5%

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

Around two-thirds (1,557) of cases have been filed since the Paris Agreement was established in 2015. The report found that the country is far and away the country with the highest number of documented climate litigation cases, with 1,590 in total, followed by Australia with 130 cases, and the UK with 102.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The metrics laid out in both documents will now be pilot tested by mining firms with the objective of “testing their practicality”. Those principles are strategic flexibility, separate disclosure and net zero alignment testing, a transition risk focus, the use of existing frameworks, simplicity, and transparency.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

The NFU considers it a threat to “treasured cultural landscapes” according to a consultation document submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. Countries would never have signed the Paris Agreement without the belief that cutting emissions could be economically viable. “It

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