ESG Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Morgan Stanley revealed the introduction of a new range-based approach to its financed emissions reduction targets, introducing a new lower band to reflect the fact that the global economy and policy is not currently on track to with the ambition to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C C above preindustrial levels.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While investors and companies are already setting net zero targets, laying out transition plans, and engaging with governments, more needs to be done to reduce methane emissions and reverse nature loss and water degradation across key sectors. The world is facing unprecedented impacts from a warming planet.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

COP28 represents a critical, and perhaps the last opportunity for Parties and non-state actors to deliver on the ambitions of the Paris Agreement to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5°C But they cannot do it alone. But this is not widely recognised.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Asset managers’ net zero targets depend on governments living up to their commitments, says Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of AIGCC and IGCC and NZAM Chair. In the past 12 months, signatories have been taking a range of actions to implement their individual net zero commitments.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The regulatory changes and shifting market demands, as well as the opportunities to innovate and improve operational efficiencies that come with a global economy shifting towards low-carbon technologies. scenario is the IPCC’s lowest emission scenario, aimed at keeping global warming below 1.5°C IPCC RCP 1.9 The IPCC RCP 1.9

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Forum will bring together leaders across the private and public sectors to recognize progress made on transition finance and accelerate further action in support of a global net-zero economic transition. The event will be held from 3:30pm ET at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

The letter makes a series of key demands, including calling on the bank to aligns its climate policy with the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to 1.5°C, C, and to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 48% by 2030, on a 2019 basis.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has warned that carbon-intensive companies are not progressing fast enough to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, supporting the rationale for its revised engagement strategy.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scott Tew, VP Sustainability: With the call to triple renewables deployment and transition energy systems away from fossil fuels, Dubai may be the most significant COP since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Is the agreement perfect? We are living through the fastest and most systemic overhaul of the global economy in human history.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Action by banks to reach net zero emissions and meet climate goals is “insufficient”, according to two reports which also highlight significant gaps in the policies guiding the sector’s transition. C or below 2°C in the medium term (2028-35), as well as lacking short- and long-term targets to map a clear pathway to net zero by 2050.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A letter from 534 financial institutions representing US$29 trillion in assets under management called for policy action in five areas to accelerate private sector investment in a “ just transition to a climate-resilient, nature-positive, net-zero economy”. NDCs are expected to play a central role at this year’s COP.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

As in the rest of the private sector, where at least 20% of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, many leading investors are also focused on reducing carbon emissions. Going Beyond Net Zero Emissions. Paris Agreement alignment is a holistic process.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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Sphera

APRIL 21, 2022

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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has launched the Net Zero Standard for Diversified Mining to provide its signatories and investors with a “transparent, systematic, and evidence-backed” engagement tool. Gardiner said that current volumes of mined coal are “well above ” what is needed in a net zero world.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In February, the scheme committed to further develop and embed climate and ESG risk management, include a commitment to vote in favour of shareholder resolutions aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Two banks have committed to take the requested action and a third including just transition ambitions in its net zero plan.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. Decarbonizing the global economy means lessening our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing dramatically our use of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass, and hydropower.

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Sphera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To decarbonize the global economy in alignment with the goals established by the Paris Agreement, all economic actors in the real economy need to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sufficiently to align with required emissions pathways. Celsius with no or limited overshoot.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy. Accelerating the build-out of hydrogen infrastructure will radically improve national and corporate abilities to meet net zero and decarbonisation targets.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. For the first time, the IMO has also agreed on an overarching objective to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by or around 2050.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

UK asset owner now 10 years ahead of net zero target; switches climate engagement focus to auto sector. The CEPB has significantly cut back on exposures to “companies that are not aligning to the transition” to a low-carbon global energy system. On the road to net zero.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Charlotta Dawidowski Sydstrand , Head of ESG at AP7, explains how universal owner s can exert collaborative pressure to drive sustainable outcomes in the global economy. This, says Sydstrand, creates a “ripple effect” in the global economy.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C C and implement the Paris Agreement and will be welcomed by the business community. It underscores the resilience of the Paris Agreement and the power of multilateralism to achieve our shared aims.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 7, 2023

C objective of the Paris Agreement and supported the accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels , coupled with a rapid scaling up of clean energy. A critical issue right now is how we safeguard the freedom of financial institutions to invest in the companies planning for the net zero future. and beyond. C pathways.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Building on foundational work launched last year, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) partnered with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Climate Art to put the document together. C scenario.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Keeping global warming to below 1.5C This will set them on course to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Without nature acting as a carbon sink, global temperatures would already have risen more than 1.5C In addition, nature’s contribution to the global economy could be worth $125 trillion annually.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2024

At a wider, global scale Aviva Investors believes climate t ransition planning – which the UK is set to mandate reporting on – across the whole global economy can provide a series of positive self-reinforcing actions and information flows. Current scenario models are typically long term.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

c) of the Paris Agreement, seems sensible – why would we collectively pursue investments that harm people and the planet? The Paris Agreement stimulated a reckoning to align public and private finance with net zero and climate resilience. But the reality of Article 2.1(c) c) is more complex.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . C within reach, and to transition to a net-zero global economy by 2050 at the latest. These measures are supported by 778 businesses representing US$2.7 Finalize the rules on Article 6.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our process was launched in May in support of the Global Stocktake (GST) process – the UNFCCC led report card on progress since the Paris Agreement. The Synthesis report released last week confirmed what we already knew, “the world is not on track to meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.”

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than one per cent, off projected global emissions in 2030. This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. NDCs submitted this year take only 0.5 C over the century. C increase, so there is hope.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

With the global economy heavily reliant on ocean health, a sustainable future is paramount. To date, the ocean and its ecosystems have provided significant benefits to the global community, including climate regulation, coastal protection, food, employment, recreation and cultural well-being.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In the race to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, many companies are jeopardising success by leaving workers and communities behind. The decarbonisation of our global economy is most likely to succeed in the short timeframe required if those most affected by the transition are brought on the journey.

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Sense and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. It should also help put aviation on a flightpath to net zero by 2050.

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