We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A failure of carbon markets now would slow humanity’s path to net zero emissions and derail financial innovation in other ecosystem services, María Mendiluce writes. A failure of carbon markets now would slow humanity’s path to net zero emissions and derail financial innovation in other ecosystem services.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

The proposed solution for net zero targets and progress aims to improve transparency and accountability, but will need to consider existing guidance. But there is still room for hope that net zero commitments – and subsequent progress on decarbonisation – can be transparent, aligned and ambitious.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Despite the precariousness of the pathway to net zero, COP26 generated a renewed sense of urgency and optimism as to how to support emerging markets and deal with heavy greenhouse gas emitters. Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2023

The standard was developed after the failure of a tailings facility at Brumadinho, Brazil in 2019, causing 272 deaths, through an independent process convened by ICMM, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects. UNEP is working with national institutions and FIs to strengthen domestic regulatory frameworks in order to address this challenge.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

The present global food system is broken,” says Alastair Cooper, Head of Venture at Cibus Capital, which channels investment to solutions and innovations in sustainable food and agriculture. At the heart of the European Green Deal is the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy, which aims to make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally friendly.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The six finalist teams presented their innovations to a panel of esteemed judges in Santa Rosa, Calif., The world-class panel of judges for the 2022 Innovation Challenge event included: Juan Pablo Celis Garcia, Youth Engagement Specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). on October 29, 2022. “It

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At COP26, the FABLE Argentina team participated in the side event ' Is it possible to achieve carbon neutrality for the AFOLU sector in Argentina? ', hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In January, an investor-led initiative was launched to address systemic risks in the mining sector to ensure a just transition to net zero, partly in reaction to a string of mining-related disasters that have generated despair and distrust from local communities and untold environmental damage.

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Development UNEP Waste Net Zero 52

Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

In 2005, a group of investment managers organised under the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) commissioned law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to publish a report , ‘A Legal Framework for the Integration of ESG Issues into Institutional Investment’. How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Extreme climate-related events can reduce a property’s value by between 5-20%, according to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Last year, UNEP FI published guidance outlining the kinds of resilient buildings needed to cope with new climate extremes. Targeted investments.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

EDITOR’S NOTE The analysis results along with insights from insurance regulators and other stakeholders will be presented in a webinar at 2 p.m. Metrics and targets was the area with the weakest responses across all lines, with only 193 reports providing information and very few encompassing a comprehensive set of climate-related metrics.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

This section of our 2022 Sustainability Report presents an overview of how and why our operations release methane emissions, describes our efforts to mitigate these emissions, and shares our perspective on regulations and industry initiatives to reduce the amount of methane released into the atmosphere through oil and gas operations.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In January this year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) cast doubt on some of the more extravagant claims made for the ‘green-ness’ of natural gas. Crises never go to waste “Post-Ukraine, this view became very present in the EU,” says Holder. It now amounts to some 400 million tonnes per year.

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