We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They must also be “additional” (meaning the emission reductions would not have happened otherwise), “permanent” (to avoid the risk of reversals or to have measures in place if those risks are present) and avoid “double counting” (meaning, having the same credit be issued, claimed or used by more than one party). C in reach.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 19, 2021

To stop the decline of nature and meet the Paris Agreement objectives, strategies need to be designed and implemented for better managing land use for agriculture, infrastructure, biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, water provision, and other needs.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We quickly went from the positivity of COP26 into 2022, which has presented a range of challenges for us all,” said Neil Brown, head of equities at GIB Asset Management. Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C Beast from the east.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. The official verdict was clear. C of climate change by 2100. C in realistic reach.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

The draft implementation plan will outline specific objectives, deliverables and timelines to enhance the integrity of voluntary commitments and their contributions to the Paris Agreement, identify systemic barriers faced by non-Party stakeholders, and improve transparency regarding the systemic impact of those who have not made or are failing to deliver (..)

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

To accelerate this transition, UNEP has developed a Land Use Positive Impact Hub to support banks, asset owners and fund managers to determine how to measure the positive environmental and social (E&S) impacts of their land-use investments. Of the 51 climate-focused funds, representing US$30 billion AUM, only 10% were Paris aligned.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

COP28 has been buffeted by controversy since the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was announced as host, with concerns that the country’s fossil fuel interests would jeopardise the meagre progress made since the Paris Agreement. The European Union (EU) bloc has outlined the importance of ‘scaling up climate ambition to keep the 1.5°C

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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. InfluenceMap was founded in 2015 ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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