3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

The Sector Standard for Coal enables comprehensive and comparable disclosure on: How companies respond to climate change mitigation demands , as reflected in the Paris Agreement, including plans to transition away from coal mining.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

The global economy relies on the health of the ocean, says Dennis Fritsch, Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy Finance at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). UNEP FI is working towards integrating the use of sustainable finance practices in support of ocean health by the global financial community.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

There is a 'massive gap between rhetoric and reality' that must be closed by new climate pledges being drafted under the Paris Agreement, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. ClimateWatch reports that while 193 out of 197 countries have ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, covering 94.6%

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Chris Hall

JULY 16, 2024

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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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Founded in April 2021 by UNEP FI, the NZBA has 143 members overseeing US$74 trillion in capital. trillion towards fossil fuel expansion since the 2015 Paris Agreement. More than 50% of NZBA’s members had to vote and two thirds of votes cast had to be in favour for the updates to pass. billion from Barclays.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 Emissions Gap Report – aptly titled ‘Broken Record’ – clearly states that the world is a long way from limiting global warming to 1.5°C Adaptation bonds are among the potential vehicles for private investment, but policy action is still needed at COP28.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Says Neil Burgess, Chief Scientist at UNEP-WCMC: “ Nature Map is a crucial new tool that can help to guide policies that tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together. Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success.

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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. Here too, the skills of lobbyists are urgently sought, due to a UN agreement that member-governments will finalise a global treaty on plastic pollution by the end of next year.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2021

The Report features 50 game-changing projects led by young people, allowing them to showcase their work, and providing them with the opportunity to draw interest from potential supporters.

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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 this is not widely recognised.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 ‘ State of Finance for Nature ’ report suggested that investments in nature-based solutions (NbS) to date have been underwhelming. Worse even: almost US$7 trillion are invested globally each year in activities that have a negative impact on nature – the equivalent to 7% of the global GDP.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

limit suggested in the Paris Agreement requires comprehensive action by all signatories. It will be led and co-chaired by the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the President of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The UNFCCC synthesis report recognises the need for systems transformation in a way that the Paris Agreement has “never articulated before”, according to Levin.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Speaking in New York , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, noted that ‘30×30’ is just one of 21 elements of the draft framework, and urged governments to go beyond commitments to “hold each other and ourselves to account”. But not his attitude to business. The post Take Five: Fewer Fans for GFANZ appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says: “This vulnerability is driven by the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic growth in the continent. UNEP wants to see more investment diverted towards supporting African countries in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This is the case in Africa.”. Increasing concern.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pace of NZBA members’ transition efforts has also been subject to criticism, with research suggesting tens of billions of dollars has been funnelled into fossil fuel companies by signatories. The NZBA’s latest progress report on members’ net zero transition will be released shortly.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As the world experiences record global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions, the latest Emissions Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) found that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5–2.9°C For the 1.5°C C goal, emissions need to be cut by 42%.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With adaptation finance flows remaining dangerously low to meet climate goals, has COP28 made a difference? Developed countries have also been asked to prepare a report on doubling by COP29.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag reportedly said at COP that she didn’t know whether far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders, who is trying to form a governing coalition in the Netherlands, will be able to implement some of his pledges, such as exiting the Paris Agreement or dismantling green funds.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“This year showed that climate change is an immediate direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. This number has now hit 136, although ambition varies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2023

Speaking at ESG Investor’s inaugural Stewardship Summit, UNEP FI’s Carlin says transition finance flows to developing economies are too low to meet net zero targets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since a breakthrough at COP20 in Lima , the role of non-state actors – including cities, states, regions, companies, investors and foundations – in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has been a tentative, but long-fought-for journey in support of efforts to keep global average temperatures below 2°C, in line (..)

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 3, 2017

SDG Global Advocate Dr. Alaa Murabit and UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim also provided keynote remarks along with several panels focused on SDG implementation. This event was specifically designed to collect cutting edge research that will be critical to helping the world stay within the 2-degree limit, as defined in the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 28, 2023

The approach is also designed to allow organisations to signal their alignment to global policy goals, such as the recently negotiated Global Biodiversity Framework much as they are now doing with climate reporting and net zero transition planning aligned to the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

The NZIA and NZAOA are part of GFANZ, which was set up by UN Climate Envoy Mark Carney, and requires members to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. “The question is whether GFANZ and its alliances will show some spine and stand up against the attacks and ratchet up the level of ambition they expect (..)

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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

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report , more than 1,500 cases had been filed in 38 countries by July 2020. The number of cases is widely recognised as having doubled since 2015.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

There’s no room for failure According to UNEP, nature-based solutions are needed to provide up to a third of the mitigation required by 2030 to keep the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C C in reach. Nature-based solutions can deliver up to 12.5 gigatons of climate mitigation annually by 2030.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

trillion AUM. “The alliance is doing exactly what it set out to do ,” Remco Fischer, Climate Lead at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), told ESG Investor. Now that the rubber has hit the road, we are showing [how] promises have led to targets and targets have led to members taking action.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In this session, the Council will present engineering solutions for the energy transition and some key recommendations to serve as critical engineering inputs to COP negotiations.

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Impakter

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Impakter How Biomimicry Can Solve the Environmental Crisis In trying to “get ahead” in our evolutionary drive to survive, the majority of humans have cut corners, denied their biological identity and consequently, fallen out of sync with our natural environment.

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