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 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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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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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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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

SDSN is proud to have contributed to Chapter 6 "Transforming food systems" of UNEP's 2022 Emissions Gap Report thanks to our FABLE Consortium scientific director Aline Mosnier. 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.

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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 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

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 31, 2023

Current climate pledges by governments are falling short, with the latest analysis by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) putting the world on track for a temperature rise of between 2.4°C To address the emissions gap and keep the 1.5°C The talks have been deferred to this year’s COP28. C pathway.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

Despite this trend, commentators like Dan Carlin, UNEP FI’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Program Lead, have made the case for further engagement with the fossil fuel industry. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

C objective of the Paris Agreement would of course significantly limit these impacts. As the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) summarises in their Adaptation Gap Report [8], “adapting to climate change makes economic sense” – with the Global Commission on Adaptation estimating a return of US$7.1

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) produced for the Global Commission on Adaptation. Of 167 Nationally Determined Contributions submitted under the Paris Agreement, just 70 include nature-based adaptation actions; the majority of those are in low-income countries.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C C temperature rise by the end of the century, suggesting a need for urgent system-wide transformation to deliver the enormous cuts needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

The ‘State of Finance for Nature in the G20’ report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) called for efforts to plug a US$4.1 However, nature-based solutions play a vital role in our fight against climate change and in financing sustainable development. We need to be supporting both actions.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Investors and companies are increasingly setting climate and nature targets, but once those are in place, they need to be thinking more about how to redirect capital [in line with these goals],” Ivo Mulder , Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told ESG Investor. trillion in 2022.

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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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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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