GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right. With growing consensus on the gravity of the climate crisis, countries and companies are adopting carbon reduction targets. The question is relevant because there is mounting pressure to take action against the climate crisis. Paolo Natali.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

Venturing into the realm of stocks can be complex, but consider it an exciting exploration, particularly when we delve into the green sector. Understanding Dividend Stocks in the Green Sector What’s the Deal with Dividends in Green Stocks? Hey there, eco-minded investors! Pretty cool, huh?

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Andrew Winston

MAY 26, 2022

(It’s hard to focus on much these days as the world seems in dire shape and the US in particular is unable to tackle any problems – one political party is rapidly moving backwards on women’s rights, guns, climate, inequality, racial equity, voting & democracy, and more. The only solution here is elections.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Aldersgate Group's Josie Murdoch assesses the policy action needed from government to accelerate progress on green finance in the UK. 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for green finance. However, climate and environmental considerations are still not at the heart of the UK's financial system.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

New 'Principles for Paris-alignment' published as corporates face growing criticism over toothless climate pledges. Meanwhile, all types of companies should align all lobbying activity and trade association membership with their climate targets and strategies, it said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

DWP consultation confirms Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-aligned disclosures will be mandatory across the board by 2025. Under the changes, the government will exercise new climate change risk powers contained within the Pension Schemes Bill, which is soon to become law.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Customer expectations, as well as regulation, mean that carbon reduction and broader sustainability will soon be a necessary component and/or driver of growth plans across many industries. But beyond the hard-to-abate sectors it's often assumed there's little to be done that will really move the needle when it comes to carbon reduction.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Pension funds should fire asset managers if they fail to take sufficient action on climate change, and actively work to put an end to 'dirty finance', according to hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn. He added that pension funds have tremendous power to tackle climate change risks. Reducing carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Major food and farming corporations will be seeking to steer conversations in Dubai via an influential coalition: the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) initiative.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday's 'Green Day' package offered the good, the bad, and the ugly of the UK's climate policy programme It was way back in 2010 that the outgoing Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne wrote his infamous letter declaring that "I'm afraid there is no money". That is not to say there is not good news here.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The newly revamped VCM was referenced in the UK government’s long-awaited “Net Zero Strategy”, published just weeks before the COP26 climate summit. Today’s eco-conscious consumer is no stranger to net zero pledges. There are “net zero” pensions, “net zero” fuels, even “net zero” mobile networks. Global Offsets Hub’.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

As the UK's Sustainable Investment and Finance Association celebrates 30 years of existence, CEO James Alexander discusses what is in store for the sector over the next three decades. But sceptics would do well to take stock of how far the sustainable finance sector has come over the last 30 years.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I left the Scottish Exhibition Centre and its network of slightly leaky Climate Enormo Tents on Saturday afternoon, just as COP26 President Alok Sharma declared the Summit had culminated in a 'clean' and 'balanced' text. Or as the Climate Change Committee's Chris Stark put it this morning, there are 98 months to cut emissions by 45 per cent.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Discussions around the framework of Article 6 are under strain at COP27 - and concerns are mounting the outcome could further undermine the credibility of voluntary carbon markets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

As the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement company, with around £270bn assets under administration, our investment portfolio is where we have both the biggest climate-related impact and the greatest exposure to risks and opportunities.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

A number of developing countries are coming forward with ambitious decarbonisation plans, but as Ed King explains, their significance is often too easily ignored. Last month Jamaica submitted a new climate plan to the UN - it garnered little global coverage or praise. Jamaica's plan was not a back-of-fag-packet piece of work.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2020

Asset management giant signals it will vote on climate-related shareholder resolution at 7 May AGM. Jupiter Asset Management has become the latest investor to put pressure on Barclays Bank to phase out the provision of financial services to the fossil fuel sector and utilities that are not aligned with the Paris climate goals.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Amid disheartening and discouraging Covid and climate news, there are a lot of reasons for hope, writes Joel Makower. The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. These are among the developments that will propel us into 2022 and beyond.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Jacob Ainscough at Lancaster University argues the opportunity to link the net zero transition and the levelling up agenda is at risk of being squandered. Economists no longer talk of decarbonisation as a cost ; climate action is now widely seen as an investment. million jobs , dispersed across every village, town and city in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Industry Voice: Delivering net zero is at its heart a challenge of delivering investment across multiple sectors, explains Phoenix Group. Tackling climate change is often presented as a complex challenge, and in many respects that's true. That means the pensions and insurance sector can play a central role in the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government on Monday announced that it plans on awarding hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, beginning this autumn, with Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps recently declaring that he wants to “max out” the UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The price of water - essential for human life, nature, communities and businesses - is often subsidised , reflecting a commonly held belief that everyone should have abundant access to clean water. That makes it difficult for companies to fully evaluate and account for the business risk of supplies drying up as a result of climate change.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. These factors include: Less risk and volatility.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future. Yellen’s to the Institute of International Finance. I first started working on climate change in the 1990s, advising President Clinton as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the run-up to the 1997 Kyoto Conference of Parties. Janet Yellen. Wed, 04/28/2021 - 00:15.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

he COP27 Climate Summit finally closed early on Sunday morning , delivering both an historic deal to introduce a new Loss and Damage fund and recriminations over governments' continuing failure to accept unabated fossil fuels need to be phase out in the coming decades. A Loss and Damage fund is finally on the way.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 24, 2021

Is TCFD a catalyst for transformational climate adaptation? The Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), an initiative of the influential Financial Stability Board (FSB) , offers a framework for disclosure of climate risks. TCFD steers towards carbon exposure and transition risks.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation Jonathan Cook Wed, 06/17/2020 – 00:30 This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. Countries around the world can harness the power of nature to adapt to climate impacts.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk. But a later book of his — "The Fifth Risk" — best explains why we were unprepared for the current pandemic and why we need a different approach to deal with threats such as climate change. . Climate change falls squarely in this category.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Investment Week's Lauren Mason takes the microscope to the Treasury's sweeping new plans to try and accelerate flows of green investment. Investment product disclosure - Creators of investment products will have to report their products' sustainability impact and relevant financial risks and opportunities.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation Nidia Martínez Mon, 02/08/2021 – 00:44 Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings. 1 in three years.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk.

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Business Green

MAY 2, 2022

The former UN climate chief and esteemed academic is the co-chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), a group aiming to establish a framework for how companies can credibly tap carbon removal credits so as to reduce their climate impact. It is a question that occupies much of Rachel Kyte's time.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit Dominic Waughray Mon, 01/25/2021 – 00:30 Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Walmart has been outspoken and press-happy about 'Project Gigaton', its plan to avert the release of a gigaton of greenhouse gases from the global value chain by 2030. Walmart has been outspoken and press-happy about 'Project Gigaton', its plan to avert the release of a gigaton of greenhouse gases from the global value chain by 2030.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S. While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient.

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