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? Alterra’s $30B bridge for climate financing #176

Climate Tech VC

The first few days of COP have ushered in a wave of major announcements and funding pledges. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B Happy Monday!    And happy COPing to those on the ground in Dubai!

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Carbon offset program #1: Renewable energy.

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'More frequent and more deadly': How the escalating climate crisis is impacting global livelihoods

Business Green

Ahead of UN General Assembly meetings this week, and COP 27 in November, leaders especially of rich polluting countries must live up to their promises to cut emissions," she added. "We We cannot fix the climate crisis without fixing the systemic inequalities in our food and energy systems. This is an ethical obligation, not charity.".

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Community climate action is critical - but it needs patient, flexible and affordable finance to scale

Business Green

The mainstream finance sector is missing out on a major opportunity to tackle climate change by supporting community energy and climate initiatives, writes Ethex CEO Lisa Ashford. Lisa Ashford is CEO of ethical investment platform Ethex. It's hard to avoid a news story related to climate change at the moment.

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Brexit means. trade barriers

Business Green

This reality was highlighted this week by a new report from verification platform Compare Ethics , which calculates how the EU's sweeping Green Deal package of rules and regulations could impact £193bn of UK exports a year. As Compare Ethics argued, the EU Green Deal is not going anywhere. Again, this should all be obvious.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

GreenBiz

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the folks who organize the annual COP events — defines “climate-related risks” as those: …created by a range of hazards. The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. Shell vowed to appeal, which could take years.

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Shell and the new era of climate risk

Business Green

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the folks who organise the annual COP events - defines "climate-related risks" as those: ". The implications of this court-ordered corporate climate goal go well beyond the energy sector. created by a range of hazards. Shell vowed to appeal, which could take years.