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January 22, 2024
Low boardroom understanding and capacity constraints blocking TNFD adoption, says non-profit
The adoption of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework by 320 companies and financial institutions at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting was heralded...
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January 18, 2024
‘Zero carbon’ biomass power plants are ‘accounting trick’, says think-tank
An Institute of Economic Affairs report says the UK government’s decision to convert coal-fired power plants to biomass is flawed as it ignores emissions from...
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January 16, 2024
‘New’ climate denial posts growing on social media, non-profit says
Narratives casting doubt on climate solutions, the climate movement and climate science have grown over the past six years, research from the Center for Countering...
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January 16, 2024
WEF: climate disasters will cause millions of extra deaths by 2050
Flooding will be the leading cause of climate-related deaths by 2050 followed by droughts, according to a report by the World Economic Forum
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January 16, 2024
Companies using renewable energy certificates could risk greenwashing, says non-profit
Long-term power purchase agreements and ‘hourly matching’, not renewable energy certificates, should be the focus of companies’ efforts
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January 15, 2024
PwC: most CEOs have not incorporated climate risk into financial planning
Less than half of CEOs worldwide have made progress on incorporating climate risk into their financial planning – and over a third have no intention...
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January 12, 2024
Investors are ‘flying blind’ to the risk of climate litigation, academics warn
Researchers at the University of Oxford find that investors’ current climate risk assessments fail to account for a growing number of climate lawsuits
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January 11, 2024
Close ‘policy gap’ or miss COP28 renewables target, IEA warns governments
Under existing policies and market conditions, global renewable capacity would increase 2.5 times by 2030 compared with today – falling short of the COP28 target to triple renewables
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January 10, 2024
IPCC should consider ‘post-growth’ net zero pathway, researchers say
A pathway to net zero that does not assume continued GDP growth should be considered by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say US-led academics A group of researchers,...
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January 9, 2024
SFDR has 'incentivised decarbonisation' of sustainable funds, says European non-profit
The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation has lowered portfolio-linked carbon emissions in sustainable funds, according to a European Corporate Governance Institute report
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January 4, 2024
UK government pressed over ‘lack of urgency’ on deforestation
The cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has published a report urging greater action from the government to tackle global deforestation
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