The FINANCIAL — With an ever more ambitious global green agenda coming into focus, states, markets, blocs and businesses are working to go carbon-neutral in time to keep world temperature rises from exceeding 2C and, preferably, the more ambitious target of 1.5C.
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The FINANCIAL — Mercer, a global leader in redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being, announced the launch of climate transition analytics and advice for institutional investors who want to transition to a
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The FINANCIAL — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed a new partnership with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) to encourage commercial banks in Asia to adopt strategies and targets to become greener. The signing of the agreement
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The FINANCIAL — An e-learning course for journalists to improve the reporting skills in the field of climate change: this is the goal of the project developed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and COPEAM. This free professional training will be open to
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The FINANCIAL — Capital market participants are attaching greater importance to sustainable finance than a year ago, even as issuers and investors have had to navigate unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of investors and three-quarters of issuers
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The FINANCIAL — Recent heatwave hitting Antarctica Islands caused 20% of the snow to melt. These short-term heat waves can have long-lasting consequences. The Antarctic Ice Sheet lost around three trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017. On February 6, 2020,
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The FINANCIAL — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of heat stress in several coral regions, increasing the chances of another major bleaching event. The iconic reef, which runs 2,300 kilometres down Australia’s north eastern coast has only just begun to
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The FINANCIAL — Amazon’s chief executive and the world’s wealthiest man Jeff Bezos announced on Monday, that he will commit $10 billion to fund scientists, activists and NGOs to help preserve and protect the natural world. About launching the Bezos Earth Fund,
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