Climate Action

January 24, 2021

To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things

Bill McKibben

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Behaviour Change, Climate Action, Climate Change, GHG emissions

If one wanted a basic rule of thumb for dealing with the climate crisis, it would be: stop burning things. Human beings have made use of combustion for a very long time, ever since the first campfires cooked the first animals for dinner, allowing our brains to get larger. Now those large brains have come to understand that burning stuff is destroying the stable climate on which civilization depends.

January 21, 2021

Developed nations hugely exaggerate climate adaptation finance for Global South

Climate Change, Adaptation, Climate Action

Rich nations and institutions have been routinely over-reporting funding to protect developing countries from the climate crisis, which is expected to have left climate adaptation funds short by over $20 billion, a report from CARE has found.

January 20, 2021

Global climate action needs trusted finance data

Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto/Getty

Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Goals, Funding, Global South

An agreed system for measuring funding of green projects in poorer nations will be vital to achieving action on climate change in 2021.

January 19, 2021

A ‘Nerve Center’ for Climate in the Biden White House

Lisa Friedman

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Climate Action, Decision-making

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.

January 17, 2021

ESG Investments Could Pick Up Momentum in 2021

Editor

Climate Action, Energy Transition, ESG

As we look to a new year, socially responsible investments that track factors like environmental, social, and governance principles could see greater adoption among financial advisors and investors. “Interest has gone up tremendously in 2020,” Jeffrey Gitterman, head of Gitterman Wealth Management, an RIA that specializes in sustainable investing and provides model portfolios to other wealth management firms, told Think Advisor. “Our climate strategies are the most popular. The transition (to zero emissions) is here and not going away.”

January 17, 2021

António Guterres: 2021 Is the Year to Reconcile Humanity with Nature

António Guterres

Landscapes Forum

Anthropocene, Climate Action, Decision-making

UN Climate Change News, 11 January 2021 – In a virtual address at the ‘One Planet Summit’ for biodiversity hosted by the French government in cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank, UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared 2021 as “the year to reconcile humanity with nature.” He highlighted both the need to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to provide adequate finance to adapt to the impacts of climate change, which include more frequent and more severe incidents of drought, flooding and fires.

January 4, 2021

Net zero pledges rapidly multiply as business turns its attention to the climate crisis

Rachel Millard

Climate Action, Carbon Neutral, Emissions reduction targets

The number of companies pledging to reach net zero tripled during 2020.

January 3, 2021

Christine Lagarde expected to make ECB a climate change pioneer

Martin Arnold and Alexander Vladkov

Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

Climate Action, Europe, Finance sector

Christine Lagarde is expected to make the European Central Bank a pioneer in fighting climate change by slashing its purchases of bonds issued by fossil fuel companies and other heavy carbon emitters, according to a Financial Times poll of economists.

January 2, 2021

Why 2021 could be turning point for tackling climate change

Justin Rowlatt

Getty Images

Climate Action, Climate Change

Countries only have only a limited time in which to act if the world is to stave off the worst effects of climate change. This article offers five reasons why 2021 could be a crucial year in the fight against global warming.

January 1, 2021

Amid 2020’s gloom, there are reasons to be hopeful about the climate in 2021

John Sauven

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