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January 21, 2021

Secretary-General welcomes US return to Paris Agreement on Climate Change

President Biden signed an executive order at the White House just hours after being sworn in, to reverse the previous administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 accord, which seeks to limit global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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 20, 2021

The state of the climate in 2021

Isabelle Gerretsen

Getty Images

Climate Change

After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021.

January 20, 2021

Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast

Peter Giger

REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Climate Change, COVID-19, Decision-making

The speed and scale of the response to COVID-19 by governments, businesses and individuals seems to provide hope that we can react to the climate change crisis in a similarly decisive manner – but history tells us that humans do not react to slow-moving and distant threats. Our evolution has selected the “fight or flight” instinct to deal with environmental change, so rather like the metaphor of the frog in boiling water, we tend to react too little and too late to gradual change.

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 18, 2021

HSBC in dock over climate change policy

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Climate Change, Finance sector, Investment

The Jesuits in Britain are one of 15 institutional investors with a combined US$2.4 trillion in assets under management that have filed a climate change resolution at HSBC, alongside 117 individual shareholders.

January 18, 2021

2020: The Year When Crises Converged

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Climate Change, Disease, Ecological Impacts, Economic Impacts, risk, UN SDGs, uncertainty

In 2020, Asia-Pacific saw the collision of climate extremes and COVID-19 transmission create cascading disasters with wide-ranging impacts on sectors, economies, and populations.

January 17, 2021

ESG Investments Could Pick Up Momentum in 2021

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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.

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