Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” Five things world leaders must accomplish at COP28 Though the underlying problems and solutions are perennial, every COP has specific burning issues that, if successfully addressed, can lay the groundwork for progress in the future.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One recent review in Science estimated that only 6% of 89 million carbon offsets issued to 26 projects under one of the voluntary crediting standards would be associated with real carbon reductions. Gray: Very little financing – offsets or otherwise – has actually flowed into forest jurisdictions or communities in the tropics.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That changed this year with the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action , which was signed by 134 world leaders. The task of producing enough safe, nutritious, and environmentally sustainable food remains unresolved. That includes transforming our food systems. In the U.S.,

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 10, 2022

The sustainable business world enters 2022 flying high, as the world focuses with increasing urgency on many of its core issues: sustainable finance, the circular economy, clean energy, climate tech and more. Jan 22, 2022, noon-1 pmRegister here. In this 15th… Read more →

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Frontiers

APRIL 6, 2023

million collective views, scientists explored topics and advanced fields, including sustainable aviation fuels , marine ecosystem restoration , renewable energy solutions , and sustainable urban infrastructure. With more than 1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A closer look at the facts shows that big banks and investment firms are still financing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. EN: First, it would be helpful if you could explain how ESG investments differ from other sustainability investment strategies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations. Ratcheting up climate finance from richer nations.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2021

Stanford University announced that it has issued $375 million in bonds with dual climate and sustainability designations, marking a first for U.S. Proceeds from the offering will be used to finance campus construction and renovation projects. Read the full story at ESG Today. higher education institutions. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2022

With indirect control over so much farmland, Tyson has an opportunity—and the responsibility—to ensure that that land is farmed sustainably. Last June, the company reported that it set up a sustainability pilot program for only 408,000 acres. Owen brings up an important issue. It fell woefully short.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

As I watched my family and community members get sick, a harsh reality dawned on me: Even though I was working full-time on climate issues, I was forced to watch a harmful extractive industry poison my community – and I could do nothing to stop it. The current Sustainable Jobs Act is a plan to have a plan. It was terrifying.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

It is not the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in UN conventions on three major environmental issues: biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. More financing options and assistance would help, she said. One is rather obscure: the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

PennVEST's in-person and virtual events offer attendees a wide range of information that provides context around the funding topic and tools to help provide financing estimates. Why PennVEST financing? How do I apply for financing? Event participants will learn answers to the following questions: How can PennVEST help?

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Law and Environment

JUNE 28, 2021

1187 would also establish the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee, (SFAC) a permanent body that would have no more than 20 members and that would advise the SEC on ESG metrics, standards, and disclosure. Leadership at the SEC recently signaled that the agency will make ESG reporting binding on SEC-listed companies.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off. Meanwhile, regulatory changes since the last decade have prompted companies and institutional investors to set up sustainability or ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) departments, which require staff. Photo credit: Cynthia Lee / Alamy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As a result, leadership on this issue from the Senate will help set the pace for securing rules that enable the federal government to require companies to disclose the climate risks of their investments and create plans to allocate funds in a manner that is consistent with Canada’s climate commitments. You can read more here.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 2, 2021

This Executive Order showcases a dramatic change in how the Biden Administration’s stance towards climate-finance and environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-based investments will differ from the previous administration. What does the Executive Order do?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

of the Paris Agreement establishes a “Global Goal on Adaptation” (GGA), committing Parties to the tasks of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate response in the context of the temperature goal.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

PennVEST issued a Request for Proposal on June 30, 2023 for competitive bids to make these reductions. The goal of the Clean Water Procurement Program is to incentivize best management practices to reduce nutrients flowing into the Chesapeake Bay using a 'pay for performance' financing strategy," said PennVEST Executive Director, Robert Boos.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Flexible Technical Assistance (TA): If a community is interested in assistance to gather initial data on environmental or energy justice issues and learn how to apply for often complex federal programs, they can get free technical assistance from newly funded EJ Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (TCTACs).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2023

On top of water quality, the grade incorporates data on utility finances, operations, and customer complaints. These annual letter grades are a step in the right direction to increasing transparency and accountability and, ultimately, to increasing water system sustainability.” Forty-one percent of water systems earned an A grade.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This programme should mobilise “at least €1 trillion of sustainable investments ” until 2030. The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. The JTF composes the 1 st pillar.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

In this plan, GCF Task Force members are issuing a clear vision of their realities and needs, as well as an urgent call for recognition and partnership to reduce deforestation and improve people’s lives in forested regions. Finance, Investment, and the Private Sector. Government and Public Policies.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Change in Fund Financing – From Private to Public. The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The political story behind this change in financing has a main character: the Wyoming congressional delegation. Photo © U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

After months of research and interviews with dozens of authorities on five continents, WASH Within Reach unravels the complexity of a global sector that now spends over $20 billion a year and is on its way to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene for everyone on Earth by 2030.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a special episode of Speaking of Water authors Giulio Boccaletti and Parag Khanna interview each other about their new books that are capturing attention around the world and provoking debate about borders, conflicts, and what sustainability may look like for the human race. But we are still dealing with, again, the human geography issue.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. Commissions generally aim to advance international debate on hard issues, typically when other bodies are constrained in their ability to do so.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

I was turned down for financing by the agency that was running the program for the state, and I paid for it by myself.”. New laws make it easier for communities to access state financing for water infrastructure — Michigan Radio. The University of Michigan receives $53 million to continue its work on Great Lakes sustainability issues.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 10, 2023

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) We recently met with Ryan Covington and Michael Byrd, co-founders of Skylight Law , who offered their expertise on early-stage carbon credit projects and forward financing. In contrast to traditional transactions, forward financing agreements are more prescriptive.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

Water utilities, irrigation districts, the energy sector, and other organizations need to establish or increase collaboration at all scales to share data and information and to finance, build, and operate water supply infrastructure. Reduce water use in all sectors, especially agriculture, to sustainable levels. Water conservation.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. Ted’s world-leading research project on the governance of geoengineering examines law and policy issues presented by solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 4, 2021

This unfair capital subsidy stymies climate progress by siphoning investment from profitable green building including net zero projects, for non sustainable carbon polluting projects. The matter is even more acute when seeking financing to green the more than 5 million existing commercial buildings in the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission Allison Herren Lee, offered insight into the future direction of mandatory climate change disclosures and new ESG regulation, when she directed the Division of Corporation Finance to enhance its focus on climate related disclosure in public company filings.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The second paper published in September is Sustainability-linked Derivatives: KPI Guidelines. In this paper, ISDA offers suggested guidance on drafting key performance indicators (KPIs) for sustainability-linked derivatives (SLDs). Click here for the paper. KPIs measure compliance of SLDs to specified ESG objectives.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

There are also environmental issues as many studies have shown the company to be the world’s biggest plastic polluter. Apart from some empty promises such as that climate change is an issue they take seriously, there is not much in it, and not a single word related to any kind of ethical policy sponsors should adhere to.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities. Sustaining funding for these programs is vital to continuing to build a more resilient and agile food system.

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