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About the Event Since COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, the topic of Climate change has been high on the agenda. Within the marine industry the efforts to reduce the impact on the climate from our industry via Greenhouse Gas emissions and other pollutants has been pushed and lead by the International Maritime Organisation, who held...
ESG has been much in the news of late, both with interest and skepticism. Beyond the need to properly define ESG and the spectrum of various approaches available to investors interested in sustainability, the key question that everyone wants to answer is whether such investing can enhance returns and how its impact can be quantified....
About the Event The COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh proved that digital technologies can enhance carbon markets and be a valuable agent for change. For example, the Climate Warehouse is a World Bank initiative that aims to build an end-to-end digital ecosystem for carbon markets: based on blockchain technology. Consequently, there is an increasing consensus between...
About the Event The long-term economic impacts of climate change have been top of mind for much of the world in recent years, and regulators in the U.S. are taking notice. To better prepare banks and other financial stakeholders to manage these risks, Moody’s Analytics has now incorporated climate change into its state and metro...
About the Event What: The 2022 edition of the Report reveals the UN system accelerated efforts on environmental governance and environmental training in 2021. It highlights the 2021 environmental impacts of 307,000 personnel in 53 reporting entities across Headquarters, field offices and operations on the ground. It is composed of the 2021 data highlights, which are based on UN system-wide results,...
About the Event One of the great economic challenges across Africa and the Global South has been how to leverage natural resources and human capital toward widespread industrialization, entrepreneurship, and job creation. As emerging markets worldwide enter a new era of hyper-industrialization driven by advanced technologies and a focus on sustainability, countries like Namibia are...
About the Event City life is becoming the default human experience. While being engines for development, exchange and opportunity, cities and their expected growth are also exacerbating some of the world’s most serious environmental challenges, including rising temperatures, biodiversity loss and land use change. Cities will have to handle increasing climate risks: by 2050, 1.6...
About the Event Cities are on the frontline of managing the direct socio-economic impacts of climate change and ecosystem loss. Today, 4.4 billion people live in cities, and 1.4 billion of these people already face high climate risks. Restoring and protecting nature is fundamental to addressing the impacts of climate change, bringing multiple benefits not...
About the Event COVID-19 and the Water Sector is a technical report and result of a project implemented jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the water sector with a focus on wastewater. This report analyzes and describes ways in which the pandemic...
About the Event How do your organization’s operations and that of your supply chain affect the environment? In Part 2 of our Comprehensive ESG Masterclass webinar series, ESG experts will address this central question, breaking down the key components of your environmental footprint including greenhouse gas emissions, water use, waste and pollution, and land use...
About the Event The UN Biodiversity Conference (Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 10), and the Fourth meeting of the Conference of the...
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