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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - How do we Decarbonise Shipping?
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince 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 their second symposium of Alternative Low and Zero Carbon Fuels for Shipping on the 21st of October. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur varied panel of local Marine industry experts will lead the conversation with a wide range of viewpoints from Engineering and the developing technologies to the Maritime regulatory Frameworks\, Port infrastructure and Alternative Marine Fuels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe aim of the session is to hold an engaging technical discussion around the challenges to the Scottish Marine community\, and what we can do as part of the global Green Transition. This will take the format of a moderated discussion\, and attendees get the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to the debate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by RoyInstNavArch
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/panel-discussion-how-do-we-decarbonise-shipping/
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CATEGORIES:Climate
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SUMMARY:Asking the big question: does ESG investing enhance returns?
DESCRIPTION: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. Join us as Whitney Sweeney\, Sustainability Investment Director\, speaks with Duncan Lamont\, Head of Strategic Research\, and Margot Von Aesch\, Head of Sustainable Investment Management\, to discuss what academic research and observation tells us about how ESG investing affects returns\, to explore whether sustainable companies trade on more expensive valuations\, and to consider how this may create opportunities going forward. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by SchrodersUS
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/asking-the-big-question-does-esg-investing-enhance-returns/
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SUMMARY:Carbon Markets after COP27: Emerging\, Growing and Maturing?
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 the potential convergence of the voluntary carbon market and the carbon market set out by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArticle 6 of the Paris Agreement would standardize legislation enabling countries to achieve their national climate targets by buying carbon offset credits. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a crucial feature of the Paris agreement and were one of the hot topics at this year’s COP27. NDCs are a type of pledge: they represent the climate actions that countries will take to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The hope is that international rules backed by the entire world could attract large private capital flows to carbon-reducing projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAltogether\, the voluntary carbon market experienced some ups and downs this year. There is still a lot to be done to reach mainstream utilization. Together with experts from the ECOTA\, we will elaborate on the main developments of the VCM this year\, outcomes of COP27 and any hurdles to scale carbon markets. In this context\, our panelists will also discuss potential trends and carbon market developments in 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat have been the main developments of the voluntary carbon market in 2022?\n\n\n\nWhat is the impact of COP27 on the voluntary carbon market?\n\n\n\nHow will the voluntary carbon market grow in 2023?\n\n\n\nCan blockchain technology provide a foundation for scaling the voluntary carbon market and carbon market mechanisms under the Paris Agreement?\n\n\n\nCan the compliance and voluntary carbon markets evolve together in order to scale truly global carbon markets?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by fsblockchain
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/carbon-markets-after-cop27-emerging-growing-and-maturing/
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CATEGORIES:Climate
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SUMMARY:The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration: Cities Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Tweets by UNEP
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/the-un-decade-of-ecosystem-restoration-cities-challenge/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Environmental,United Nations
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SUMMARY:Stay Ahead of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 area economic forecasts and will soon publish first-of-its-kind regional climate change scenarios that cover hundreds of variables across the U.S.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar will discuss the importance of accounting for climate change in long-term projections\, converting key risk factors into regional forecasts\, and critical insights on how climate change can affect various parts of the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by MoodysAnalytics
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/stay-ahead-of-the-economic-impacts-of-climate-change/
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CATEGORIES:Climate
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SUMMARY:Greening the Blue Report 2022 Launch
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat: 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\, as well as more dynamic individual entity information that is provided by the Report’s data tables and entity-specific webpages.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn alignment with the Strategy for Sustainability Management in the United Nations 2020-2030\, Phase I: Environmental Sustainability in the Area of Management\, the Reportprovides UN system-wide and entity-level data on environmental impact areas: greenhouse gas emissions\, climate neutrality\, waste\, air pollution\, water and wastewater\, and biodiversity. As well as management functions: environmental governance\, procurement\, and human resources.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNEP
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/greening-the-blue-report-2022-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Climate,Environmental
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Africa: Investment\, Innovation\, and the Future of Global Trade
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne 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 now positioned to advance key sectors like Energy\, Mining\, and Agriculture higher up the value chain. What is required from investors and international business leaders to reshape global supply chains towards sustainability goals and support the transition to technologies such as batteries and hydrogen? How is the Namibian government creating policy frameworks to encourage foreign investment into these sectors and beyond? And what do investors from the US and across the world need to understand about the potential for the African continent to deliver significant value across emerging sectors of the global economy and help scale these innovations around the world? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by BloombergLive
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/sustainable-africa-investment-innovation-and-the-future-of-global-trade/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Climate,Environmental,ESG Investing,Sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221213T131500
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SUMMARY:Greener cities\, cooler planet\, healthier people: unleashing the power of urban nature
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCity 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 billion city residents will face extreme heat and by 2100\, cities around the world could warm by 4°C on average\, exposing the growing urban population to conditions that will damage human health\, productivity\, and quality of life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo make peace with nature and beat the rising heat\, we need to design and redesign our urban environments with nature in mind. The good news is that protecting and restoring natural ecosystems can help improve quality of life in cities. Nature-based solutions can provide natural cooling\, better air and water quality\, and healthier communities\, but the benefits and ecosystem services that biodiversity provides need to be better understood and leveraged to increase implementation and bring about change at a local and global level.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis session will focus on the role of nature as an adaptation tool\, and how national and local governments can provide access to cooling while mitigating climate risks and supporting biodiversity. The discussion will enable exchanges between global experts\, countries and cities on the opportunities to catalyze restoration in the framework of urban planning. It will include announcements on cities’ commitments to the Nature for Cool Cities Challenge\, and on global collaboration in the framework of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. A dedicated exchange will take place on nature financing\, and on the latest efforts to track urban nature investments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNEP
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/greener-cities-cooler-planet-healthier-people-unleashing-the-power-of-urban-nature/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Climate,Environmental,United Nations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T113000
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SUMMARY:COP15 - Call for Financing Nature for Sustainable Cities and Regions
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCities 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRestoring and protecting nature is fundamental to addressing the impacts of climate change\, bringing multiple benefits not only to ecosystems but also to the health and well-being of urban citizens and the economy. Urban nature-based solutions are both critical and feasible steps that cities can initiate right now to contribute to global biodiversity goals and increase resilience to local environmental risks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut to unleash the power of nature in cities\, investments need to grow rapidly. In this press conference\, champion Mayors from around the world will deliver a call for increased financing for nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based approaches in cities and regions\, on behalf of 15 champion cities. A new UNEP project to support them will be announced. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNEP
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/cop15-call-for-financing-nature-for-sustainable-cities-and-regions/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Climate,Environmental,Sustainable Finance,United Nations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T080000
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 and the Water Sector
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCOVID-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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis report analyzes and describes ways in which the pandemic has affected the water sector\, and how wastewater has the potential to act as a sentinel to detect the still ongoing and future pandemics. In addition\, the report presents examples and case studies from around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis report helps policymakers\, governments\, and potential donors to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the water sector\, how to address the current gaps\, and trigger future action\, especially on monitoring and surveillance of wastewater. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNEP
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/covid-19-and-the-water-sector/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Environmental,United Nations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T113000
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SUMMARY:A Deep Dive into the E in ESG
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow 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 and biodiversity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we explore the materiality factors of the Environment pillar and discuss how digital tools can help you can collect\, track\, and report environment metrics and improve environment performance. We’ll also look at Scope 1\, Scope 2\, and Scope 3 emissions\, and how you can engage your supply chain for accurate and transparent environmental disclosure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by BM_ESG_Gensuite
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/a-deep-dive-into-the-e-in-esg/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Environmental
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T090000
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SUMMARY:United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2022 #COP15
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (NP-MOP 4) in Kunming\, China is being held in two parts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe conference will see the adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The framework provides a strategic vision and a global roadmap for the conservation\, protection\, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems for the next decade. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lead-up to the Conference and related meetings provides the global community with further opportunities to galvanize efforts at all levels to build a better future in harmony with nature\, and to continue efforts to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The CBD Secretariat will continue to monitor further developments regarding the ongoing uncertainties caused by the pandemic and announce any further changes that may become necessary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe main objective of the Conference is to adopt the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Draft One of the framework\, released in July 2021\, builds on lessons learned from the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. It recognizes that urgent policy action globally\, regionally and nationally is required to transform economic\, social and financial models so the trends that have exacerbated biodiversity loss will stabilize by 2030 and allow for the recovery of natural ecosystems\, with net improvements by 2050. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNBiodiversity
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/united-nations-biodiversity-conference-2022-cop15/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Environmental
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