Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement: Setting Meaningful Goals for the Finance Industrydoi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6431-0_185-1A brief introduction to the status of the international climate negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its latest scientific ...
To achieve the Paris Agreement abatement goals, the use of consumption-based carbon accounting (CBA) as a target base, i.e., as a reference scale for emissions reductions, has potential advantages of fairness, effectiveness, and cost. At the same time, CBA also has rather high political ...
To reach the goals in the Paris Agreement, emissions need to be reduced by at least 40% by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. This is essential for keeping global warming well-below 2°C, preferably under the 1.5°C mark. For SKF to be a part of reaching these goals we have set sci...
Common ground: securing land rights and safeguarding the earth The importance of protecting and expanding indigenous and community ownership of land has been a key element in the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change, and is central to their .....
As an interim step toward 2050, the company also announced a strategy to achieve an absolute reduction of 30 percent in scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 2030. These targets are consistent with efforts to support the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting climate change by achieving net zero for...
commitments to ensure the objectives of the Paris Agreement are met, including increasing the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions, and in the context of our legal duties to clients and unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law (The Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative – NZAMI)....
China's goal of reducing coal use will pose a formidable just transition challenge. It is the global consensus that fossil fuels, especially coal, need to be phased down or phased out for the goals of the Paris Agreement to be accomplished. As the biggest producer and consumer of coa...
Disclaimer: Commitments are made in the expectation that governments will follow through on their own commitments to ensure the objectives of the Paris Agreement are met, including increasing the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions, and in the context of our legal duties to clients ...
Setting emission reduction targets is crucial to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, which outlines the GHG emission reductions that countries have committed to achieve by 2030 or 205020,21. To this end, over 158 countries, collectively responsible for around 88% of global GHG emissions in...
The role of central banks and supervisors in achieving the objectives of the 2015 Paris climate agreement At the Paris “One Planet Summit” in December 2017, eight central banks and supervisors established a Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). Since...