Climate Action

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

[New] In the United States, many state and local climate change plans are built around targets based on outdated climate science, such as 80% emissions reductions by 2050.
[New] Los Angeles has billed its climate plan as a Green New Deal, an approach that's meant to tie decarbonization to economic justice, by creating jobs for people in communities that are harmed by pollution and threatened by climate change.
[New] With the world population expected to grow to over 10 billion people by 2050, coupled with climate change, competition for water resources is rapidly increasing, having a particular impact on agriculture.
[New] The world must reach net zero emissions by 2050 to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial times and avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
[New] Climate Action 100+, a group of more than 500 institutional investors that together manage more than $47 trillion of assets, has asked the world's 161 highest-emitting companies to release their plans for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
[New] Advance global climate progress and Paris Agreement goals by ramping up action in India: The pace of the United States' decarbonization strategy and India's clean energy transition will be critical in order for the world to be compliant with the Paris Agreement.
[New] The world faces existential challenges such as climate change, ecosystem collapse, and nuclear proliferation that will only worsen if the United States, China, and others fail to collaborate.
[New] A new U.S. administration and increased public support to help aviation survive the COVID-19 crisis and tackle climate change could spur a deal.
[New] In 2021 CDC will invest over $1.5bn in companies in Africa and Asia with a focus on fighting climate change, empowering women and creating new jobs and opportunities for millions of people.
[New] Climate change risks and opportunities have come into sharp focus over the last year or so and corporates play a key role in responding to the challenge, including working to achieve alignment with the Paris Agreement.
[New] Building resilient and sustainable infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather and a changing climate will play an integral role in creating jobs and meeting Biden's goal of a net-zero emissions future.
[New] Climate change is going to bring more frequent and stronger heat waves across much of the world, and particularly, it's expected to bring heat waves into places that have never really experienced dangerous heat before.
[New] Given that climate change can exacerbate existing risks of conflict and violence, it is hardly surprising that deliberations in several key UN organs routinely consider the issue of climate-related security risks.
[New] The Federal Reserve has begun incorporating the impacts of global warming into its regulations, including by using climate stress tests and climate scenario analysis to measure banks' vulnerability to climate-related losses.
[New] The rise in global temperatures, linked to increasing pressures on fertile soil, risks jeopardizing food security for the planet.
[New] There is scientific evidence and an economic case demonstrating that by 2030, changes to food and land use systems can help bring climate change under control, and play a role in meeting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement targets on climate change.
[New] With the United States re-engaging on climate change issues in a significant way and the imminent implementation (set for next month) of the European Union's high-level financial disclosure regulations, expect significantly more news in the months to come.
[New] Countries could save millions of lives annually by 2040 if they commit to bolder plans to cut planet-heating emissions and curb global warming in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
[New] Given the Biden administration's focus on climate change and the strategic necessity of projecting and sustaining military power globally, research and development into energy efficiency would seem a perfect fit.
[New] The Bank of England expects its regulated financial institutions to understand, assess, and take a sufficiently long-term view with respect to the financial risks linked to climate change.
[New] Now that Biden's all of government policies on climate change are beginning to take shape, it is not unreasonable to expect that the US could join in an alliance with the EU on carbon border charges.
Democracies face an unprecedented and delicate task when they deal with China, which is both a threat to global norms and an essential partner in tackling global crises such as climate change.
Measures taken now to fight the climate crisis will create more resilient economies and help the recovery from the global pandemic be fair, smart, and green.

Last updated: 21 February 2021

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