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“Green New Deal” Plan Includes Vast Changes to Industry
January 09, 2019
Tom Elliott of Grabien examines the plan championed by newly elected House of Representatives Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a “Green New Deal,” which echoes the comprehensive UN Sustainable Development Goals in targeting a vast reorganization of American industry in pursuit of social and environmental goals.
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UN, Partners Host Event on “Investment-Ready” Climate Projects
January 09, 2019
The UN Development Programme, the World Bank, and consulting company World Climate Ltd organized an inaugural “Investment Conference of Parties (COP)” at the recent UN climate summit in Poland pushing global and regional investors to fund projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change.
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UN Report Examines National Plastics Strategies
January 09, 2019
The UN Environment Programme has produced a report describing national efforts across the globe to limit and regulate the manufacture, sale, and use of so-called “single-use” plastics and microplastics to help guide research on future measures to combat the production and use of such plastics.
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NGO Rates European Asset Owners on Climate Action
January 08, 2019
The environmental activist organization WWF recently published a report rating European owners of large assets on their efforts to align their portfolios with the goals of the UN’s Paris climate pact, while calling for the creation of “harmonised frameworks” requiring climate disclosure in the investment industry.
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UN Body Ramps up Pressure on Companies to Set Emissions Targets
January 08, 2019
The UN Global Compact has called on businesses to aspire to “a new level of ambition” in setting their “science-based targets” for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in pursuit of the global climate change agenda and called for all corporate climate action to comply with the UN’s “sustainability” and human rights goals.