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COP Blog: Investing in a lower carbon economy - a year after Paris
17 November 2016Northern Trust
World leaders and scientists are in Morocco at COP22 this week to follow up on the historic climate change agreement a year ago in Paris to reduce carbon emissions. Do environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors know enough now to position portfolios for a lower carbon global economy? -
COP Blog: Getting private investors on board for climate finance
17 November 2016European Investment Bank
Here at COP22 in Marrakesh in the blue and green zones where ministers, financiers, climate experts NGOs and multinationals mingle, the talk is all about how to implement the Paris Agreement - and raise the required financing for low-carbon and adaptation projects. -
COP Blog: Tackling land degradation offers new opportunities for investors
16 November 2016Mirova
It is estimated that two billion hectares of land are already degraded worldwide, and we continue to degrade another 12 million hectares of productive land every year. -
COP blog: Promoting the investor voice on climate finance at COP22
16 November 2016IIGCC
As Morocco's King Mohammed VI joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa yesterday to welcome dignitaries to Bab Ighli the tone was firmly one of collective effort to sustain the 'Spirit of Paris', regardless of who is poised to move into the White House next January. -
COP blog: Big dams must not be allowed to sink the Green Climate Fund
15 November 2016Friends of the Earth
While little discussed at the COP, the channeling and use of climate finance must now take centre stage as the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) prepares to meet next month in Samoa. -
COP blog: Who's got most to lose if the Paris Agreement fails?
15 November 2016Verisk Maplecroft
With Donald Trump's election victory still casting a shadow over events in Marrakesh, representatives will meet this week to further progress the mobilisation of climate finance. -
COP Blog: The Green Climate Fund's key role is to mobilise the private sector
14 November 2016CMIA
After the commitments and headlines of Paris a year ago, COP22 in Marrakesh has to be all about implementation. Faster than anyone expected, the Paris Agreement has already been ratified, but progress on the ground needs to ramp up. -
COP Blog: Sovereign green bonds: the missing link between NDCs and the $100trn debt capital markets
11 November 2016BNP Paribas IP
After the ratification of the Paris Agreement, we expect COP22 in Marrakesh to focus on the transparency of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), compliance and means of implementation. -
COP blog: The price of not investing in water
10 November 2016European Investment Bank
This week in Marrakesh I'll have water very much on my mind as my colleagues and I join experts and partners from the world's development banks and international financial institutions to pin down just how we are going to put the Paris Agreement into practice and to assess our progress since last year. -
COP blog: Words must now drive action
09 November 2016IIGCC
As a fortnight of crucial UN climate talks get underway in Marrakesh, IIGCC institutional investor members are optimistic about the political momentum that has accrued around the climate agenda over recent weeks