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  • Net Zero Asset Alliance paper maps out Paris Alignment for high‐emitting sectors

    10 December 2020

    The Net Zero Asset Alliance in conjunction with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) has published the 'Sectoral Pathways to Net Zero' paper, which maps out possible 1.5 °C pathways for five key high‐emitting sectors: energy, utilities, materials in specific steel and cement, and transport.

  • Carney launches private finance strategy for COP26

    09 November 2020

    Mark Carney has launched the UK's Private finance Strategy for COP 26, which includes proposals to help countries require disclosures in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Environmental Finance's webinar - Renewable energy: mapping out the next investment push

    21 July 2020

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  • TPI findings 'raise red flag for COP26' amid lack of climate progress

    20 March 2020

  • Carney makes TCFD push at launch of COP26 private finance agenda

    27 February 2020

    Mark Carney has used the launch of COP26's private finance agenda to urge financial institutions to conduct climate stress tests and disclose comprehensive climate-related information.

  • Alok Sharma appointed President of COP26

    13 February 2020

    Alok Sharma has been appointed the UK minister in charge of the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow, after being been promoted to UK business secretary by the Prime Minister.

  • UK government launches COP26 after sacking president

    04 February 2020

    The UK government's launch of the UN Climate Summit, to be hosted in Glasgow in November, was overshadowed by its dismissal of the president of the negotiations, who hit back with a letter warning the process is "miles off track".

  • Climate Change Committee presses new UK government to lead ahead of COP26

    18 December 2019

  • COP24 sees historic agreement on Paris rulebook, but work remains

    17 December 2018

    A historic agreement on the rules that will govern the Paris Agreement has been sealed at the Katowice climate change conference (COP 24), but countries failed to agree changes to strengthen emissions trading schemes.

  • News briefs from COP23

    10 November 2017

    Small island nation Fiji will have to spend around $4.5 billion over the next decade to prepare for rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels.