California and Morocco are starkly different places, but not when it comes to energy. Both are charting radical paths to replace fossil fuels with clean energy – and they’re pulling it off. As climate negotiators scramble this week to keep their bold carbon reducing agreement on track, they can draw lots of inspiration from these […]
The Pathways to Carbon Pricing
The transition to a thriving, clean economy that protects the global climate while providing equitable access to sustainable development does not come cheap. The energy innovation and climate-resilient infrastructure we need requires finance at scale. This is why the climate finance discussion is so difficult and so important. On the one hand, developing countries legitimately […]
The Adaptation stream of the negotiations is progressing well so far although important issues remain to be resolved, including interaction with Finance and Loss & Damage. This topic is a key node within the different discussions, bringing together issues of equity, finance, long-term ambition and trust. Wednesday’s theme for the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA) […]
Ratcheting carbon goals in 2020 will help unleash business ambition
In Paris, the climate change negotiations are underway with over 140 world leaders opening the talks while brimming with enthusiasm about the development of a low-carbon economy. President Barack Obama said, “There are hundreds of billions of dollars ready to deploy to countries around the world if they get the signal that we mean business […]
Government Leaders have taken the first step in creating a thriving clean economy. Now they must continue the journey by including a long-term decarbonization goal in the Paris Agreement.
Walking the walk: how food and agriculture businesses take action on climate
Paris has already delivered global carbon pricing – the key now is to ensure prices are high enough to drive investment at scale. Business has sent a very loud signal to policy makers with over 1000 signing the World Bank statement in 2014 and over 1000 disclosing to CDP this year that they are already […]
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