Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas , Liderança Estratégica em Política Climática | Gestão Programática de Eventos Globais | Parcerias Multissetoriais & Filantropia | Governança & Representação Internacional. During the São Paulo Climate Week, which wraps up today, we as #COP30 Presidency in the context of the NAPs Implementation Alliance had the pleasure to partner with Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) to host a roundtable with representatives from the financial sector to: 1. Discuss the landscape of investments in resilience 2. Learn from their concrete experiences of designing financial instruments to fund #ClimateAdaptation , and 3. Understand how NAPs are (or are not) being used by financial institutions as guiding stars to identify the demand for funding and decide on how to allocate it. I´ve learned a lot reading the Report from GFANZ , particularly the cases of AON and the Government of Jamaica, the Zurich and Maersk case presented by Andressa Mei...

The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance  announce in April a tripling in membership from its launch at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in September 2019, with 37 members now committing to set and report on interim targets towards net-zero portfolio emisisons by 2050. Alliance members Wespath and the David Rockefeller Fund preview their 2025 portfolio decarbonisation targets, to be officially announced on Earth Day (22 April 2021), while the Church Commissioners for England announced its 2025 emissions reduction target in a statement. (see details below). Günther Thallinger, Chair of the Alliance’s Steering Group and Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, said: “Alliance members are demonstrating strong, early leadership by already setting science-based measurable targets for 2025. We have 16 members publishing firm targets for 2025 – targets that they will report on every year – and there are more member’s targets to come. This is a vita...