Sentences with phrase «investments into climate change»

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Weaving clean growth into our economic fabric builds jobs and investment — but also the support and momentum we'll need to keep tackling climate change.

We were among the first to look into the topic of investments and climate change.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

Welcoming the injection of new financing, GEF CEO and Chairperson, Naoko Ishii, said «Given that we're already locked into climate change trajectories for many years to come, increased investment in adaptation has to be at the core of the new climate agreement.»

Ms Najira advised that climate information is being integrated into national policy frameworks such as the National Climate Change Management Policy, 2014 - 2018 investment plan, Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA), National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and the Nationally Determined Contributionsclimate information is being integrated into national policy frameworks such as the National Climate Change Management Policy, 2014 - 2018 investment plan, Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA), National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and the Nationally Determined ContributionsClimate Change Management Policy, 2014 - 2018 investment plan, Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA), National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).

This technical document brings together key reports from the investment world that demonstrate best practice on climate change, identifying the risks and opportunities, assessing how companies are dealing with them, and translating their performance and intentions into future financial returns.

The conclusions challenge a cornerstone of Labor's climate change policy as the federal government pours taxpayer funds into wind projects using direct subsidies, a planned $ 10 billion investment fund and renewable energy targets.

Vlado has been cited in two submissions to the Australian Senate «inquiry into foreign investment by state - owned entities»; and a submission to the UK Parliament's Energy and Climate Change committee's «inquiry into UK deepwater drilling — implications of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill».

It says climate change could accelerate the spread of malaria, yellow fever and cholera — and while investment into education to ensure humans are more resilient to climatic shocks is important, there also needs to be research into the link between rising temperatures, water stress and the spread of those diseases.

This manual aims to assist investment project formulation practitioners in incorporating climate change considerations into agricultural investment projects and programmes.

This technical document identifies climate change risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investments and presents considerations for monitoring and evaluation strategies to track the effectiveness of such actions.

Keith Allott, WWF - UK's climate change spokesman said it would «avoid the risk of locking the UK into a high - carbon future» and could boost investment in carbon capture technology.

In 2016, ICROA and Imperial College conducted a second research study that highlighted further how private investment into voluntary carbon projects generates benefits to local communities in addition to mitigating climate change.

More forward - looking financial indicators are required if investors are to translate climate change risk into investment decisions.»

Several trends, including emissions reduction, carbon pricing or investment into low - carbon technologies, make it appear that the worst of the risks of climate change can be avoided.

The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and land - use management is well served by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.

«Every pension fund manager needs to ask themselves have we incorporated climate change and carbon risk into our investment strategy?

Background In a warming world, it is increasingly important for policy development, decision - making and investments at the national and local scale to take into account changing patterns of extreme weather and climate - related events.

They said: «the growing investment opportunities in climate change... [will] continue into the foreseeable future» and went on to say: «In the energy sector alone, the International Energy Agency estimates that about $ 45 trillion will be needed to develop and deploy new, clean technologies between now and 2050.

Passage would mean a significant step toward a vision of 100 % Clean, by capping climate pollution and providing major investment into the rapid acceleration of more renewables, more energy efficiency, more solutions particularly in rural and urban communities most impacted by climate change.

Other co-benefits have to do with obviously just higher density leading to more land conservation and lower water demand (which are a big issue out here in the west), and lower levels of infrastructure investment, which translates back into affordability, not just for the climate change solution, but more affordability for everyday life.

Insurers need to: collect more complete data on weather - related losses; incorporate climate modeling into their risk analyses; analyze the implications of climate change on their business and investments and share the results with shareholders; and encourage policy action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Such an analysis does not even take into account the long - term investment implications of the argument that if climate change is to be limited to a global increase in temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius, no more than 20 percent of all fossil fuel reserves accounted for at present can be burned.

Investment and financial flows to address climate change: An update The AWG - LCA 2 has requested the UNFCCC secretariat to prepare an update (FCCC / TP / 2008 / 7) of the technical paper on investment and financial flows to address climate change, taking into account paragraph 1 of the Bali AcInvestment and financial flows to address climate change: An update The AWG - LCA 2 has requested the UNFCCC secretariat to prepare an update (FCCC / TP / 2008 / 7) of the technical paper on investment and financial flows to address climate change, taking into account paragraph 1 of the Bali Acinvestment and financial flows to address climate change, taking into account paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investment's for the transportation sector.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into the Inter-American Development Bank's investments for the water and sanitation sector.

This brief dentifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank investment's for the tourism sector.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank's investments for the agriculture sector.

This brief identifies climate change risks and risk management options that can be incorporated into Inter-American Development Bank's investments for the energy sector.

The Bank is currently working with 130 countries on climate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesClimate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change in all country assessments.

The Global Commission on Economy and Climate found that if we focus heavily on low - carbon investments, it would add less than 5 % to the total cost — a cost that would be offset by the economic benefits of things like energy efficient buildings and cleaner air, without even taking into account the many future benefits of avoiding further climate Climate found that if we focus heavily on low - carbon investments, it would add less than 5 % to the total cost — a cost that would be offset by the economic benefits of things like energy efficient buildings and cleaner air, without even taking into account the many future benefits of avoiding further climate climate change.

Among them, about $ 3 trillion in global investments — including enormous funds like the California state pension fund — could find themselves busted by «stranded assets,» as the fuel reserves that energy companies calculate into their net worth would need to stay unused to avert the worst of climate change.

During that time he led the creation of the CDM Gold Standard, a tool for channeling carbon market investments into sustainable clean energy projects, and participated in the European Climate Change Programme working group responsible for the design of the EU ETS.

Climate expert Fahad Saeed, who heads the Climate Change Unit at the Islamabad - based think tank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), said it could be a good time for Pakistan to invest in clean energy by tapping intelligently into the international funding available and demanding technology transfer or investment from the USD 100 billion figure per year earmarked for the Green Climate Fund by 2020.