Sentences with phrase «now on climate finance»

asked Karen Orenstein of Friends of the Earth U.S. «We urge all developed nations to act now on climate finance and provide the GCF with the necessary funds to start allocating money to developing countries,» she added.

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Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Now a well - financed coalition of right - wing ideologues, out - of - state oil and gas companies and climate - change skeptics is seeking to effectively kill that law with an initiative on the November state ballot.

Declare that, irrespective of the effectiveness of mitigation actions, significant adverse changes in the global climate are now inevitable and are already taking place, and thus parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. must also include, in the COP15 outcome document, an ambitious agreement on adaptation finance which should prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable countries, especially in the near term,

Guardian: Oliver Tickell: Don't let the carbon market dieThe Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends Some people have good reason to be shocked that banks have pulled out of the carbon market, not least recent economics graduates whose dissertations on carbon finance now qualify them only for unemployment.

We note an essential step needed now to assure the world that developed countries are on track to provide $ 100 billion in climate finance by 2020 is for them to announce public adaptation and mitigation finance targets in Paris.

But governments must build on the past, by continuing Kyoto, planning for a future legal deal to further slash emissions before 2020, and by mobilising the finance poor people need now to cope with climate change,» Kelly Dent adds.

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@marklutes of @climateWWF: UN climate talks needs hands on political leadership now if there is to be tangible progress on sticky issues: finance, increasing ambition, differentiation #SB48 http://ow.ly/5xai30jVSAn #StepUp2018 (Pix IISD) pic.twitter.com/WfI 4xjRhII

Now a well - financed coalition of right - wing ideologues, out - of - state oil and gas companies and climate - change skeptics is seeking to effectively kill that law with an initiative on the November state ballot.

As developed countries have fled the Kyoto Protocol like rats from a sinking ship, climate financing continues to be central among the issues on the table at the UNFCCC COP18 negotiations taking place right now in Doha, Qatar (as Friends of the Earth's Karen Orenstein notes here).

Now ExxonMobil — the only major oil company to deny the reality of climate change — has joined the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists from 100 countries on the IPCC.

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.

«Now is the time to move into the second generation of investor action on climate change, which tackles the system that is locked into financing fossil fuels.