As part of Climate Finance Day (Friday 22 May 2015) the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has produced a ten point action plan for businesses on how to finance the low carbon transition in collaboration with leading finance sector experts as part of...
International business leaders are bracing themselves for an incomplete agreement at the UN Climate Summit in Paris this December, and are calling for agreement on carbon pricing, tighter collaboration between business and Government with respect to climate policies and a joint public and private sector...
According to Bryan Jones from the City University of New York, rising temperatures and population growth will combine in Texas or Florida to create a sixfold increase in the number of people exposed to extreme and potentially fatal events from 2041 onwards. When climate and...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recently announced environmental agenda OneNYC is further evidence that climate sustainability and poverty alleviation can go hand in hand. Amongst other priorities, the plan will leverage green infrastructure and energy efficiency investments to create jobs and training opportunities...
A group of investors that have assets totalling $25 Trillion has revealed their roadmap for tackling climate change. The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change in Europe, the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk in the US, the Investors Group on Climate Change in Australia...
World Bank poverty and climate change experts are combining forces with researchers to develop policy and recommendations that aim to help in the fight against poverty-a fight that ultimately requires very urgent action on both climate change and poverty. In February this year World Bank...
Recent pronouncements by the Abbott Government that coal is good for Australia are increasingly coming under scrutiny, and if recently published findings are anything to go by, this scrutiny should continue. According to the International Edition of the Green Innovation Index, Australia had the highest...
According to Damian Ryan, Head of International Policy at The Climate Group there is no better time to apply a spotlight to health and climate change. Higher temperatures will either create a range of illnesses, disease or injuries or exacerbate them, at a time when...
