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Jul 9, 20221 min read
Introducing the Carbon Market Age
The carbon market has grown to an estimated value of $270 billion, putting it on institutional investors' radar as an asset class of...
Jul 8, 20221 min read
Basel: Principles for the effective management and supervision of climate-related financial risks
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recently published principles for effective management and supervision of climate-related...
Jul 7, 20221 min read
IFRS, ISSB, Accounting: Climate Exposure Draft is open for comment until 29 July 2022
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has published and welcomes broad stakeholder feedback on its Exposure Draft IFRS...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
The use of carbon credits: the provisional Code of Practice by the VCMI*
* Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity (VCMI) Initiative is a multistakeholder platform to...
Jun 28, 20221 min read
What Makes a High-Quality Carbon Credit?
Three entities - World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund and Oeko-Institut - are developing a “Carbon Credit Guidance for Buyers”...
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Global climate goal could be in peril without carbon price reform
According to managers representing $10.6 trillion in investments, without a global review of carbon prices, climate goals could be...
Jun 25, 20221 min read
In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate change
“If we go to hell, we’ll take a blanket,” is a common joke in Jacobabad, Pakistan, where people are accustomed to hot weather. But during...
Jun 21, 20221 min read
Nearly all of Portugal in 'severe' drought after hottest May on record
Almost all of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country’s weather service (IPMA) said on June 9, 2022. Last month was...
Jun 18, 20221 min read
Google: land cover data just got real-time
To help turn satellite imagery into more useful information for quantifying change, Google worked with the World Resources Institute...
Jun 17, 20221 min read
It all depends on water
Water flows across all aspects of climate-change mitigation and adaptation, argues Aditi Mukherji, who co-wrote the chapter on water in...
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