UN Deputy Secretary-General calls for “Sport stars, pundits, sponsors and their creative partners to... use your voices and your platform to connect with people and youth in the billions, fire up their passions. Show leaders that a just, healthy and net zero carbon planet is inevitable."

When it comes to climate disclosure standards, what's the difference between ISSB and TCFD?

The IFRS Foundation has shared a helpful guidance that summarizes key differences between the two standards.

? What are your thoughts on the ISSB Climate Exposure Draft?

⏰ The Exposure Draft is open for comments until 29 July 2022.

Did you know there’s another COP?

With just months to go until UN Biodiversity COP15, countries left Geneva without resolving many of the key elements of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Observers said the talks moved at a “glacial pace”, with some raising concerns that countries are “heading for Copenhagen” – a reference to the 2009 climate summit that was widely perceived to have ended in failure.

Read Elizabeth Mrema, chief of the Convention of Biological Diversity, reflections on the negotiations and her hope - which I personally completely support - climate change and biodiversity loss should be tackled together as one problem at UN summits in future.

Greening Sydney 2030

PART 2 - The Stockholm+50 Preparation meeting (part 2). CCCRdg will follow the agenda and hope it promote Inclusion within societies and “globally”, thus Stockholm50 becoming an equity project - a healthy planet for the prosperity of all species.

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! The Stockholm+50 Preparation meeting. CCCRdg will follow the agenda and hope it promote Inclusion within societies and “globally”, thus Stockholm50 becoming an equity project - a healthy planet for the prosperity of all species.

Hi everyone! Feedback request | Global Canopy invites all pension fund managers, asset managers, or representatives from financial institutions, non-governmental organisations, and Indigenous peoples and local communities for feedback on guidance for Deforestation-free Pension Funds.

Pension funds have a powerful influence over sectors and industries that are strongly connected to deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses. Pension funds have the ability to help drive change not just within their own investments but across the finance sector more broadly.

To enable pension funds to address their exposure to these issues effectively, and in line with best practice, Global Canopy, alongside partners Make My Money Matter and SYSTEMIQ Ltd., are developing guidance to enable pension funds to identify, address, and eliminate deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses from their investments.

The consultation document linked below is a detailed outline for guidance that is being developed; it is not comprehensive or complete but has been produced to gain feedback from stakeholders on the topics and actions included.

We are asking representatives from pension funds, asset managers, financial institutions, rightsholders, Indigenous peoples, local communities and NGOs for feedback. Please click the link below, follow the instructions and complete the survey by 5th April 2022.

If you do not feel you fit into one of the above groups and would like to review the document, or if you have any questions on this document or the associated surveys please contact the Global Canopy team at guidance [at] globalcanopy.org (guidance[at]globalcanopy[dot]org).

For the people who are still wondering “How did we get here?”, I can tell you how

We marginalized the people who dedicate their lives to understanding the complexity of our world. We chose to read 360 characters instead of 360 pages. We cancelled before we tried to understand. We made (and lost) a quick buck instead of investing in long-term change.

Enhancing disclosure to scale up sustainable finance in China and beyond

In the latest contribution to the GEF Aligning Finance Policies project, Cheng Lin of the Beijing Institute of Finance and Sustainability provides updates on China's green finance landscape.

Mainstreaming disclosure is an essential step towards aligning financial systems with sustainability, both in China and worldwide - but disclosure alone is far from sufficient to guarantee a sustainable financial future.

? What are examples of green finance measures that can support or build upon climate-related disclosure?