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Ofer Ben-Dov: The financial sector must act now to fight the climate crisis Opinion: As Vancouver strives to become the greenest city in the world, the city needs to make sure its financial sector is in sync with the city’s sustainability goals and sends the appropriate signals to developers and their financiers
Author of the article: Ofer Ben-Dov
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • The City of Vancouver approved a Climate Emergency Action Plan to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030. To achieve the goal, the financial sector must be on board to drive the required shift in the business sector, says Ofer Ben-Dov. Photo by JENNIFER GAUTHIER /REUTERS files
ENGIE announces new decarbonisation tool for public and private sectors
It claims the tool goes beyond the concept of carbon footprint, demonstrating economic and environmental value to increase investment and innovation
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ENGIE has developed a tool which it claims objectively measures the decarbonisation of both the private and public sectors.
It has stated the tool goes beyond the concept of carbon footprinting, demonstrating economic and environmental value to increase investment and innovation.
It has identified six principles for its measurement system and produced a guide, alongside SUEZ, Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE), the Solar Impulse Foundation and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
New paper urges shift to ‘nature positivity’ to restore Earth
A new paper, published by leading conservationists and the heads of various global institutions, argues for adopting a “nature-positive” goal.
This would require restoring the Earth from 2020, placing the world on a nature positive path by 2030 to mount a full recovery by 2050.
According to the authors, nature positivity would provide an overarching goal for nature that would coincide with the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) mission and streamline agreements for climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development into one common vision.
The paper was released a few days before the start of the meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), where parties will provide advice on the CBD’s post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
5 innovators making the electric vehicle battery more sustainable
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Natalie Marchant, Writer, Formative Content
Global stock of electric vehicles (EVs) could reach 245 million units by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
While EVs emit less CO2, their batteries are tough to recycle.
Made from cobalt, lithium and nickel, the mining of these raw materials raises ethical and environmental concerns.
Creating a circular supply chain by recycling the batteries’ raw materials will be vital in reducing their environmental impact.
Electric vehicles (EVs) may reduce emissions, but the lithium-ion batteries on which they run pose a unique sustainability challenge.