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Dec 11th, 2020

Financing our Future

The report sets out actions to deliver a global sustainable financial system, with recommendations for all parts of the investment chain. The report was updated in December 2019 to reflect the actions and momentum that has built in the financial system since the report was first released.

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Dec 1st, 2020

The Climate Action Pathway for Net Zero Cooling

The pathway highlights three key messages to deliver this vision – passive cooling, super-efficient equipment and appliances, and ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants. Urgent action is needed to ensure growing demand for future cooling can be met in a sustainable way. By 2050, achieving net zero cooling for all will mitigate up to 260 […]

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Dec 1st, 2020

Audit Committees and Effective Climate Governance, A Guide for Boards of Directors

Authored by Dr. Janis Sarra, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, with contributing authors Meghan Harris-Ngae, Ernst & Young, Roopa Davé, KPMG, and Ravipal Bains, McMillan LLP, this guide draws together current legal standards and best practice guidance for Canadian audit committees, to assist them in taking a leadership role in effective […]

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Nov 18th, 2020

The Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry

The Standard, developed by the PCAF Global Core Team, provides detailed methodological guidance to measure and disclose GHG emissions associated with six asset classes: listed equity and corporate bonds; business loans and unlisted equity; project finance; commercial real estate; mortgages; and motor vehicle loans.

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Nov 12th, 2020

SOTC: Sea Ice

Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. Blanketing millions of square kilometers, sea ice forms and melts with the polar seasons, affecting both human activity and biological habitat. In the Arctic, some sea ice persists year after year, whereas almost all Southern Ocean or Antarctic sea ice is “seasonal ice,” meaning […]

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Nov 1st, 2020

Chapter Zero: A climate change boardroom toolkit

This toolkit has been developed for Chapter Zero, the directors’ climate forum, by The Berkeley Partnership working with the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement in Cambridge. This toolkit has been deliberately designed to provide an accessible resource to be used and dipped in-and-out of, rather than as a detailed ‘academic’ document to be […]

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