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• POPE FRANCIS-GENERAL AUDIENCE, Library of the Apostolic Palace, Wednesday, 22 April 2020, Fiftieth Earth Day message
• Race to Zero, -the global campaign to mobilize leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy and resilient zero-carbon recovery in the run-up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The campaign aims to drive a new growth and innovation agenda in support of a more inclusive and resilient economy following the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Google Official Blog-Sustainability; Green news, from efficient data centers to generating inexpensive renewable energy at scale.
• Taxonomy: Final report of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, March 2020
• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos commits $10bn to fight climate change- Jeff Bezos describes climate change as the "biggest threat to our planet" and plans to start distributing cash within months. Monday 17 February 2020
• Central Banks Give a Green Light to Climate-Friendly Financial Systems-Maria Solovieva, Meghan Trivedi, Date Published: November 13, 2019
• East-West Institute
• Global Commons Alliance-New alliance launches plan to save the planet, Mongabay.com, Monday 10 June 2019. see also Global Commons Alliance- homepage
• A4S-Accounting for Sustainability Initiative-Prince Charles
• AODP-Asset Owners Disclosure Project, tech, science
• Business Ambition for 1.5°C — Our Only Future campaign
• CFA Institute-10 January 2019, Positions on Environmental, Social, and Governance Integration
• CBSR-Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
• EAI-Enhanced Analytics Initiative is a group of asset owners and managers who have developed a program to influence brokerages to produce environmental reports in conjunction with the brokerage stock analysis which hasn't paid much attention to environmental aspects in the past. promoting better research via 5% of brokerage commissions to extra-financial research.
• Earth Charter-2000
• Engineers Canada-National Guideline: Principles of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation for Engineers-May, 2018
• Equator Principles
• GGAC-Green Growth Action Alliance-Climate Change and Green Growth – World Economic Forum
• GGKP-The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership is a global network of experts and organizations dedicated to providing the policy, business, and finance communities with knowledge, guidance, data, and tools to transition to an inclusive green economy. Three knowledge platforms – the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, the Green Industry Platform, and the Green Finance Platform
• GIIN-Global Impact Investing Network, 83 founding members in 15 countries
• Global Compact- With more than 9,500 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 60 Local Networks, it is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative., since Dec 2015, learn from each other
• I4CE -Institute for Climate Economics
• IISD- International Institute for Sustainable Development.
• Masdar Initiative-billion dollar initiative in new energy sources and sustainable resources based in Abu Dhabi, started April 2006.
• PPIF-The Principles For Positive Impact Finance-UNEPFI, 2017
• PRI-Principles for Responsible Investing. 180 institutional investors managing $8Trillion in assets.
• SASB-Sustainable Accounting Standards Board – ‘Putting Sustainability on the Investing Map,
• TIIP- Measuring Effectiveness: Roadmap to Assessing System-level and SDG Investing- March 2018, IRRC Institute, TIIP - the Investment Integration Project
• UN Green Economy Initiative
• UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative
• World Benchmarking Alliance for sustainability- RI Interview: Mark Wilson, CEO of Aviva Plc, launches the World Benchmarking Alliance for sustainability, Aviva chief kicks off one of the world’s biggest open-source sustainability data and ranking projects.by Hugh Wheelan, September 18th, 2017



1.5 degree world – Net Zero Emissions by 2050



• Achieving Paris-Alignment: New investor initiative provides blueprint for net-zero alignment-August 18, 2020
• $16 trillion investors develop first-ever framework for net zero investing- 05.08.20, IIGCC, Net Zero Investment Framework
• BP to 0 by 2050-Feb 12, 2020, Associated Press, By Rachel Koning Beals
• COP 25- Key Takeaways from the UN Climate Conference, United Nations, The world takes on one of the most pressing issues of our time — the climate emergency — at COP25 in Madrid, Spain; by Dan Shepard, UN Communications Officer and Climate Communications Expert
• EP100- Energy Productivity
• RE 100-100% RE information
• Science Based Targets.org
• UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
• EU Transition Taxonomy-December 18, 2019, EU adopts universal taxonomy aimed at helping investors reduce carbon emissions
• UN Global Compact Business Ambition for 1.5°C pledge-Business Ambition for 1.5°C: Our Only Future - United Nations ...
• The EU taxonomy: a generational shift for responsible investment-11 June 2019, Will Martindale, Director of Policy and Research, the PRI
• SR15-The Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, Oct 2018, IPCC report,
• All hands on deck
• “Warming beyond 1.5°C is a calamity we simply must not risk,” said Andrew Steer, SBTi Board Member and President and CEO of World Resources Institute. “Science-based targets provide a blueprint for companies to make a clear contribution to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, but we need all hands on deck. There is not a minute to lose.”
• 87 Major Companies Lead the Way Towards a 1.5°C Future at UN Climate Action Summit- 22 SEP, 2019, Business Ambition for 1.5°C — Our Only Future” campaign. see-Science Based Targets
  
• 28 companies announced in July, including
• Acciona;
• AstraZeneca;
• Banka BioLoo;
• BT;
• Dalmia Cement Ltd.;
• Enel;
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise;
• Iberdrola;
• KLP;
• Levi Strauss & Co.;
• Mahindra Group;
• Natura &Co;
• Novozymes;
• Royal DSM;
• SAP;
• Signify;
• Singtel;
• Telefonica;
• Telia;
• Unilever;
• Vodafone Group and
• Zurich Insurance
  
• 66 companies added = 87, in September 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit
• ADEC Innovations;
• América Móvil;
• ASICS Corporation;
• Atlassian Corporation;
• Bharti Airtel Limited;
• Burberry;
• City Developments Limited;
• The Co-operative Group;
• Croda International;
• Cybercom Group;
• Danone;
• Deutsche Telekom;
• Dexus;
• EDP - Energias de Portugal;
• Electrolux;
• Elopak;
• En+ Group;
• Ericsson Group;
• Firmenich;
• Glovo;
• Grupo Malwee;
• Guess;
• Ingka Group;
• Inter IKEA Group;
• International Flavors & Fragrances;
• Intuit;
• Klabin;
• L'Oréal;
• MARUI GROUP;
• Nestlé;
• Nokia;
• Novo Nordisk;
• NRG Energy;
• Orange Group;
• Ørsted;
• PensionDanmark;
• Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited;
• Saint-Gobain;
• Salesforce.com;
• Scania;
• Schneider Electric;
• Seventh Generation;
• SkyPower;
• Sodexo;
• SUEZ;
• Swiss Reinsurance;
• TDC;
• Viña Concha y Toro; and
• Wipro

• We Mean Business- is a global coalition of nonprofit organizations working with the world’s most influential businesses to take action on climate change. The coalition brings together seven organizations, BSR, CDP, Ceres, The B Team, The Climate Group, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Together we catalyze business action to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.
• UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance-Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance shows united investor action to align portfolios with a 1.5°C scenario, addressing Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement. This Alliance was initiated by
• Allianz,
• Caisse des Dépôts,
• La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ),
• Folksam Group,
• PensionDanmark, and
• SwissRe.
  Since then,
• Alecta,
• AMF,
• CalPERS,
• Nordea Life and Pension,
• Storebrand, and
• Zurich have joined as founding members.
• Aviva,
• AXA,
• CNP Assurances and Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) have recently joined the growing group.
• Convened by UNEP’s Finance Initiative and the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Alliance is supported by WWF and is part of the Mission 2020 campaign, an initiative led by Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• EU Taxonomy-December 18, 2019, EU adopts universal taxonomy aimed at helping investors reduce carbon emissions
• Committed emissions from existing and planned power plants and asset stranding required to meet the Paris Agreement-Alexander Pfeiffer1,2,4, Cameron Hepburn1,2, Adrien Vogt-Schilb3 and Ben Caldecott2, Published 4 May 2018 •