Corporate climate policy engagement: A briefing for board directors

  Conducting corporate climate policy engagement (also known as advocacy or lobbying) positively and appropriately is critical to creating the conditions that will enable a company to achieve its net zero transition.  This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with the global think tank InfluenceMap, highlights the key issues that board directors should […]

Boards have a critical role to play in keeping 1.5°C alive

Statement from the Climate Governance Initiative following COP27 The UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, closed with only five out of 198 countries setting stronger national climate targets. Given that current pledges put the planet on track to warm by 2.5°C by the end of the century – a far cry from the 1.5°C limit set out in […]

Los comités tienen un papel fundamental para mantener vivo el objetivo de 1,5°C

Declaración de la Iniciativa de Gobernanza Climática tras la COP27 La Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, COP27, cerró con solo cinco de 198 países estableciendo objetivos climáticos nacionales más estrictos. Dado que las promesas actuales ponen al planeta en camino de calentarse en 2,5 °C para finales de siglo, muy lejos del límite […]

Climate Governance Initiative Central America & Caribbean and Climate Bonds Initiative join forces to promote sustainable finance

The Letter of Intent aims to engage local community in Central America and the Caribbean region about the urgency to increase sustainable investment   San José, Costa Rica, August 16th, 2022. Climate Governance Initiative Central America & Caribbean Chapter (CGI CAC) and Climate Bonds Initiative have established a partnership to promote a high-level discussion within […]

Capítulo de Gobernanza Climática Centroamérica y el Caribe y 
Climate Bonds Initiative firmaron Carta de Intención 
para promover finanzas sostenibles

La Carta tiene como objetivo ampliar la discusión de alto nivel en la región sobre la urgencia de aumentar la inversión sostenible  Costa Rica, martes 16 de agosto de 2022. El Capítulo de Gobernanza Climática Centroamérica y el Caribe (CGI CAC por sus siglas en inglés) y Climate Bonds Initiative (Iniciativa de Bonos Climáticos) firmaron […]

Farmers feel heat as northern Italy suffers worst drought in decades

Farmers feel heat as northern Italy suffers worst drought in decades - CGI CAC.

Fabio Camisani usually wears thick rubber boots to keep his feet dry while surveying the muddy paddy fields of his 70-hectare rice farm south of Milan. But this year he has been walking the parched, baked land wearing sneakers. Meagre winter snowfall in the Alps, which has affected the flow of water from the mountains into […]

Failure of US climate leadership compounds fears for COP27 summit

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Big global emitters are calling into question the US’s commitment to tackling climate change, following legislative setbacks capped by the Supreme Court ruling against federal regulation of carbon emissions. With four months until the UN’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the US failure to implement its signature climate policies is weighing on the outcome of […]

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