150 nations met for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal, Canada. They agreed to set four goals and twenty-four 2030 targets to preserve, protect and rebuild global biodiversity, including: Protecting 30% of earth’s lands oceans, coastal areas
The Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures released its final standards. The TNFD disclosure framework consists of conceptual foundations for nature-related disclosures, a set of general requirements, a set of recommended disclosures structured around the four recommendation pillars of governance,
Recognizing that our society and economy depend on natural capital – nature’s assets and the services they provide – the TNFD was established to “provide companies and financial institutions with a risk management and disclosure framework to identify, assess, manage
The IPCC 6th assessment report on climate change clearly and unequivocally concludes that there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change. Cutting global GHG emissions by nearly half by 2030
In June 2023, the ISSB released finalized standards for sustainability and climate-related disclosures: General Sustainability-related Disclosure (S1) Climate-related Disclosures (S2) The standards became effective as of January 1, 2024.
