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🔴 LIVE now! Join GCoM Mayors and a stellar line-up of other speakers for the conference "Translating the Green Deal into local action". Earlier, GCoM Co-Chair & European Commission Executive Vice-President for #EUGreenDeal Maroš Šefčovič emphasized that cities can be trailblazers in #ClimateAction. "Our goals are the same. We are working together. I welcome your recommendations on how we can better work together", he said. Maroš Šefčovič also highlighted that "local authorities have a key role to play in our fight against climate change. This is increasingly recognized, such as at COP28 where the Local Climate Action Summit took place. We also supported what became a very important document, the declaration of the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP)." Be part of the discussion - follow the event here! 👉https://lnkd.in/dqGMsT34 Covenant of Mayors - Europe EU Environment and Climate

Was great to be able to speak at the Victorian Greenhouse Alliances conference yesterday. I shared the stage with ICLEI's Sharin Govender and City of Hobart's Jessica Robbins on how sub-national governments and communities can influence federal climate targets and UN climate #COP processes. My talk centred on: 1. Why 2035 targets and Nationally Determined Contributions are so important and why local governments should care  2. What it means to be 1.5 aligned, and the importance of science based approaches to target setting. For Australia this means at least 90% by 2035 and net zero before 2040.  3. Australias role in phasing out fossil fuels and replacing with clean exports 4. What local governments can do to help shift the dial and help lift Australian Federal climate ambition  My 10th alliances conference and always gets bigger and better each year. Such a great governance model for regional climate action! Well done to all the organisers this year Steve Turnock  Jan Wisniewski Scott McKenry  Fran Macdonald Carole Hammond Annika Kearton Tiffany Harrison Sue Phillips.(Photo: Plenary with Psychology for a Safe Climate)

New (!): Impact Report on Essex Climate Action Commission (ECAC) You can download the report pdf here: https://lnkd.in/eUTshVmd Three years of work towards net zero since our major 2021 report – now 64 major impacts recorded. Climate action is both about becoming carbon neutral, addressing inequality and social justice, and creating visions for new ways of living The ECAC is guided by three key principles: universality of options for all people, many paths, and ensuring all advances are multipurpose There have been many wonderful highlights on nature recovery; the energy transition; cutting waste; addressing water shortages; changing the built environment; more sustainable transport; building social capital; and creating the greener economy by just transitions More on the ECAC here: https://lnkd.in/e4UuBaCm

The AEMT has achieved CAFA (Climate Action for Associations) Certified Carbon Neutral Association status by measuring, reporting and offsetting its carbon footprint from January 2023 to December 2023, and putting in place credible, science aligned plans to further measure and reduce its emissions. https://lnkd.in/e_w5A2w9

The climate policy landscape for lenders is changing. New risks, new regulations, new roles. But within this change lies an opportunity to unlock green lending and win the confidence of investors. Join us at The Lender Path to Net Zero webinar on Tuesday to find out how from Bankers for Net Zero (B4NZ), a leading industry initiative driving the conversation for lenders. 📅 Date: Tues 11th June 🕒 Time: 1pm - 2pm 📍 Location: Virtual Register here ➡ https://lnkd.in/eGy-46Qj #NetZero  #MortgageLenders  #Webinar #ClimateAction

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🌍 While many social challenges are currently taking up a lot of attention, climate change must not take a back seat. The CS Science Communication GmbH and the Helmholtz Association REKLIM have therefore visualized the ABC of climate change on an informative poster. This poster will be distributed not only at three of our German locations but also to secondary schools in the surrounding districts. VEKA AG, GEALAN Fenster-Systeme GmbH and VEKA Umwelttechnik are sponsoring this initiative in Germany to provide schools with high-quality educational material. Our goal is to raise awareness and emphasize the importance of addressing climate change. This initiative coincides with the #COP29 last month in Baku, reminding us all of the importance of taking action and responsibility. Check out the German poster here: https://lnkd.in/g7xczGSb Let’s work together to sensitize the next generation to climate protection and equip them with the tools they need to create a sustainable future! Meistens Einfach! #WeCare #WeAct #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Education

The Women Green The Way (#WGTW) speaker series, focusing on climate adaptation in the built environment, commenced on April 22 with a celebration of Earth Day. Gregory May, Aaron Huang, and Bonnie So set the stage by emphasizing the importance of cross-border cooperation for building climate resilience. Over 80 professionals participated, engaging in discussions aimed at driving tangible change. Moderator Wendy Ding skillfully guided the conversation, ensuring progress towards actionable outcomes. Thomasin (Tommy) Crowley highlighted the role of ratings in driving climate responses, while keynote speaker David Gottfried captured minds with his visionary journey in launching the global green building movement. David's passion for decarbonization through the World Green Building Council served as an inspiring example for all. Panelists Agnes K Y Tai, PhD 戴洁莹, Mary McHale, and Sophia Wong shared the industrial regional insight and the need for collaborative, cross-sector solutions. The event sparked thought-provoking questions that revealed new areas for action. Key takeaways include: 1. Urgent action needed: Participants emphasized the importance of implementing “carrots and sticks” to drive change. This includes the induction of carbon taxes, incentives, and sustainable decision-making to drive climate action. 2. Address embodied carbon: It accounts for 11% of global emissions and could exceed 50% of real estate emissions by 2035. 3. Transform existing buildings: Retrofitting inefficient structures is crucial despite the challenges. Together, we can create a sustainable built environment. WIFA thanks all those who participated in this event as collectively we can make a difference on greening the way. Watch the event highlight: https://lnkd.in/djqSN5Dh WIFA would be interested in your opinion on which thought leaders we should invite to our next WGTW roundtable. Jazreel Cheng (she/her)

The final UCN meeting of the year took place on December 18, 2024, following the success of UCN’s COP29 events and activities. The session brought together over 50 representatives of the UCN member universities and higher institutions. The members who participated in the UCN workshops at COP29 shared the outcomes and post-event briefs. Additionally, members proposed plans for 2025. We look forward to another fruitful year, working together to advance climate action and sustainability. #UCN #ClimateActions #Sustainability

The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service (SCIS) is now on LinkedIn! 🎉 The #SCIS is a climate change capacity-building programme for local authorities in Scotland, combining a national digital platform and a support service co-designed by the delivery partners and local authorities from across the country. Our digital platform - ClimateView - will collate area-wide emissions data to create standardised emissions inventories across all 32 of Scotland's local authorities. It will also calculate and visualise the emissions reduction impact of particular projects and interventions taken by local authorities in delivering their own area-wide emissions reduction strategies. Through workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions and 1-2-1s, our tailored support service will help local authorities to build the skills, knowledge and influence to use this data to better plan, monitor and deliver #climateaction at the scale and pace required for achieving their #netzero targets. The SCIS is delivered by a partnership between Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, ClimateView and the Improvement Service. This partnership brings together expert climate knowledge, practitioner insights and a track record of successfully supporting local authorities to deliver high quality, efficient local services both in Scotland and across the world. Follow us here to stay up to date with the SCIS journey and share this page with any colleagues and contacts who might be interested! If you have questions about who we are and what we do, you can contact us at info@climateintelligenceservice.scot. COSLA Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) Sustainable Scotland Network #climatechange #localgovernment #NetZero #collaboration #knowledgesharing #

💚 THIS is why we do #AppliedCreativityLabs (www.weareive.org/acl) with children and young people to help them find new solutions to climate change issues.....We can't deliver them without funding/support/sponsorship. 🫶Please do get in touch if you are interested in helping to sponsor us to work with young people! - sarah@weareive.org ⏰ There's no avoiding this anymore...we have to change how we live and work - and fast. 🫖This new climate action report from Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission is brilliant...it's a long read so make a cuppa! ♻️'Act like it’s an emergency. Climate change will impact on us all – and we’re perilously close to the point at which we will trigger dangerous levels of warming. Action on climate and nature must be right at the heart of all decision-making. The population of Yorkshire and the Humber is larger than some countries, so what we do and don’t do really matters. 🤝To have a chance of meeting the net zero target, we need to cut our emissions rapidly by moving away from fossil fuels. That involves continuing the rapid expansion of renewable energy, investing in smart energy grids, and upgrading our homes, buildings, businesses and transport systems to reduce their energy demand. We also need to switch to a resource efficient, circular economy and rethink consumption in key areas such as food, fashion and flying. 🍃Crucially, we need to recognise that the climate crisis goes hand-in-hand with the nature crisis, and we can only address one by also addressing the other. 🌳 We must put nature first in decision-making and promote climate actions that will aid nature’s recovery. That means making more space for nature, as well as restoring peat bogs planting trees where appropriate and enabling more people to realise the wellbeing benefits of using natural green spaces. We also need to invest in our readiness and resilience in the face of growing climate impacts. These include extreme weather events such as floods and severe heatwaves, but also threats to our food supply from failed harvests or new diseases such as tick-borne illnesses. 🏡 This will involve adapting our homes and communities, our water, energy, transport and communications infrastructure, and our farming and food systems, and restoring nature. All of these aspects of resilience are essential to our future health and wellbeing....This is a huge agenda that spans decades. 💡 More than anything, we need leaders – in politics, business, civil society and beyond – to embrace change, to be open to new thinking, and to take the necessary actions. ' Chris Strong Drew Rowlands Jo Lee Evangeline Harrison Jonathan Straight FRSA Nick Street Emma Heaps Lesley Jennings #climateaction #climatechange #climateresilience #creativity #innovation #charity #charitysupport #WeareIVE Web Link https://lnkd.in/eQY-7hay