Tag: Climate Change

This saga illustrates how activist investors can use creative legal strategies to damage the reputation of a company, state, local authority or financial institution over perceived lack of climate action, regardless of the ultimate outcome in court...

Recent heatwaves in China, Europe and elsewhere have intensified calls for action on climate change. On July 3—a day which saw the average global temperature surpass all previous recorded highs—Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans stressed the importance of making polluters pay for their emissions. “Carbon pricing is widely recognized as the most cost-effective policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions,” he told students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University...

APCO held a special webinar dealing with COP28 and its many challenges and opportunities. Watch the full recording here:..

“The problems involved in global food security are easy to talk about. The solutions are much more difficult.”..

With this mindset, developed nations should have a net-negative by the middle of the century and vacate the carbon space for developing countries...

The good news about this “now or never” moment is that we are seeing a reinvigorated push for innovation to explore new climate solutions..

But what challenges should corporate leaders expect to face this year and what are the geopolitical issues that must be navigated this year?..

Global companies with operations in China face new challenges, but most still view the Chinese market as critical to their business strategies globally.  ..

In this edition of APCO Forum, we cover the biggest issues on the agenda at COP26 in Glasgow...

What does China’s increasing emphasis on decarbonization mean for MNCs looking to enter or expand in China?..

To deliver on thousands of bold targets, companies must now rapidly increase the development and implementation of credible climate action plans...

The climate situation in emerging economies such as India is more complex—balancing growth and sustainable development from private companies...

Published ahead of COP26, a new report by Logically and APCO Worldwide found a worrying link between climate change misinformation and COVID-19 conspiracy theories...

It’s hard to miss the pattern stressed by activists who have observed that low-income countries are left behind in the fight against climate and COVID-19...

In the final edition of our UNGA week series, climate takes center stage as Climate Week concludes and the world looks ahead to the G20 and COP 26 later this year...

As we look to COP26, there are three key signals we need to see to demonstrate that we are stepping away from that abyss...

Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate was more than a moment of cooperation between heads of state, but a call for businesses to step up alongside governments...

The Biden-Harris administration has hit the ground running in determining that climate change poses one of the largest risks to U.S. economic and financial security...

Although there is no country that is not experiencing the drastic effects of climate change, as a populous, tropical emerging economy, India faces a bigger challenge than others in coping with the consequences. ..

China’s participation in the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, held at the UN Headquarters in New York on September 23, marks another major milestone in the development of China’s environmental protection policies...

Addressing the climate emergency is on the top of the agenda for this year’s 74th meeting of the UNGA. While there will be a ton of popular activism and eye-catching business commitments, meaningful government collaboration may be lacking...

It has been almost nine months since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its landmark report on global warming. The report shook the world with its warnings about the need to immediately cut carbon emissions or risk global catastrophe...

In the wake of Europe’s seismic political shifts, it is more important than ever to understand Brussels...

In Brussels, the EU capital that Trump once referred to as a hellhole, the president’s decision to ditch the Paris climate agreement is met with outcry, but also with determination...

President Trump’s decision yesterday to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement is reportedly at odds with many across the business community. Business leaders representing a diverse set of companies have come out against this decision to pull out of the agreement...