'It doesn't pay enough to lead on sustainability, and it doesn't cost enough to lag behind' says our Executive Director Gerbrand Haverkamp in an euronews interview at the  #WEF24  in Davos. Read more: bit.ly/3U4BwZ6

#AllAtOnce   #SDG2000

In the coming months, United Nations members will negotiate a 'Pact for the Future' that leaders can adopt in September.

'This is not a prospect that fills New York-based diplomats with glee.'

More from me FES New York:

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Brand Watch: Instead of marking their own homework on climate action, could #COP28 bring companies to book? Oliver Balch reports on UN's new #NetZero transition charter. Gerbrand Haverkamp Net Zero Tracker World Benchmarking Alliance Liam Dowd Terry Slavin Reuters Events Sustainable Business reuters.com/sustainability…

We analysed the 350 most powerful food & agriculture companies in the world to hold them accountable for their role in healthier, more sustainable & equitable #foodsystems . The findings? The industry is letting down farmers, workers, consumers & the planet!bit.ly/3ZxDtxM

This week's World Benchmarking Alliance event at #UNGA shed light on the path to closing the #corporateaccountability gap.

💬@StefanosFotiou reminds us, 'Accountability isn't exclusive to governments. The private sector must step up for people and the planet.' #GlobalGoals

Gerbrand Haverkamp, Executive Director of World Benchmarking Alliance, spoke at #newyorkclimateweek about accountability. Scaling up accountability means all actors, governments, and companies have to step up their game.

Read more 👇
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UNPRECEDENTED - No political leader said it as is! 🔥

'This #ClimateCrisis is a #FossilFuel crisis!'
Gavin Newsom California Governor

'It's the burning of oil, it's the burning of gas, it's the burning of coal, and we need to call that out!'

#ClimateAmbitionSummit
#UNGA #UNGA 78

Unless we make the impact that companies have on people and the planet consequential to their success, companies will not transform.

Our white paper, out today, looks at current gaps in effective #corporateaccountability and ways to close them: bit.ly/3Pi6Pgl
#AllAtOnce

🗣️ 'We need to come together and identify who is missing at the table so all voices are included in this discussion.' shares Nicholas Sewe, Engagement Manager, World Benchmarking Alliance at the Africa Internet Governance Forum.

📣We won't achieve the #SDGs unless we see more action from #business . With clear expectations, we can influence companies to transform, by rewarding the leaders whilst holding the laggards accountable. But only if we all act, everywhere, and #AllAtOnce .

#CorporateAccountability

📢Spotlight on our #OilandGasBenchmark data, featured in a TED Talk by Nobel Laureate Al Gore at the TED Countdown Summit in Detroit. He called out #oilcompanies for not meeting their commitments to reducing emissions.

Watch here: bit.ly/3LBOwk7

Africa is underrepresented in the global financial architecture, just as it lacks a permanent seat on the Security Council.

The world has changed. Global governance must change with it.

We need reforms to make global frameworks truly universal & representative of today's world.

The fossil fuel industry's hold over our political and financial systems blocks ambitious action on the climate crisis at every turn. We can't afford to put their false solutions ahead of a just transition to clean energy. Learn why in my latest TED Talks. ted.com/talks/al_gore_…

The progress China has made in renewable energy just THIS YEAR makes the entire rest of the world look like it's standing still.

I wrote in December that to call China the 'world leader in renewable energy' was a colossal understatement.

That’s even more true today.

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It's amazing how much difference it makes when a government actually acts on climate

#deforestation #brazil

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Coal project finance outside China has fallen 70-fold, reaching its lowest level in at least 12yrs

Global Energy Monitor 'for every $1 in coal project lending that reached financial close in 2022, another $14 was stopped'

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💼 #jobopportunity

We are #hiring a Governance Lead, to work closely with the Finance & Operations Director to support the Supervisory Board and orchestrate the execution of our strategic direction in the organisation.

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Catching up on this from earlier in week. It's genuinely scandalous. The respectable climate scepticism still present in parliaments+boardrooms is built on absurdist models that suggest catastrophic storms and ecosystem collapse have no financial impact. businessgreen.com/news/4119551/s…

We have to build huge amounts of clean energy.
But that doesn't mean we have to continue with growth-as-usual.
Instead, we could use this moment to try and push our economies and societies in new directions.
Some thoughts
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'Didn't I tell you we were going to die? Didn't I tell you we were already dead?'

The complete story of hundreds of preventable deaths in the Mediterranean.

Major The New York Times team effort across countries & teams.

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