ESG and Paris Agreement: Difference between pages

From ACT Wiki
(Difference between pages)
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>Doug Williamson
(Add link.)
 
imported>Doug Williamson
(Create page. Source: UNFCCC webpage https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
1.
An international agreement of 2015 to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.  


Environmental, Social and Governance.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise in the 21st century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
 
 
2.
 
Environmental and Social Governance.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Corporate governance]]
* [[Climate change: testing the resilience of corporates’ creditworthiness to natural catastrophes]]
* [[CSR]]
* [[Climate risk]]
* [[Environmental concerns]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[ESG investment]]
* [[ESG ratings]]
* [[Green Finance Initiative]]
* [[Social concerns]]


[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 22:36, 6 October 2018

An international agreement of 2015 to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.

The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise in the 21st century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.


See also