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Everything you need to know about the Green Horizon Summit The Green Horizon Summit is our moment to close this gap and mobilize capital by converting momentum into action ahead of COP26 The need for adaptation and resilience financing is also clear and it is increasingly apparent that the private finance community has a critical role to play in furthering these initiatives
Green Horizon Summit to Accelerate the Race to Zero, Highlight . . . The Green Horizon Summit will bring together leaders from government, business, and civil society to close the financing gap between net zero ambitions and reality Each session will help drive forward the role of green finance in the recovery from COVID-19
Green Horizon Summit: The Pivotal Role of Finance The green transition is both an urgent existential imperative, as well as a significant commercial opportunity Capturing this opportunity will drive job creation and speed the return to growth But for now, there is a persistent financing gap between net zero ambitions and reality The Green Horizon Summit is our moment to close this gap
This is how the world can get to net-zero faster, experts say | World . . . Unless more money is invested in green energy, the world will heat by 3°C But change is achievable and affordable, according to a panel at the World Economic Forum’s Green Horizons Summit About 1 5% of global GDP would fund a clean energy transition And some experts believe net-zero carbon could be achieved sooner than planned
How to follow our Green Horizon Summit: The Pivotal Role of Finance The City of London Corporation, in collaboration with the Green Finance Institute, and supported by the World Economic Forum, is hosting a virtual summit 9-11 November that will focus on the role of green finance in the recovery from COVID-19
Why is imagining a positive future crucial for progress? Fredy Vargas Lama, Director of the Center for Foresight and Strategic Thinking, Universidad Externado de Colombia, argues that hope and positive thinking can drive real progress
Minings next chapter: innovation, sustainability and progress The mining and metals industry hasn’t traditionally been recognized as innovative The industry’s technological innovation has been marginal, process-oriented, usually motivated by cost reduction, and, more recently, aimed at enhanced environmental performance – though not radically transformative
Why a local approach to the just transition is so effective Despite the global nature of these interconnected crises, any solution to tackle them needs to be deeply local We cannot work toward a green, inclusive global economy without putting people – workers, families, communities – at its core To do this well, we need solutions to be locally owned, contextually relevant and people-first
3 ways the Internet of Things could help fight climate change For example, IBM's China Research Lab is working with the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (BEPB) and other municipal authorities in China to scale-up its air quality forecasting system, as part of IBM's Green Horizons Initiative The system uses pollution data from a network of sensors spread throughout Beijing