Green Finance Platform’s Database Shows Significant Rise in Global Green Finance Measures!

Dear Green Community & Sustainable Finance Practitioners,

We are happy to share the latest numbers and analysis of the Green Finance Measures Database (GFMD). GMFD is a global compendium of sustainable finance policies and regulations across over 100 developed, developing and emerging economies. This year, we added 100 new sustainable policy and regulatory measures on the database, reaching a total of 784 national and sub-national financial measures from 109 countries which is a 317% growth since 2015.

Read more about, check the press release that summarizes the key highlights and discussion.

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How to Balance Our Long-term and Short-term Goals in the Climate Crisis

We must first define what our long-term and short-term goals are, because they vary from person to person. To be universal, the definitions of these goals that I refer to focus on the most important things. The long-term goal is to keep humanity alive as long as possible, and the short-term goal is to meet everyone's basic needs, such as food, shelter, medicine, etc.
As long as there are sufficient resources to meet our basic needs, we can continue to pursue the long-term goal, but if the short-term goal conflicts with the long-term goal, how do we balance them? Take global warming, for example. Our long-term goal requires billions of people to drastically reduce their carbon emissions by greatly reducing their consumption of fossil fuels, when in fact fossil fuels provide most of their basic needs. It seems impossible to achieve the long-term goal because few people will care about the future of humanity if they cannot feed their families. Should we then hopelessly cause the suffering of billions of people in the coming decades and possibly make our own species extinct in the coming centuries by continuing business as usual? Certainly not!
Since we cannot sacrifice our basic needs for humanity's future, everything we do will shorten or widen the distance between the long-term and short-term goals. When widening is inevitable, shortening is necessary to bridge the distance. In other words, anything that helps us achieve our short- and long-term goals must be prioritized and accelerated. For example, scientific progress is useful both to meet our basic needs and to save everyone’s future. I believe that scientific and technological progress can be accelerated by making geniuses all over the world.

To run the versatile energy stockpiling compartments, we want carbon-impartial energy creation. For this reason, sustainable power assets like sun based and wind are utilized to defeat the requirement for power reinforcement and crisis power offices. It additionally balances the lattice variances and is used to beat versatile energy stockpiling requests. This energy stockpiling framework assumes significant part in the new energy world and supplies an every minute of every day power supply. Decarbonized energy matrix can be achieved by using energy from inexhaustible assets, which decreases the requirement for battery power utilization.

Nature-Based Solutions to 21st Century Challenges

Making Proposals for Climate Change by Following Human Nature

Most ideas will not work. Albert Einstein produced more than three hundred scientific papers in his lifetime and only a small fraction of them turned out to be breakthroughs. Since we are not as smart as the genius, our ideas will be less likely to work than Einstein's.
It is not enough to make a good proposal. For example, the golden rule was stated over a thousand years ago: Treat others as you would like to be treated. If everyone followed this rule, the world would be a better place. There is no shortage of good proposals. It is the practical plans that are rare.
Reasoning is not an effective way of persuasion. Proving to a drinker or smoker that their life would get better by showing evidence will not make them stop.
Presenting a successful model will be convincing. Sometimes we need the help of like-minded people to test our proposal on a small scale and then prove it to others.
Following human nature usually works. For example, our curiosity is a natural urge to learn and discover. If the internet can provide its users with quality content, human nature will soon lead to a great improvement in our brainpower.

An interesting take on the global plastic conundrum, focused on packaging - how can we make it more sustainable?

Thanks Carmen Alonso Herr!

Shared Solar Launches to Make Solar Energy More Accessible

Are you looking for a future in a sustainable sector? Or do you want to learn how your skills can help the climate? Then look no further & register now for the international #SolarWorksFair, for free!
The #SolarWorksFair is a virtual event on 1 December, matching job seekers with a diverse range of solar companies. You will get the unique opportunity to connect with talent recruiters, discover what their current opening are and get advice on how to enter the rapidly growing market.
The demand for solar is higher than ever – and we cannot let the shortage of skilled workers hold us back. The sector urgently needs to find talent to install all that solar potential, and they need people with all kinds of skills. #solar

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How can nature-based solutions (NBS) tackle societal challenges while positively impacting nature?

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COP27 kicked off on 6 November, with climate finance mobilisation high on its agenda.

"As it is a saying that "what gets measured gets done," more clarity is needed on the definition of climate finance for developing countries to be able to accurately assess the extent of finance flows for climate action."

What are your expectations in terms of climate finance at COP27?