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Thursday 23rd January 2025
Davos Climate Spotlight Edition: EU defends climate commitments, UN condemns backsliding, and $1.5B Amazon protection plan launches—while Trump’s Paris exit sparks debate, UK Chancellor hints growth over Net Zero, and Davos highlights glaciers, security, and the partisan climate divide.
Susan Gonzales
January 23, 2025
24 Hours In Sustainability
Worldwide Highlights
The World Economic Forum meetings at Davos are underway this week, including key announcements and reactions to President Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement:
UN Secretary General slams backsliding on climate commitments
Carbon markets investor kicks off $1.5 billion Amazon protection plan
Standard Chartered is set to book almost $1 billion in income in 2025 from business geared towards helping clients meet sustainability goals
With President Trump pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement, it’s useful to remember what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do
Trump's climate retreat shines light on green leaders
The relationship between climate change and security
The UN declares 2025 the International Year of Glaciers
Pakistan boasts the largest number of glaciers outside the polar regions and they’re melting
How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue
EcoVadis launches new CSRD supply chain data collection solution
How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change
Deloitte survey: nearly two-thirds of employees say employers not doing enough to address climate change
Dutch government ordered to drastically cut nitrogen emissions by court
UK Highlights
UK Chancellor has told World Economic Forum at Davos that boosting growth must “trump other things”, that Whitehall’s answer to big infrastructure “can’t always be no”…this could be taken as admitting that Net Zero is less important than achieving economic growth [Paywall Original / Cached Copy]
Also covered in the FT analysis [Paywall Original / Cached Copy]
City of London’s ‘retrofit first’ policy to come into force
An unlikely combo: Newcastle and Helsinki join forces on net zero
The Daily Climate Sceptic
Long-Read of the Week
Much of leading sustainability initiatives is related to motivating colleagues and society to change their behaviour. This week our recommendation is a non-sustainability book, but fantastic for understanding the human-dimension.
Alchemy, by Rory Sutherland, offers a fresh perspective on problem-solving and decision-making, challenging the dominance of logic and data in business and life. Drawing from his experience in advertising, Sutherland explores how human behaviour is often driven by emotion, perception, and irrationality rather than pure reason.
Through engaging anecdotes and clever insights, he reveals how unconventional thinking can unlock creative solutions to complex challenges. This thought-provoking read encourages us to embrace the unexpected, value intuition, and rethink the way we approach innovation and influence, making it a perfect pick for those seeking fresh approaches to drive real change.
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