{"id":1120,"date":"2020-09-28T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26381"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:31:00","slug":"leaders-pledge-to-put-climate-change-as-priority-of-post-covid-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/leaders-pledge-to-put-climate-change-as-priority-of-post-covid-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Pledge to Put Climate Change as Priority of Post-COVID Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The minister challenged all business leaders to join the Race to Net Zero, launched by the UN and the UK government and the largest global alliance of companies and non-state actors committed to reach net zero by 2050 at the latest. The alliance counts almost 1,000 businesses, 38 investors, and nearly 500 cities and regions among its members, representing 53% of global GDP, $72 trillion in annual revenue and 23% of global emissions, he said.<\/p>\n

Swedish furniture giant IKEA has already committed to take its entire value chain climate-positive by 2030. \u201cWe recognize that this is most likely the most important decade in the history of humankind,\u201d said Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer of IKEA, which has also committed to the 1.5C target. Hitting that will take practical, engineered solutions, based on science-based targets to provide \u201cenough proof points\u201d that the company is moving in the right direction. \u201cNothing will change only by commitment,\u201d Brodin said. He said IKEA has taken this bold step because \u201cit is not basically OK to hand over [the problem] to the next generation of leaders\u201d. He emphasized that prioritizing sustainability should not be seen as a sacrifice. \u201cThis is the new business model of the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Swiss multinational Nestl\u00e9 has signed up to the UN\u2019s net-zero target by 2050, and Chief Executive Mark Schneider committed to deliver his specific time-bound plan on how to execute this target by the end of this year. Schneider told the summit that the key elements to hit global climate goals are ambition, metrics and realism. \u201cThe single biggest thing in the short term that we can do to help the climate situation is to stop deforestation in our supply chains,\u201d he said. Nestl\u00e9 expects to have arrested 90% of such deforestation by the end of 2020, but the last 10% poses \u201cinteresting trade-offs\u201d between avoiding deforestation and promoting rural livelihoods.<\/p>\n

He injected urgency into the debate, saying: \u201cWe\u2019re running out of time and if you really want to unleash some energy and motivation\u2026it\u2019s important to also consider high-quality offsets that are related to your operations.\u201d Using such offsets, some of Nestl\u00e9\u2019s subsidiaries, such as Perrier, could achieve carbon neutrality as early as 2022.<\/p>\n

The US tech giant Apple has announced it will take its entire supply chain carbon-neutral by 2030. This means understanding how your suppliers use their energy, monitoring that usage and helping them along the transition, said Lisa P. Jackson, Apple\u2019s Vice-President. The problem is not always money but also about know-how. Clean energy can be cheaper, but companies need to know which energy investments make most sense.<\/p>\n

Jackson highlighted the importance of ensuring that carbon-neutral programmes bring more equity and justice to people\u2019s lives. Addressing the issue of carbon-offsetting, she agreed they had to be high-quality, saying: \u201cIf the price of offsets is higher, that means we\u2019re forced to go back and invest in clean energy and other mitigation attempts.\u201d She added: \u201cIf business is going to be in the lead\u2026we have to be rigorous about the accounting we use so that we don\u2019t gain the system and so that we\u2019re making actual positive change and not cosmetic changes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner of Global Optimism, UK, and Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016), hailed these corporate commitments as \u201cabsolutely fantastic\u201d and said they demonstrated \u201cthe extraordinary power of publicly stated ambition\u201d. Figueres added that these companies \u201care proving the Paris Agreement wrong\u2026because their goals of decarbonization and carbon neutrality are actually pushing the envelope and showing that decarbonization by 2050 is not only possible it\u2019s actually even late, because we can get to decarbonize the economy before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Figueres pointed to some fundamental shifts taking place in corporate thinking, from the shareholder primacy of the Milton Friedman era towards embracing stakeholder capitalism, and from quarterly thinking towards quarter-century planning. She closed by pointing to the \u201cincredible role\u201d that digitalization will play in driving an exponential rather than linear transition to net zero in the coming decades.<\/p>\n

About the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2020<\/strong>
The fourth World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit<\/strong> comes at a time unlike any other. Under the theme, Realizing a Great Reset for Sustainable Development, this year\u2019s summit brings together more than 3,800 leaders from government, business and civil society. From more than 141 countries, voices at the cutting edge of sustainable development are meeting virtually for the first time. They will share new perspectives to initiate, accelerate and scale-up entrepreneurial solutions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals and tackle climate change.<\/p>\n

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Geneva, Switzerland, September 28, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The UK Government pledged today to put climate change at the heart of the global recovery from COVID-19. \u201cWe will use the COP26 presidency and our G7 presidency to champion a clean, inclusive and resilient global recovery and put climate change front and centre of the post-COVID …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[314,106,116,109,257,524,525,117,121,118,119,111,112,108,114,120],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-bernard-metzger","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-klaus-schwab","tag-lifestyle","tag-nes","tag-nicole-schwab","tag-tourism-updates","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unwto-news","tag-updates","tag-wef","tag-world","tag-world-economic-forum","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}