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Comment: Four steps toward a sustainable, resilient future post COP27

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Not enough. That is the conclusion that many have taken from COP27. Including myself as an observer representing the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, an international alliance of values-based financial institutions.

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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.

But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

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