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150 financial institutions, managing more than $24 trillion, call on world leaders to adopt ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15 | News and press
Signatories call for governments to adopt a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework which ensures the halting and reversal of nature loss by 2030 Signatories committed to work within their own organizations to support the effective alignment of the proposed vision from the Convention on Biological Diversity of “Living in Harmony with Nature by 2050” Today, 150 financial institutions, representing over $24tn in assets under management, have called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15. Coordinated by the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, the…
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Remarks by the Managing Director at COP27’s Finance Day Opening Ceremony
Remarks by the Managing Director at COP27’s Finance Day Opening Ceremony Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt November 9, 2022 Ministers, colleagues, and friends. How many of us were in Glasgow for COP26? It was just a short year ago. The weather was gloomy, but the economic outlook was bright: in 2021, we were recovering from COVID, and we finished the year with 6.1 percent global GDP growth. And then the world changed with dramatic crisis, after crisis. As a result—today—while we have beautiful weather here in Sharm-el-Sheik,…
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LOSSAN Board Appoints Jason Jewell as Managing Director
Jewell has served as interim director since April and has extensive experience in transportation and finance ORANGE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Jason Jewell is appointed Managing Director of the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency, the second busiest intercity passenger rail corridor in the nation. Jason Jewell is appointed Managing Director of the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo (LOSSAN) Rail Corridor Agency. The LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency Board of Directors at its meeting on Tuesday unanimously appointed Jewell, who has been serving as the interim Managing Director since April. Jewell has worked for the LOSSAN Agency for seven years. Prior to his appointment earlier this…
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