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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences. British Petroleum paved the way.

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Podcast: Beyond the Scope of Climate Pledges

3BL Media

Sumit, Jeannie, and Vincent discuss the actual impact of climate pledges post-COP26, the means to accelerate the energy transition, and how private-public partnerships are playing a key role in it. Collective climate action. The fight against climate change is too much for companies and governments to handle alone.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

Last fall, an ambitious survey covering 10 countries found that 84% of young people aged 16 to 25 are at least “moderately worried” about climate change – and 59% are extremely worried. They don’t see the “adults” – in business or government – making any of the hard decisions required to avoid the climate crisis. Next Hydrogen.

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO? The loss of forest cover has stark implications for climate change and biodiversity. What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation?

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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 How can we achieve real world decarbonisation without also slowing down and eventually stopping deforestation?” “They now have a really important role to play by engaging with companies and financing positive change.” .

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. 3 Meanwhile, UNICEF had recently reported that more than a billion children currently faced “deadly” threats from human-caused climate breakdown.