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An authoratarian petrostate takes centre stage as COP29 host

Corporate Knights

At the close of every year, the conscience of the world goes on display at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. The NGO secretly filmed lnur Soltanov, the CEO of COP, discussing oil and gas deals ahead of the climate summit. In 2024, COP29 must dig itself out of a bigger hole.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Landmark 20-year study of climate change impact on permafrost forests

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

During the 20 years from 2003-2022, the team uncovered intriguing findings in the interior of Alaska. A research team conducted perhaps the first long-term observation of CO2 budget in a permafrost forest.

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Reflecting on COP27's Loss and Damage Fund Agreement

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Talk of progression and urgent solutions reverberated throughout the COP27 crowd, during the long-drawn-out summit, as leaders made a desperate bid to clinch climate deals. For that, more than ever, I feel energised by the opportunity to create systemic change for our planet and society by activating people’s potential.”.

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System change investing: High impact, high return

GreenBiz

Nearly all SRI and corporate sustainability strategies focus on changing companies and addressing symptoms, such as climate change, poverty and other major environmental and social challenges. For example, the solution to climate change and deforestation largely does not involve addressing these problems directly.

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VMware Joins the Green Software Foundation

3BL Media

These global catastrophes are already underway and will only get worse…unless we make some drastic and immediate changes to the ways we live and work. With this short timeframe, we’ll all have to work together to catalyze meaningful change. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide since 2003 ( source ).

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New human-caused shifts found in the global water cycle

Envirotec Magazine

Nie and her colleagues focused on three different kinds of shifts or changes in the cycle: first, a trend, such as a decrease in water in a groundwater reservoir; second, a shift in seasonality, like the typical growing season starting earlier in the year, or an earlier snowmelt; and third a change in extreme events, like 100-year floods happening (..)