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Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment nearly 400 times

Corporate Knights

A 20-year Voting Record Poilievre was first elected as a Conservative MP in 2004. “We’re going to clear the way for pipelines,” he has promised. “I I am going to support pipelines south, north, east, west. We will build Canadian pipelines.”

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Scaling private sector climate action: What can we learn from the Paris Agreement?

We Mean Business Coalition

And to do that, various mechanisms and processes have been set out in the Paris Agreement to guide governments and hold them to account. So, what can companies learn from what is already done under the Paris Agreement, to help measure and manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and scale their climate action?

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. Human activity is overloading the natural carbon cycle.

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COP30 and the business of conservation

We Mean Business Coalition

It is when 190+ countries will come together to review their national climate plans and investments 10 years after adopting the Paris Agreement and amid intensifying climate impacts and geopolitical tensions. However, challenges remain in ensuring that conservation efforts persist alongside agricultural intensification.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Joining the America Is All In pledge supporting the Paris Agreement in December is an early indicator. Rather than invest capital directly in renewable-energy projects, he wants NRG to provide long-term contracts that improve their financeability.

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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?

Renewable Energy World

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme.

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

To put this in perspective, Kees van der Leun tweeted last month, ” Annual global solar PV market hit the 1 GW mark in 2004. However, we are barely reaching a third of the necessary carbon cuts to make the Paris Agreements a success. In 2016, the world added 138.5 GW of renewables to the grids.