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Public Policy Forum urges government to help finance oil and gas emission reductions

Corporate Knights

More than 400 scientists and academics signed a letter in January urging the federal government to kill any plan to provide a tax credit to spur industry investment in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), one of the key tools companies propose to use to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. “We

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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles

Envirotec Magazine

The publication came with a stark warning that while the UK is making some progress in tackling key environmental issues, a lot more collaboration and action is needed from businesses to achieve the level of change required, and to keep climate goals within reach.

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

How to Set Business Targets That Help Address Climate Change (Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash ) This article by Matthew Lynch , Rob Klassen , and Chelsea Hicks-Webster is part of “ The Basics ” series by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) that provides essential knowledge about core business sustainability topics.

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Filling Canada’s Policy Void

Chris Hall

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures. It ignores that some investments are still enabling climate change.

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ETS Must Address its Architectural Cracks

Chris Hall

The EU’s Emission Trading System (ETS) was created in 2005, forming a cornerstone of the region’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80-95% by 2050. For the ETS to remain the flagship scheme, fighting climate change at the lowest cost possible, a series of supply, reporting and compliance changes are called for.

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Spike in energy prices suggests that sharp changes are ahead

Gail Tverberg

The 2005 to 2008 period was another period of concern that the world might be running out of oil. The world’s biggest problem is climate change.” ” In fact, there was no real reason to believe that the shortage situation had changed. 9] Major changes for the worse seem to be ahead for the world economy.