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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.

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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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Take Five: Making Good on a Promise

Chris Hall

If approved, the federal government will be committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030 from 2005 levels. An academic has warned that torrential rain and widespread flooding is “the new normal”, following floods in Northern Ireland this week.

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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. This year, Canada introduced its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan , which aims to achieve 40-45% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2030.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , many countries made binding commitments to reduce their country’s emissions in line with these limits. But progress has to start now.