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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Among their suggestions: that future COPs be hosted only by countries that have demonstrated a commitment to the Paris Agreement and that corporate players who are not aligned with the UNs climate goals not be allowed to attend.

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Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment nearly 400 times

Corporate Knights

After Conservative leader Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006, and until Harper was voted out in 2015, Poilievre voted in lockstep with his party on a barrage of regulation-eviscerating bills, according to federal Green Party leader and MP Elizabeth May.

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Inogen Alliance Presents at COP29 in Azerbaijan

3BL Media

Abdel-Aziz is currently the co-chair of Sharm El Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Program under the Paris Agreement. Dr. Abdel-Aziz is a member of the Methodologies Panel of the CDM Executive Board since 2005 and a member of the Methodologies Expert Panel of Article 6.4.

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Qualcomm’s 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report: A Message From Our CEO

3BL Media

Since 2006, our Wireless Reach program has directly and indirectly supported over 27 million people. This year, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) approved our corporate GHG reduction targets as consistent with the latest climate science and the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement.

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Greater Collaboration and Transparency in Reporting Are Key to a More Sustainable Semiconductor Industry

3BL Media

C under the Paris Agreement. 7] 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, 6.58, Table 6.17. [8] The threat posed by climate change is motivating efforts around the world to improve corporate sustainability, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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GOOD and the UN celebrate Leap Day by remembering the most important 'leaps' in the climate change fight

Good.is: Planet

via JD Lasica / Flickr 2006 — Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" In the 1980s, while in the U.S. via UN Climate Change / Flickr 2016 — The Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement is a landmark international agreement that ushered in a new era in the fight against climate change.

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Net Zero Leaders Thrive on Climate Risk – Robeco

Chris Hall

The firm then tracked the difference in returns generated by the portfolio’s polluting and clean companies between January 2006 and August 2021, using its climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and temperature anomaly indices – the former constructed by “focusing on the textual similarities of authoritative texts on climate change”. .