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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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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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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”. .

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

Sustainable Development Network

An example of his pioneering innovative transdisciplinary approach to these issues can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. Sachs’ participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been vital.

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Shell Case Signals Wider Shift

Chris Hall

However, the recent case brought against Royal Dutch Shell by ClientEarth, an environmental charity which seeks to use the law to create systemic change, relies on a piece of legislation which came into effect as long ago as 2006 and applies to every company incorporated in the UK. Defining duties.

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Film review: An inconvenient sequel

Edouard Stenger

I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. It is focusing on the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement. I have mix feelings about it. million people. Found on wikipedia, this is a 2009 figure so to-date numbers would be much much higher…).