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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Is the Competition Bureau's probe into RBC's climate claims a warning to other banks?

Corporate Knights

“If the Competition Bureau’s inquiry confirms that RBC’s statements are misleading and false, RBC could be forced to stop advertising itself as supporting the principles of the Paris Agreement and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions targets by 2050.”. Lately, he said the Bureau’s interest in greenwashing appears to be rising.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping.

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Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme

Envirotec Magazine

The exclusion means the UK will fail in its obligations under the Paris Agreement and instead has concentrated on the need to achieve net zero by 2050. The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions.

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Courts open the door to more climate lawsuits

Corporate Knights

Courts around the world are increasingly being asked to determine whether governments and Crown corporations are doing enough to address climate change. In the past, Canadian courts indicated climate change fell on the other side of that line.

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Ericsson's Approach to Environmental Sustainability

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Climate change is one of the most urgent global challenges. Ericsson will continue to address rising requirements and stakeholder expectations on the Company, particularly regarding transparency around climate-related business impacts. C ambition set by the Paris Agreement. SOURCE: Ericsson.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. Climate Strategy. Various climate change-related placards carried by protesters at the Global Climate Strike Rally and March in downtown San Francisco in September 2019. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 BusinessGreen. Shutterstock.