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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.

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Sustainability & Transition

Sustainable Round Table

As I heard Paul Hawken note to a crowd of more than 20,000 in 2008: “If a history of this time is written, it will be a history of heroes collaborating, creating and overcoming great odds.” It does not reflect the aspirations of environmentalists or even climate scientists. To an outcome no one wants.

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A Dignity First Corporate Demand for Climate Action

Sustainable Round Table

Even though thousands of the world’s most relevant, respected, and peer-reviewed climate scientists have warned for decades that deep, broad, and urgent action is needed to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, which is the primary cause of our climate and ecological breakdown.1 Because carbon emissions continue up, always.