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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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To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success

GreenBiz

Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. In this refreshed, robust definition, a strategy for “Net-Zero” greenhouse gas emissions can earn its capital letters if it is: Fully-scoped , Science-based , Paris Agreement-compliant and Cumulative.

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COP29 Ends with Target to Triple Climate Finance to $300 Billion per Year

ESG Today

One of the key outcomes of the conference was an agreement on the creation of a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), aimed at aligning global financial flows with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, with nations agreeing that climate financing for developing nations should reach at least $1.3

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O-I Glass Announces New Ambitious 2030 Sustainability Goals

3BL Media

Aligning with the Paris Agreement The elevated sustainability goals reflect O-Is decisive action to better position the company as a leader in sustainable glass manufacturing. This aligns O-I with the target of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit the temperature increase to 1.5

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Four reasons to be hopeful about the planned global plastics treaty

Corporate Knights

Instead, it envisages a treaty akin to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions. There is no equivalent provision in the Paris agreement. The Paris agreement includes a similar request with regards to adapting to climate change. Existing plastic pollution.

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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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Who are the top PR firms greenwashing Big Oil at COP29?

Corporate Knights

The climate plans of both companies, like those of the majority of the fossil fuel industry, are incompatible with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement between nations to keep global heating “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6