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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

“The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years,” the UN agency states in its Sixth Assessment Report , a final synthesis that brings together six in-depth science and policy reports dating back to October, 2018. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

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The announcement also connects to an international initiative under which Canada and Argentina launched a peer review of each other’s fossil fuel subsidies in 2018. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February). That work was meant to conclude by 2020.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Rasmussen expects the scheme to meet its target – self-imposed, but in line with the protocol set by the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) – to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its listed equities and corporate bonds by 45% by the end of 2024, from a 2018 base. C at best. Lee suggests not. “In