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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act. "It As the U.K. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Global businesses should apply this foundational principle to the private enterprises that public authorities charter.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.