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The Climate Blockers: BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game

Corporate Knights

But in the blistering summer of 2018, there was nothing celebratory about the Rhine. The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. You’d expect a company so directly affected by climate change to be jumping on the decarbonization bandwagon.

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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.

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

Corporate Knights

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. increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February). That work was meant to conclude by 2020. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets?

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

trillion in real estate assets under management now committed to halving emissions by 2030, along with 20% of architects and engineers. . And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities.

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