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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. As the U.K. has a role to play in pushing for the highest possible ambition at this week's talks.

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COP26: Statement from the We Mean Business Coalition

We Mean Business Coalition

As we approach the critical final stages of COP26, the We Mean Business Coalition is calling on governments to take bold decisions to keep the 1.5°C C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. . We ask for the final COP26 decision texts to: . C w ithin reach ; and .

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Using Carbon Markets To Fuel the Energy Transition

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at how the carbon finance options defined at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) can help cut greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction costs for power utilities and large energy consumers. Four Ways Development Agencies Can Advance Carbon Markets.

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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change. Back then, I wouldn’t have believed that we would come so far in international collaboration on climate change, such as the Paris Agreement,” he said.

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1.5°C “Goalposts” Must Not Be Moved Post-COP28

Chris Hall

C temperature increase are moved it could jeopardise investor attempts to reach Paris Agreement targets. Climate change experts have warned 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, and last month BBC analysis found there had been a record number of days for breaches of the 1.5°C trillion in 2023 to US$4.5

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Amazon Bond a “Template” for Upscaling Carbon Removals

Chris Hall

of the original Amazon biome has been lost, largely due to deforestation, which equates to more than 85 million hectares – an area equivalent to 10% of the size of the US or China. 2023 reports from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) found that the world is severely failing on halting and reversing deforestation. billion), it added.

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VCM Code of Practice Launches, with Google, Unilever and Hitachi on Board

Chris Hall

At the same time, carbon offsetting has come in for criticism for being a substitute for real climate action, distracting from the challenge of cutting emissions from business and industrial processes in line with the targets set out in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. .