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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

A laundry list of corporate pledges and climate solutions are on discussion boards here, and one message comes up again and again: there is no meeting Paris Agreement climate targets without halting forest loss. . It’s all part of the drum-beating prelude to the 27th UN climate summit taking place in Egypt this November. There are 1.6

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. Emissions peaking before 2025 as the science tells us is necessary? Not in this text.

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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. waters by 2025 as it works to make domestic shipping net-zero by mid-century. As the U.K.

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G7 Leaders Support Development of Global Sustainable Disclosure Standards

ESG Today

Leaders of leading industrial nations at the Japan-hosted G7 summit in Hiroshima made a series of announcements in support of their Paris Agreement commitments to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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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. In September, the Labour government announced plans to set the UK’s nationally determined contributions for 2035 between November 2024 and February 2025.

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Here’s how developing countries can do more on climate

Renewable Energy World

Our planet faces an unprecedented slate of climate risks, and world leaders are gathering at COP26 in Glasgow next month with a mandate to stave off disaster. Under the Paris Agreement , which the U.S. The Paris Agreement and the Copenhagen convention before it included national financial commitments.

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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.