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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels. As the U.K.

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Methane, coal transition, transport and forest pledges at COP26 still leave substantial emissions gap - Climate Action Tracker

John Englart

New analysis by Climate Action Tracker shows that for the countries that have signed the pledges, they have closed the 2030 emissions gap between a 1.5°C I'd like to say the various pledges made these last two weeks have eliminated the emissions gap, but they haven't.

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement in the first days (much to the surprise of Indian observers) that India would reach net zero emissions by 2070 and generate 50% of its energy from renewables by 2030 helped lower that trajectory to 2.4°C. But with the U.N.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

Leaders from government, business and civil society must put circular solutions on the global agenda and ensure they feature strongly when countries update their national climate pledges ahead of COP27 in Egypt.”. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. C, and to meet 1.5°C

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Given the amount of work Ikeda has put in both nationally and internationally to managing ESG risks, he is sanguine about the pace of progress. “I’m

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Climate policy advocacy is incredibly powerful, but businesses must do more

We Mean Business Coalition

But to build a business case for deep and long-term investments, drive scale and turn targets into concrete action, companies rely on governments to provide an enabling policy environment and level playing field. . C according to Climate Action Tracker. To keep the world on track for 1.5°C

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ESG Explainer: China’s Climate Challenge

Chris Hall

billion kilowatts by 2030. billion kilowatts by 2030. At the Leaders Climate Summit in April 2021, President Xi Jinping announced that China would control coal generation until 2025 when it will start to gradually phase it out. Independent analysts Climate Action Tracker estimate China’s emissions to have been 13.8