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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.

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

Envirotec Magazine

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C, and to meet 1.5°C

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from Climate Action Tracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments. Cleantechnica has a full article on that.

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New Roadmap for “Drastic” Response to Global Stocktake

Chris Hall

New research from climate think tanks suggests that “immediate, transformational changes” across every sector are needed by 2030. C are far behind the “pace and scale” required, with experts calling for policymakers to close the global gap in climate action at COP28 later this month.

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Our Sustainable Development Report Card Has Arrived. Did We Pass? 

Sustainable Development Network

That future is framed within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed upon by all member nations of the United Nations in 2015. Regarding climate change, the US is marked “critically insufficient” for 1.5°C They are humanity’s goals for 2030.

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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

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

Countries are required under the Paris Agreement to update their national climate action plans every five years, including at COP26. This year, they’re expected to have ambitious targets through 2030. Are countries on track to meet the international climate goals? Climate Action Tracker.

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