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Corporate commitments for net zero by 2050 rely on climate transition action plans from 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

Countries are beginning to bend the curve, the UNFCCC’s synthesis report outlines , but commitments and actions are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emissions reductions required to put us on track to stay within 1.5? Further, not nearly enough companies are developing and disclosing credible climate action plans.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. The newly launched international initiative Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is developing a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related financial risks.

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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

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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Five Reasons Your Company Needs A Climate Transition Action Plan

We Mean Business Coalition

Countries are starting to bend the curve of global greenhouse emissions downwards, according to the UN , and the latest International Energy Agency data suggests global emissions from energy may be starting to plateau. Companies and businesses are under increasing pressure to take immediate, demonstrable climate action.

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

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. A Trans Mountain Pipeline Bailout?