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Technology Collaborations and Innovations to Accelerate Climate Progress

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The annual United Nations Climate Change report - coinciding with the 27 th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt - concludes that while countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions downward, accelerated progress and collaboration are critical to our planet’s future.

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From Ambition to Action

Chris Hall

Each country will need to submit National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) – akin to nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement – and National Biodiversity Finance Plans (NBFPs) before the meetings begin on 21 October. It also recommended policy actions for risk mitigation.

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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. This puts the world at risk of missing the goal set out in the Paris Agreement of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana injected a unique sense of optimism that steered world leaders to reach the Paris Agreement in 2015. She is Convener of Mission 2020 , an initiative to ensure the world bends the curve on greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 protecting the most vulnerable.

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

Corporate Knights

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. However, the risks from biodiversity loss are enormous. About US$44 trillion per year of this global output is dependent on nature.

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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.” With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.”