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How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada

Corporate Knights

Climate Action Tracker, a research group that follows the progress made by the countries that generate about 85% of global emissions, considers the climate policies Canada has drafted thus far to be “highly insufficient.

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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. C path and government targets by around 9% - or 2.2.

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Guest Post: Prof Bill Hare on Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

John Englart

When we published our analysis in December on Climate Action Tracker, a global assessment of government climate action, we warned Australia was unlikely to achieve its net

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

The frontrunning proposal, sponsored by France, Germany and Japan, has come under fire due to a recommendation that stringent enforcement of operational efficiency regulations is introduced no earlier than 2029.

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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.

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

Envirotec Magazine

World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C a further 19-23 billion tonnes of annual emissions must be cut by 2030, Climate Action Tracker calculates.[1]. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. However, new pledges still leave the world on course for 2.4°C, C, and to meet 1.5°C

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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

Countries agreed to return for the next round of climate talks in November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with stronger commitments to put the world on track for 1.5°C. The Climate Action Tracker estimates the global average temperature increase based on national policies. New Climate Institute and Climate Analytics.

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