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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

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? 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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New Roadmap for “Drastic” Response to Global Stocktake

Chris Hall

Published by Systems Change Lab, the report is a joint effort between the Bezos Earth Fund, Climate Action Tracker (a project of Climate Analytics and New Climate Institute), ClimateWorks Foundation, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and World Resources Institute (WRI).

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place. Climate Change. Shipping & Logistics. Corporate Strategy. Sustainable Shipping. BusinessGreen.

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

Sustainable Development Network

From jobs to climate change to reducing health disparities, our needs are many and investments to meet those needs will require mobilizing significant resources. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad.

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ESG Explainer: China’s Climate Challenge

Chris Hall

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 billion kilowatts by 2030. limit for global warming.

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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

Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. 31 through Nov.

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