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ESG Explainer: Managing the Methane Menace

Chris Hall

Six months on from COP26’s Global Methane Pledge, the quick wins needed to achieve 2030 targets pose steep challenges. At COP26, 112 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge , an initiative designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030. Delivering on the pledge could reduce warming by at least 0.2?C

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.

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Biden’s Climate Ambition Weathers a Political Storm

Chris Hall

billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2020 alone, said the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). Most notably, the EPA had its authority to write greenhouse gas regulations curtailed by the Supreme Court in June. . The US has a credibility that it didn’t have at COP26,” he says. . It produced 5.99