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At COP27, Investors, Companies, and Policymakers Must Accelerate Urgent Action on the Climate and Water Crises To Cut Emissions in Half by 2030

3BL Media

The risks to global economies, natural systems, and communities are beyond catastrophic if urgent action isn’t taken in the near term to reverse climate change. Now is the time for the most ambitious and urgent action on the global climate and water crisis. Co-hosted by AIGCC, CDP, Ceres, IGCC, IIGCC, PRI and UNEP FI.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Dr Amr Abdel-Aziz , President of Cairo-based Integral Consult – part of the global Inogen Alliance of environmental consulting firms, played an essential role at COP27, as a member of the presidency team serving as the Lead of the “Mitigation and Transparency” Teams.

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Why Investing in Waste Matters

Chris Hall

Waste management is a big – and growing – business, as the global scale of solid waste generation reaches vast proportions. Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as shown in the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024. billion tonnes.

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Water Must Be “Third Peak” in Climate, Nature Challenge

Chris Hall

Martha Rojas Urrego, Commissioner at the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, went one step further and stressed that there are “very clear” links between nature and climate change, but little focus is paid to their interlinkage of water.

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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C

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First International Day Of Zero Waste Asks Us To Look Within To Address Global Pollution Crisis

CleanTechnica

Waste costs the global economy billions of dollars each year,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said. “The waste crisis is undermining the Earth’s ability to sustain life.

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