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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry

GreenBiz

Looking forward, with customers, investors and policymakers increasing pressure to adhere to the Paris Agreement, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical element of maintaining competitiveness. Indeed, in these locations zero-carbon steel can be competitive with blast furnaces completely without subsidies.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

trillion to coal, oil and gas companies in the five years since the Paris Agreement was signed, it calculates. We believe that Barclays can make a real contribution to tackling climate change and help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.". Overall, the world's leading banks have channelled $3.8

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We’ve taken stock of corporate climate action and business knows what it needs to deliver the clean energy transition

We Mean Business Coalition

Our process was launched in May in support of the Global Stocktake (GST) process – the UNFCCC led report card on progress since the Paris Agreement.  The Synthesis report released last week confirmed what we already knew, “the world is not on track to meet the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.”

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UN climate conference more productive than you think

Sense and Sustainability

Fortunately, the ‘ambition mechanism’ from the Paris Agreement — the process it establishes to periodically review countries’ progress toward meeting their commitments to address climate change, and to ratchet up their ambition over time — worked. This is a welcome step.

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A Just Transition is an Orderly Transition

Chris Hall

In the race to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, many companies are jeopardising success by leaving workers and communities behind. The decarbonisation of our global economy is most likely to succeed in the short timeframe required if those most affected by the transition are brought on the journey.

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FABLE Consortium co-leads "Transforming food systems" chapter of the 2022 Emissions Gap Report

Sustainable Development Network

gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, less than one per cent, off projected global emissions in 2030. This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. NDCs submitted this year take only 0.5 C over the century.

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Scaling up clean energy – the greatest growth proposition of the 21st century

We Mean Business Coalition

The cost of climate change is rising at an alarming pace, with ripple effects being felt across communities and the global economy. Many countries across Asia also lack access to sufficient financing to fully develop low or zero-carbon infrastructure.