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New framework for CO2 offsets could create "cowboy carbon markets," critics warn

Corporate Knights

For the first time carbon credits will be recognized under the Paris Agreement, enabling countries and companies to use offsets to meet their carbon reduction targets, potentially giving a huge boost to carbon credit trading. At least one major international bank, HSBC, is voting with its feet.

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Inogen Alliance Presents at COP29 in Azerbaijan

3BL Media

Our team attending and presenting includes our local Associate, Sustainera Solutions with Ilkin Hajiyev and team, who has been involved since it was announced that Baku would be the next location. Abdel-Aziz is currently the co-chair of Sharm El Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Program under the Paris Agreement.

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Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities

GreenBiz

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

Carbon capture might be such a solution with the potential to play a key role in this transition, and this feasibility study presents a unique opportunity for us to work with some of our key customers to understand and assess the technical and economic challenges involved in making carbon capture work onboard vessels," he said.

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7 roles to create sustainable success

GreenBiz

We have the blueprints to make this happen, from the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, but we need people who can get us there. While the roles Wijdoogen describes are nothing new, the way she presents them is invaluable. That’s where Wijdoogen’s book comes in.

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Paris Agreement temperature targets may worsen climate injustice for many island states

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

or 2 degrees Celsius over the preindustrial average, increasing meltwater from ice sheets presents an existential threat to the viability of island and coastal nations throughout the world. While the world focuses on limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5

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Taking stock of Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley's recent climate commitments

GreenBiz

Specifically, JPMorgan Chase announced in October that it would shape its financing portfolio in three key sectors to align with the Paris Agreement; three days later, HSBC announced its statement of net-zero ambition. Tools for analysis. Disclosure and reporting.

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