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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. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. C, and to meet 1.5°C

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Public Support for International Climate Action: September 2021

Environmental News Bits

Download the document. Summary: The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow Scotland (UK) beginning on October 31, 2021.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

Finance will obviously be the enabling factor in making the kind of transition that is required, so it’s a problem if accounting systems continue to act as if nature is “free to use”, a key issue pinpointed earlier this year by The Dasgupta Review , hailed at the time as a landmark document. Putting a price on pollution.

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Concrete actions to increase the sustainability of food and land still missing from COP26 climate pledges 

Sustainable Development Network

A new report by SDSN’s Food, Environment, Land and Development (FELD) Action Tracker explores the extent to which key countries include transformations of food and land systems—necessary to meet both climate and Sustainable Development Goals—in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted before COP26.

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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. As the U.K. has a role to play in pushing for the highest possible ambition at this week's talks.

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6 Key Tasks at COP27

Chris Hall

At the closing of COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, one of the headline questions centered on how countries would address the need for finance to address loss and damage , those impacts from climate change that are so severe communities are simply unable to adapt to them. Scale up support for adaptation. Established under Article 7.1

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COP27: Breakthrough on Funding Repair of Climate Damage, Frustration on Fighting Climate Change

ESG Today

The final agreement, however, was not more ambitious than last year’s COP26 document, removing the 2025 peak emissions goal at the last minute, and only reiterating the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C. According to COP26 President Alok Sharma, even maintaining last year’s progress proved challenging.