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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

These young people have grown up under the shadow of climate change, and they rightly view it as a threat to their future. during model years 2009-2015, which meant these vehicles’ emissions were far greater than advertised. In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA?

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Staying the Course

Chris Hall

But the favourable shift in investors’ consciousness has been buffeted by global headwinds of late, including the changing geopolitical environment and energy shortages, a cost-of-living crisis, rising inflation and interest rates, and the politicisation of ESG – particularly in US. The risk of greenwashing has also been a growing concern.

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Rethinking Former GE CEO Jack Welch’s Legacy Offers Insight Into the Future of American Capitalism

Just Capital

Then there came this moment in 2009, when in conversation with my former colleague Francesco Guerrero at the Financial Times, he said shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Under Gary Gensler, the SEC is very clearly working to reduce and also police “greenwashing.”

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US Insurers Escape Climate Censure at AGMs

Chris Hall

Insurers need to better recognise that failing to address climate change is a huge business risk, Le Bourdonnec added. “It makes good business sense for insurers to make ambitious climate commitments, as the impacts are impacting profitability,” he said. And frankly is greenwashing.

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Article 6: Climate tool or trap?

Eco-Business

Without urgent reform, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risks enabling large-scale greenwashing and undermining global climate goals. If left unchecked, this blind spot could enable industrial and international-scale greenwashing of NDCs, deepening the ‘credibility crisis’ that has long plagued the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

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Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them

Eco-Business

Cities must ban them The promotion of oil, coal and gas is poisoning our environment, driving climate change and slowing the clean energy transition. Fossil fuels are a primary climate change driver, and a direct threat to human health. As health professionals, we believe banning these ads is not censorship. Visit [link].

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