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Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024

Corporate Knights

It marked the first time the international community assessed its collective progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. The findings confirmed that without increased climate action, the world could face between 2.5C (4.5F) and 2.9C (5.2F) of warming above preindustrial levels.

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

Sofidel dedicates particular and constant attention to the training of the new generations, especially at a time when the ongoing digital revolution, Industry 4.0 Quality Education. and the new needs for sustainability are profoundly innovating the paper sector, with repercussions on production, products, logistics and distribution.

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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. Unless governments act fast to tighten rules on carbon credits, Article 6 could become a dangerous loophole that stalls progress. Image: UNclimatechange , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. Infrastructure 11.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

It says states have a legal responsibility to control them that goes beyond the Paris Agreement. But Akhavan says some states involved in the hearings put forward a “creative reinterpretation” of the opinion’s contents, to deny they had any legal obligations on climate change beyond the Paris Agreement. Inequality 11.

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Brazil’s civil society pledges tested as COP30 climate summit approaches

Eco-Business

From less than 5,000 participants at the first summits in the mid 1990s, attendance jumped to around 30,000 at COP21 in 2015, which produced the Paris Agreement. Attendance is no guarantee of results In recent years, the COPs have grown dramatically. Nearly 84,000 attended COP28 in Dubai.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. He said the US re-joining the effort “will give us more rocket fuel, to drive new innovation and skills”

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Why COP30 must ramp up climate finance for cities

Eco-Business

Related to this story Topics Cities Regions Global Tags deforestation financing infrastructure investment logistics urban planning conservation climate inequality governance urbanisation Paris Agreement nature-based solutions climate risk climate finance transport COP29 COP30 SDGs 10. Inequality 11. Climate 16.