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UN Report Finds Global Climate Plans Insufficient to Hit 1.5 Degree Goal

ESG Today

Current climate plans from the 193 signatory nations to the Paris Agreement are insufficient to achieve the goal to limit warming to 1.5°C, by 2030, compared to 2010 levels, this marked a significant improvement over last year’s assessment of a 13.7% degrees Celsius world.”.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.”

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The Current State of Play on Financing Loss and Damage

Chris Hall

Challenges for assessing loss and damage financing The Paris Agreement discusses loss and damage using the phrase “averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage”. The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, whose functions were agreed upon at COP26 in Glasgow, is gearing to provide only technical assistance on loss and damage.

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Carbon pricing currently too low for a just transition to net-zero, says climate advisory group

Envirotec Magazine

” The document from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG)[1] sets out seven recommendations that it believes global leaders at COP26 must consider to make carbon pricing more effective. It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C

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Three Steps to Energy Efficient Properties

Chris Hall

Following the UK government’s COP26 declaration that all new cars and vans must be 100% zero emission by 2035, there has been a paradigm shift, with an ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles. Solar power as “the cheapest form of electricity in history” at COP26. Increasing demand for installing EV charging points.

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European Commission launches proposals to reach 55% emissions reduction by 2030

Sustainable Development Network

The ‘Fit for 55’ package will help the region reduce its emissions and set it on a path towards achieving the Paris Agreement ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. Moreover, the package comes at a crucial time with a few months to go before the world heads into a new round of climate diplomacy at COP26 in Glasgow.

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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

A laundry list of corporate pledges and climate solutions are on discussion boards here, and one message comes up again and again: there is no meeting Paris Agreement climate targets without halting forest loss. . There are 1.6