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IOC Welcomes Admission As Observer Organisation to UN Climate Change

3BL Media

COP21 in 2015 produced the historic Paris Agreement, while last year’s COP28 brought agreement on the need to phase out the use of fossil fuels. These bring together world leaders, diplomats, scientists, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs), journalists, and various other stakeholders.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement.

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

McKinsey & Company declared carbon neutrality in 2018 and has set emissions reductions in line with the Paris Agreement, including a 60 percent reduction in purchased energy by 2030 and by 90 percent by 2050. Another business consulting heavyweight, Bain & Company, was declared carbon neutral by Natural Capital Partners in 2012.

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Courts open the door to more climate lawsuits

Corporate Knights

In 2012, the same court decided that the federal government’s decision to leave the Kyoto Protocol was also not a matter for the courts. In the challenges at issue, the court found that the federal government’s commitments under the Paris Agreement provided a sufficient legal anchor. A turning tide?

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We, Sofidel. Our Passions Fuel Our Future

3BL Media

These 13 were read and interpreted by photographer Pietro Paolini, founder of the “TerraProject Photographers” collective and winner of the World Press Photo in 2012 and the Marco Pesaresi Prize for contemporary photography in 2013. An external jury then had the task of selecting 13 of them. www.sofidel.com. Sofidel Press Office.

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Jeffrey Sachs Awarded 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for Leading Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development Network

Sachs’ pursuit to achieve the MDGs led to his engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from their very inception at the “Rio+20” conference in June 2012. To promote the SDGs, in 2012, Prof. Sachs’ participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been vital. Sachs has played a unique role in both.

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Paris 2024: High Ambitions for Lower-Carbon Games

3BL Media

In a bold move defined during the candidature phase, the Paris 2024 Committee pledged to halve carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016.