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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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Less, Better and for Longer: Five Ways Paris 2024 Is Delivering More Sustainable Games

3BL Media

Targeting a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016, Paris 2024 has addressed the broadest category of emissions, also covering the indirect footprint of the Games (scope 3 emissions) such as spectator travel. All seats in the Centre are made from recycled local plastic waste.

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How European Climate Policy Can Bolster Energy Efficiency Measures

3BL Media

C target set out under the Paris Agreement in 2015. That means better incentivizing end-users to consume their energy as efficiently as possible, minimizing unnecessary waste. Digital technologies render energy waste visible. The findings could scarcely be starker. EU regulators are responding to this challenge.

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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. It identifies the biggest sources of emissions, and suggests tangible measures to reduce them.

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Intern, Food and Land Use on the Global Climate Agenda

Sustainable Development Network

Sachs and operates through offices in New York, Paris, and Kuala Lumpur. Le Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) a été fondé en 2012 sous les auspices du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour soutenir la mise en œuvre des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) et l'Accord de Paris sur le changement climatique.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. does not account for carbon loss from the wood pellet industry because it is no longer part of the Paris Agreement on climate change. .

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Microsoft CSO Says AI Widens Gap – and Offers Solutions – to Meeting Climate Goals

ESG Today

Microsoft launched a series of moonshot sustainability goals in 2020, including commitments to become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, as well as to protect more land than it uses by that date. return to the Paris Agreement, and on energy issues including the international energy response to the war in Ukraine.