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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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AllianceBernstein: Nurturing Nature - Why Investors Should Care About Biodiversity

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Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. That’s why biodiversity loss alone could cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the coming years, in addition to trillions more related to climate change.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

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Heck, it didn’t even seem to be enough in 2013 when John Cook and other researchers determined that 97.1% When you compare those costs (and the long-term savings they will yield in the form of a more efficient global economy) against the costs of inaction, they show a clear choice. " #blog [link]. KEYWORDS: Ray C.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

James Militzer

By 2018, the government had enshrined the goal of creating an “ecological civilization ” — essentially a global life economy — into China’s constitution. This strategy has generated impressive results: To take one example, from 2013 to 2020, as reported in Bloomberg , China reduced air pollution nearly as much as the U.S.

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Energy Crisis Gives Coal Stay of Execution

Chris Hall

billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. “In It said: “Based on current economic and market trends, global coal consumption is forecast to rise by 0.7% That takes it back to the level seen in the record year 2013. billion in 2021, from US$362.4 in 2022 to 8 billion tonnes.”

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State of Corporate Conservation 2023: The Journey Towards Nature Positivity

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That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. Basically, nature positive is biodiversity’s net zero with a critical difference: While net zero is a destination, nature positive is a journey. This is more than the combined value of the market cap of Toyota, Bayer, WM and Shell. and 45 in Mexico.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. Nature is the substrate of everything including our economy. billion and Canada added $30 billion in new funding for the climate. This job is on us.”