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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” billion in 2020/21 and another $1.5

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

Paul Polman has been honoured with France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, in recognition of his role in the historic 2015 U.N. Climate Change agreement in Paris. She is Convener of Mission 2020 , an initiative to ensure the world bends the curve on greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 protecting the most vulnerable.