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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Or, in the words of James Marape, president of Papua New Guinea, theyre now a total waste of time. The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. For the last 30 years, COP has been the planets main vehicle of hope for averting climate catastrophe. Shes changed her mind.

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O-I Glass Announces New Ambitious 2030 Sustainability Goals

3BL Media

Energy Management : Weve created an energy strike team to find and destroy energy waste across our network. Aligning with the Paris Agreement The elevated sustainability goals reflect O-Is decisive action to better position the company as a leader in sustainable glass manufacturing. It does not cause end-of-life waste issues.

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Four reasons to be hopeful about the planned global plastics treaty

Corporate Knights

Instead, it envisages a treaty akin to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions. This is much harder to obfuscate than the Paris agreement’s aim of ensuring that the global average temperature does not rise 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Plastic product life cycles.

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Inogen Alliance Presents at COP29 in Azerbaijan

3BL Media

As technology reshapes how businesses, governments, and individuals approach responsible resource management, the discussion will focus on AI's unparalleled potential to drive resource efficiency, minimize waste, and accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

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. Most of these reductions were made from 2015 to 2021 when Enel shut down some 40 of its 50 coal power plants fast and furiously (from 31% of generation capacity to 6%).

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Oracle, Amazon make major renewable energy-based announcements

Renewable Energy World

Hardware recycling: Continuing its efforts to reduce e-waste, in FY20, Oracle collected 2.5 Reducing waste : Oracle has decreased the amount of waste sent to landfill at Oracle-owned buildings by 25% on a square foot basis since 2015. million pounds of retired hardware assets, of which 99.6% was either reused or recycled.