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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from Climate Action Tracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments. Cleantechnica has a full article on that.

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

Envirotec Magazine

billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4 World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C a further 19-23 billion tonnes of annual emissions must be cut by 2030, Climate Action Tracker calculates.[1]. billion last year. of materials cycled. C, and to meet 1.5°C

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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World leaders pledged to cut GHG emissions dramatically by 2030. So far, they’re blowing it.

Corporate Knights

A new Corporate Knights analysis and accountability tool, Earth Index , has revealed that G20 countries, responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, remain far off track from meeting their climate targets. Its performance was second last to Russia – also a large oil and gas producer – between 2016 and 2019.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Climate Action Tracker (CAT) argues that Australia does not have a net zero target, arguing the federal government’s mid-century goal is not backed up by concrete commitments. Its interim target is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030.