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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act.

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Investors Go Salmon Fishing With Climate Scientists

3BL Media

Renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, are critical cogs in the world’s transition to net zero carbon emission. The topics are diverse—from the consistency of renewable energy sources to the relationship between ocean changes and North Sea salmon farms. Renewables Reliability: How Steadily Will the Wind Blow?

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Tiffany & Co. Commits to Science-Based Climate Targets

3BL Media

announces its plans to accelerate its commitment to combat climate change with a pledge to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and supply chain (Scope 3) by 2040 in accordance with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Standard.

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The Continued Growth of Green Jobs

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Since 2017, jobs requiring green skills have been steadily increasing as government agencies and companies started to realize that they needed to step up their commitments and actions in order to achieve climate and sustainability goals. In December, GreenBiz noted they expect demand to create millions of new jobs worldwide by 2030.

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Should businesses be legally required to set science-based targets?

We Mean Business Coalition

However, with more than 90% of global GDP now covered by net-zero targets set nationally or regionally, this change may well come in the not-too-distant future. The telecommunications giant achieved verification in September 2017. At the moment, top-level pledges from nations and regions remain, in many cases, just that.

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Carbon Capture and Storage, Today and Tomorrow

Sense and Sustainability

For decades, the idea of capturing carbon—either from emissions sites or from the atmosphere itself—was relegated to arcane discussions among climate scientists. The report’s authors argued for aggressive exploration of the “possibilities of deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes.” In 1965, the U.S.

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Are Saskatchewan's new oil and gas high school classes setting up students for dead-end jobs?

Corporate Knights

Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts. C, as agreed upon in the Paris Agreement , countries must reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions 45 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.