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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Campaigners maintain that stronger ambition is required given that the 2030 target the IMO is working towards — a 40 percent reduction in carbon-intensity emissions — is not aligned with the Paris Agreement in the first place.

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

We Mean Business Coalition

But with the world still off-track to achieve the Paris Agreement, should governments intervene? The telecommunications giant achieved verification in September 2017. At that point, the IPCC was yet to comprehensively outline the difference between the Paris Agreement’s two temperature pathways – 1.5C

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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.

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Turning point: Oil-heavy California sues Big Oil and adopts sweeping climate disclosure rules

Corporate Knights

A glaring improvement on the 2015 Paris Agreement, which didn’t mention fossil fuels, the treaty resolution proposes a global plan to halt the expansion of hydrocarbon production and then phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible. California is not the first government in the country to sue the oil majors.