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On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action

GreenBiz

December marks the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement — a turning point for the movement to limit dangerous climate change and environmental destruction. These leaders understood the direct linkage between climate change and financial risk. On the fifth anniversary of the TCFD, a call to action. Ateli Iyalla.

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What is the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

Sphera

The scientific community holds strongly recommends that the average global temperature increase must be limited to increase be limited to 1.5 °C C - 2° C compared to the pre-industrial era, to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. C to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

But carbon is also moving constantly through the global economy, which historically has been powered by burning fossil fuels for energy. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. emissions in 2018.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Since I shared with my guests a deep concern that the world was not making demonstrable progress towards the halving of global emissions the 2018 UN IPCC Special Report on 1.5 3 Meanwhile, UNICEF had recently reported that more than a billion children currently faced “deadly” threats from human-caused climate breakdown.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

Preparing for the storm: The role of UK business and government in improving UK resilience to climate change in the UK’ explores how leading UK businesses are already increasing community resilience through climate adaptation strategies and action. including Israel and Ecuador.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.