GreenBiz
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. 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.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Other binding targets include increasing the share of days with good air quality in cities up to 87.5% (from 87% in 2020) and increasing forest coverage to 24.1%. At the Leaders Climate Summit in April 2021, President Xi Jinping announced that China would control coal generation until 2025 when it will start to gradually phase it out.
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Sustainable Development Network
JUNE 29, 2021
At the global level, the average SDG Index Score for 2020 decreased from the previous year for the first time: a decline driven to a large extent by increased poverty rates and unemployment following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regarding climate change, the US is marked “critically insufficient” for 1.5°C
Chris Hall
MARCH 23, 2022
Despite suffering severe impacts from climate change, Australia remains married to coal, but alternative energy opportunities are emerging. During the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires, more than 24 million hectares of land was burnt and 33 people died, followed by a further 450 fatalities from illnesses linked to smoke inhalation.
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Countries are required under the Paris Agreement to update their national climate action plans every five years, including at COP26. The Paris Agreement requires countries to report their NDCs, but it allows them leeway in determining how they reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Climate Action Tracker.
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