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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

government has broadly committed to working with other IMO member states to "raise the ambition" of the IMO's climate targets at a five-year review of the original 2018 IMO GHG strategy planned for 2023. waters by 2025 as it works to make domestic shipping net-zero by mid-century. was a relatively small player at the IMO.

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ESG Explainer: China’s Climate Challenge

Chris Hall

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. Independent analysts Climate Action Tracker estimate China’s emissions to have been 13.8 GtCO2e in 2020 and set to reach 13.2-14.5

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Pace of Policy Response to Quicken

Chris Hall

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 synthesis report noted that, while there are “tried and tested” policy measures that can achieve deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and build climate resilience, they will only have an impact if “scaled and applied globally”.

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

negotiations, remains hopeful that enough countries will create momentum for others to strengthen their reduction targets by 2025. Climate Action Tracker. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been leading the U.S. The world is not on track to meet the Paris goal. The cost of failure is astronomical.

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