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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. waters by 2025 as it works to make domestic shipping net-zero by mid-century.

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

That difference brought the two of us together, as a climate scientist and an investor, to discuss how industrial zones around the world could, within a few years, tell a drastically different story about our climate. We joined together, one climate scientist and one investor, to share our sense of despair and hope.

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How climate risk disclosure became a battleground for the clean economy

Corporate Knights

Opponents see it as red tape and a constraint on competitiveness, while many climate campaigners say its the bare minimum. In its 2025 global risk report, the World Economic Forum warned that extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are all expected to worsen in the next 10 years. What are the risks?

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Take Five:  As Simple as Possible, but Not Simpler

Chris Hall

While opposing camps beefed up their arguments for a re-match, the 2024 presidential election focused attention on Project 2025, a handbook for Trumps second term, which sought to prohibit investing in ERISA plans on the basis of any factors that are unrelated to investor risks and returns (sic).

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Zen and the art of saving the planet in the Trump era

Corporate Knights

The largest companies in the United States understand that this is going to be yet another four-year hiatus in efforts to decarbonize the global economy or the U.S. But as painful as it is for us to hear, for instance, a growing number of climate scientists warn that the Paris Agreements target of limiting global warming to 1.5C