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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. It is also working to introduce net-zero emissions ships in U.K.

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. . Every fraction of a degree of global heating matters. Deforestation must be removed from supply chains by 2025. In a global economy no-one will be unaffected when climate-related disasters hit.

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Three decisions governments must make to solve the nature and climate emergencies

We Mean Business Coalition

Keeping global warming to below 1.5C This will set them on course to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Without nature acting as a carbon sink, global temperatures would already have risen more than 1.5C In addition, nature’s contribution to the global economy could be worth $125 trillion annually.

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Creativity and Collaboration Vital to Finance Nature

Chris Hall

Convened at COP26, we have already worked to set industry-wide standards for engagements, and are using these, together with the fast-growing set of tools, data and roadmaps to use our best efforts to eliminate the deforestation in our portfolios by 2025.

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Business welcomes The Glasgow Climate Pact: We Mean Business Coalition statement

We Mean Business Coalition

This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Ahead of COP26, more than 750 businesses, employing 10 million people globally and with US$2.7

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

The letter also seeks a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a 50 percent target for electric vehicle sales by 2030, and a renewed commitment to international climate finance. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. billion and Canada added $30 billion in new funding for the climate.