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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C Belem, situated at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, is facing an influx of 70,000 delegates attending an upcoming United Nations climate summit, COP 30, in 2025.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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The Future of Climate Investing

3BL Media

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. Clients need to vote with their money.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

This along with an end to fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 is the timeline business needs to help get us on track. Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.” is also joining RE100 by committing to 100% renewable electricity by 2025. . Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and NRG Energy Inc.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

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. 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.