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Canada is falling behind in global race to attract sustainable investments: Guilbeault

Corporate Knights

Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. German-based consortium Climate Action Tracker rates Canada’s climate-finance policies as “highly insufficient” – essentially a D grade.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

IMO member states are meeting this week for critical talks to discuss how the carbon-intensive shipping industry can be regulated to meet its 2030 climate target of reducing its carbon emissions intensity by 40 percent compared to 2008 levels.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from Climate Action Tracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.

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Our Sustainable Development Report Card Has Arrived. Did We Pass? 

Sustainable Development Network

From jobs to climate change to reducing health disparities, our needs are many and investments to meet those needs will require mobilizing significant resources. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad. They are humanity’s goals for 2030.

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Leading by Example

Chris Hall

According to independent scientific project Climate Action Tracker, this announcement does not provide any further details on the UAE’s strategy towards reaching net zero. It aims to elevate the proportion of clean energy sources, encompassing nuclear energy, to constitute 30% of the energy mix by 2030.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

Circular economy solutions can have a huge impact on climate change because 70% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to production and use of products – from the buildings we live in and the transport we use, to the food we eat and the clothes we wear. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Climate policy advocacy is incredibly powerful, but businesses must do more

We Mean Business Coalition

C according to Climate Action Tracker. C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, governments need to raise NDC ambition further, set underpinning regulations and make the necessary investments. To keep the world on track for 1.5°C trillion in annual revenue, and employing 10 million people. .