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Study Confirms Significance of Reducing Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Protect the Future of the Olympic Winter Games

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dangerous global warming threshold set out in the agreement. The researchers assessed the future climate reliability of former Olympic Winter Games hosts, as well as potential new host regions that have not been considered in previous academic studies around the future of Olympic hosting.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

It says states have a legal responsibility to control them that goes beyond the Paris Agreement. Similar requests for advisory opinions are currently ongoing at the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where different states, NGOs, and academics are offering their views.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. But that idea has been dismissed by anyone associated with the COP process who’s heard it. .

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SAP at COP28: Navigating Climate Change Together

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COP28 aims to be more than just another meeting; it seeks to serve as a significant moment where the international community reflects on and evaluates the progress made since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Above all, it represents a critical self-assessment, examining what actions are required to bridge the gap by 2030.

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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts

GreenBiz

Take the example of the Climate Just tool, which combines open data from government and academic sources to visually display how heatwaves, flooding and other extreme climate events will affect disadvantaged and impoverished communities.

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SDSN Launches a New National Network in Portugal

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN’s Vice-President María Cortés-Puch and SDSN’s President, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, participated in the event with opening and closing remarks respectively. SDSN Portugal has been created at a very decisive time.

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Cascale’s New CEO Spotlights the Urgency for the Consumer Goods Industry To Go Further To Tackle the Climate Crisis

3BL Media

Cascale has already set a 45 percent reduction target for the textile, apparel, and footwear industry by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement. Themed “A New Era of Unified Impact,” the event unites over 600 attendees from around the world, who will hear from more than 80 global industry experts.