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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. There are clear consequences for business , as well, from supply chain and shipping disruptions to higher costs, changing markets, and regulatory shifts. But progress has to start now.

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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. Those talks resulted in the first global agreement to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. Itlos became the first court in the world to produce such a document on climate change. “We Inequality 11. Climate 14.

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Take Five: The Deep Green Sea?

Chris Hall

This week, scientists observed that global warming is turning the world’s oceans green, underlining the urgent need for the shipping industry to set ambitious GHG emission targets. Attempts to impose a levy on GHG emissions from international shipping to fund climate action were delayed after two weeks of talks.

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Key Messages from the Zero Emissions Solutions Conference 

Sustainable Development Network

The five day online event brought together 74 global technical experts and world-leading scientists, engineers, and innovators from business, academia, and civil society to share knowledge and showcase solutions to maximize climate commitments in the wake of the Paris Agreement.

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Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

EJOLT

It is also used for secondary and university education and for doctoral theses and articles and academic books. The EJAtlas, which is the result of academic-activist collaboration, is popular with environmental justice organizations in many parts of the world. So, which actors could play a key role?