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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Cecilia Keating. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell."

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Gas Investment Comes at a Cost

Chris Hall

So the fact that it needed some form of recognition at a global climate event seems curious. A high-emission fuel Gas is portrayed as a cleaner fossil fuel because, when combusted, it emits half as much carbon than coal or oil. C global warming limit by 2050. The IEA’s 2023 outlook was no better.

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The year of the burning platform

We Mean Business Coalition

This article first appeared in Business Green. Panellists in the famous alpine town could be heard using it in relation to difficult decisions stemming from all manner of alarming global crises through military conflict, social unrest, distrust in government, consequences of unregulated AI and, of course, climate change.

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Overcoming the roadblocks for Australia's renewable energy drive

Sustainability Matters

More than 110 countries are striving to achieve net zero emissions in alignment with The Paris Agreement, yet Australia currently lacks a well-defined strategy for renewable energy. Currently brine mining involves evaporating the brine in large pools over a period of 1–2 years. This is an extremely inefficient process.

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'Mostly a win' for clean energy, Budget 2023 fails to end fossil fuel subsidies

Corporate Knights

An array of new tax credits for clean energy development and a pledge to secure Canada’s place in a global green economy are at the centre of this year’s federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, with an estimated $80 billion in multi-year funding for mostly clean energy technologies.

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Our Oil Predicament Explained: Heavy Oil and the Diesel Fuel it Provides Are Key

Gail Tverberg

Venezuela reports the highest oil reserves in the world thanks to its heavy oil in the Orinoco Belt, but it extracts a relatively small amount per year. An October 2022 article says that the country is waiting for foreign investment to expand production. This, too, adds costs. We should not be surprised by fibbing on the high side.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Where we navigate crowded city streets on smaller, nimbler electric vehicles and every truck runs on zero-emission fuel. CheckSammy raised $367,000 from investors in 2020, and two years later raised $20.3 Perhaps most intriguingly, the Future 50 could signal a reordering of business leadership in Canada. million to $9.1

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