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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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Carrots First

Chris Hall

Anne Simpson, Global Head of Sustainability, and Ben Meng, Chairman of Asia Pacific, Franklin Templeton, consider how government incentives can accelerate the shift to green energy. 1] Looking ahead, India plans to launch its own national carbon market in 2026. Firstly, how high are carbon prices today?

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

Corporate Knights

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. It points not just to where Canadian businesses are making their mark in the climate emergency – but where additional attention and support are also needed.

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Take-off for the Net Zero Transition  

Chris Hall

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. In this summary article, ESG Investor covers some of the areas with the biggest implications for asset owners. After the sound , fury and compromises, what will investors remember COP28 for?

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

Will Kerry’s COP27 initiative drive EMDE energy transition and put voluntary carbon markets on the fast track to credibility? . Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. .

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

To have the world’s two largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters working together with the ambition of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC is welcome news. The report identifies how policy can be used to support acceleration in the race to resilience. . They are taking action and going all in for 1.5°C,

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.