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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

The landmark Paris Agreement was forged in the corridors of COP21 back in 2015. Article 4 of its foundational document, the UNFCCC, affirms the need to give full consideration to the impact that mitigation measures will have on countries whose economies are highly dependent on income generated from. In 2008, Article 5.3

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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. This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under a Creative Commons licence. Like this content?

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NCQG Must Triple Climate Finance to EMDEs

Chris Hall

trillion a year by 2030 to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, with EMDEs accounting for US$2.3-US2.5 On the opening day of COP29, parties approved Article 6.4 Ahead of COP29, the taskforce announced it will publicly launch levy proposals for sectors including aviation and shipping in early 2025. trillion in China.

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Bonn climate talks expose divisions over climate finance and tariffs

Eco-Business

Dialogue Earth attended this year’s conference, which marked the first gathering of all the UNFCCC parties since the US announced its second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Bolivia’s first proposal concerned the implementation of Article 9.1 Instead, at Bonn, progress was made across multiple tracks in parallel.

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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. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell." "To Cecilia Keating. To achieve 1.5

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea. Expanding carbon capture to long-distance marine shipping could help accelerate its use, while addressing a difficult to abate sector of the transport industry.". Expanding carbon capture to long-distance marine shipping could help accelerate its use.

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Air shipping, a growing sector, is the most carbon-intensive way to ship a product. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Enter air cargo.

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