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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C at best.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.”

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

The ETA will create a new class of carbon offsets that either represent investments in EMDE renewable energy projects or converted reductions in emissions from the power sector (such as coal-fired electricity). How will the ETA work? . The deal committed US$8.5 How can the credibility and effectiveness of the ETA be measured?