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Five Reasons Your Company Needs A Climate Transition Action Plan

We Mean Business Coalition

Countries are starting to bend the curve of global greenhouse emissions downwards, according to the UN , and the latest International Energy Agency data suggests global emissions from energy may be starting to plateau. This puts the world at risk of missing the goal set out in the Paris Agreement of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C

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

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” 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.” Given the persistent technical problems still facing CCS, that may not be likely.