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A Voluntary Distraction

Chris Hall

Kevin Conrad, Executive Director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, says compliance carbon markets offer more effective support to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Global Stocktake is a key process established under the Paris Agreement scheduled to take place at COP28 in Dubai.

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EU Lawmakers Raise the Price of Carbon Emissions for Airlines

ESG Today

While the revisions to the EU ETS system do not include long-haul flights, which remain subject to the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), the agreement requires the EU Commission to review CORSIA in 2026 to determine whether its rules will be sufficient to align the sector with the EU’s Paris Agreement goals.

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Qualcomm's Commitment to Net-Zero Global Operational Emissions by 2040

3BL Media

This includes our direct operational GHG emissions such as from manufacturing processes at our three fabs and our cogeneration plants, our purchased utilities, primarily electricity, and our upstream and downstream value chain, which includes direct and indirect supply chain, business travel, waste generated in operations, and more.

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JetBlue Announces Science-Based Emissions Reduction Target and Strategy To Achieve Net Zero by 2040

3BL Media

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. Refreshed Carbon Offsetting Strategy. SOURCE: JetBlue Airways.

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Three New Business Models to Achieve Carbon-Reduction Goals

3BL Media

This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. Most JCM projects involve renewable energy and energy efficiency, but there are also some waste-to-energy and transport projects. Four Ways Development Agencies Can Advance Carbon Markets.

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

Corporate Knights

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

In land, water, and food systems, the top options are to reduce the loss of natural ecosystems, followed by carbon farming and ecosystem restoration. The IPCC says reducing food loss and food waste has the least impact among a list of strategies. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C