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Our Sustainable Development Report Card Has Arrived. Did We Pass? 

Sustainable Development Network

That future is framed within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed upon by all member nations of the United Nations in 2015. Major efforts are also needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (SDGs 12–15) in the US and abroad.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. According to new findings from Climate Action Tracker , India and China are actually years ahead of their climate commitments.

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

As such, attention is likely to quickly turn to alternative avenues for accelerating the development and adoption of the lower-carbon shipping technologies and practices that remain in the pipeline.

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

Climate Action Tracker described the amended goal a “significant step forward from the previous 26% reduction target” but said a 60% reduction was needed to put Japan on a 1.5°C Obviously, the landscape of nature will be altered, and they want to protect their natural biodiversity.”.

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Leading by Example

Chris Hall

These coexist with some of the least developed nations in the world that subsist on an annual GDP per capita as low as US$3,000 (Sudan, Mauritania and Yemen). According to independent scientific project Climate Action Tracker, this announcement does not provide any further details on the UAE’s strategy towards reaching net zero.

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C a further 19-23 billion tonnes of annual emissions must be cut by 2030, Climate Action Tracker calculates.[1]. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. However, new pledges still leave the world on course for 2.4°C, C, and to meet 1.5°C