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Climate in Motion

Chris Hall

Canadian Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull outlines the importance of building consensus to stimulate debate on environmental issues and accelerate climate-related policy. Canada has made slow progress on tackling climate change.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Australia – along with the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia region ­– is in one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change, says Alvin Chandra, Programme Management Officer – Climate Change with UN Environment Programme. What are Australia’s stated net zero goals?

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SDSN Reflects on an Impactful 2021!

Sustainable Development Network

The brief was referenced in the report by the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Scientific Group “ Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation and Summit Actions ”. Along with the report, they also provided a policy brief.

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Pace of Policy Response to Quicken

Chris Hall

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 synthesis report noted that, while there are “tried and tested” policy measures that can achieve deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and build climate resilience, they will only have an impact if “scaled and applied globally”. An overshoot of 1.5°C

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, released in August 2021, warns in its strongest terms yet that human activities have unequivocally warmed the planet, and that climate change is now widespread, rapid, and intensifying. Secretary-General António Guterres called the report a “code red for humanity.”.

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