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

Corporate Knights

A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says.

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The Climate Blockers: BASF quietly lobbies against strong climate policy while talking a big game

Corporate Knights

The shrivelled Rhine of 2018 became a harbinger of the devastating impact that climate change will have on the backbone of the German economy. Historically, some 40% of the raw materials entering the site do so by freight ships. The river’s water was too warm to effectively cool BASF’s reactors. On the face of it, it is.

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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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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

trillion in real estate assets under management now committed to halving emissions by 2030, along with 20% of architects and engineers. . And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities.

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