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How Big Oil promotes climate change misinformation in Canadian schools

Corporate Knights

Oil and gas companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report. in 2020 called Climate Education Reform BC. Then came the threats.

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Mastercard: Planting Seeds of Change: How People and Partnerships Tackled Climate Change in 2024

3BL Media

But amid the chaos were signs of hope, courtesy of people who proved that our efforts do make a difference in the fight against climate change. Rising ocean temperatures spurred by climate change are making their job even harder. a brutal heat dome oppressed India and wildfires ravaged South America.

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Alberta's conservative party invites climate disinformation into policy debate

Corporate Knights

Drawing on longstanding pro-CO2 rhetoric in climate denialism, Policy Resolution #12 asks the government to scrap its decarbonization goals, remove the designation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and recognize the greenhouse gas as a “foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.” “I

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How to Re-establish the UK’s Lead on Climate Change

Chris Hall

Former chair of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben believes the country can get back on track to net zero and regain its status as a global leader. When Glasgow hosted COP26 in 2021, bringing together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 participants, the UK was seen as a world leader in the battle against climate change.

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EU to Develop Nature Credits Market to Fund More Sustainable Agriculture Practices

ESG Today

The European Commission announced the launch of its “Roadmap towards Nature Credits,” aimed at helping to develop a new market for nature credits, enabling farmers and foresters to fund activities to protect and preserve biodiversity and ecosystems through the facilitation of private capital flows from companies and investors.

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Turning the Tables for Sustainable Development in India

3BL Media

Tanjun aims to empower marginalised women from these areas by equipping them with the skills to develop sustainable bamboo sports equipment, encouraging not only environmentally friendly practices, but also lasting social change in the mountainous and forest-covered regions below the Himalayas.

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Meet the man most responsible for saving COP29 from irrelevancy

Corporate Knights

But that’s the mandate of Simon Stiell, the former environment minister of Grenada who is now the United Nations’ climate chief – the man most responsible for achieving the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5°C The same report,” Stiell noted, “says climate action will cost less than a sixth of that.”