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Is the LNG industry gaslighting the path to net-zero?

Corporate Knights

Still, producers want the federal government to include exported LNG as part of its climate change strategy, including policies for preferential financing. By the 2030s, the costly new LNG export terminals will either become stranded assets or lock in emission growth that takes us in the wrong direction on climate change.

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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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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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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

times higher than the UK's own greenhouse gas emissions (excluding aviation and shipping). Change is already underway within the fossil fuel industry, as developments in the Netherlands, United States and Australia indicate. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8

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The High Seas Treaty: How will it Impact Investors?

Chris Hall

Therefore, ensuring it stays healthy and able to continue providing those services is crucial to the fight against climate change. Those services are not generated by the water alone, it is the living organisms in the sea that are producing the oxygen and sequestering the carbon.

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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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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). What progress has the IMO made?