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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. For a long time in America, society put the climate change burden of proof on those who have raised concerns about it. Why, then, has it seemed like climate scientists and other activists have continually been asked for more proof?

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“Huge Disconnect” Between Financiers and Scientists on Climate Risk  

Chris Hall

While climate scientists and some leading economists, such as Nicholas Stern and Joseph Stiglitz, have challenged the inadequate climate risk models used in economic reports, the majority of economists have not aligned their reports with climate science, it added.

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Beware the Green Swan

Chris Hall

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Global emissions from energy are flat. Now what ?

Edouard Stenger

According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1

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Statement on behalf of We Mean Business Coalition ahead of COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

Amidst the escalating impacts and threats of climate change, heads of state, negotiators, climate scientists, activists and business leaders prepare to meet for COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The consequences of inaction are already being felt globally, with the world’s vulnerable most severely impacted. .

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

With more than one quarter of the global economy committed to achieving net-zero emissions over the coming decades, it follows that the shipping sector will be under increased pressure from governments and private players to clean up its act.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

That difference brought the two of us together, as a climate scientist and an investor, to discuss how industrial zones around the world could, within a few years, tell a drastically different story about our climate. We joined together, one climate scientist and one investor, to share our sense of despair and hope.