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Going for the E-S-Gold: Home of the Paris Agreement Hosts the Olympics

3BL Media

While there have been some setbacks, particularly regarding pollution in the Seine River and a reversal on using air conditioners in the Olympic Village, the Paris Olympics have won overall high marks for being environmentally friendly.

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One year on: Impacts of a landmark legal opinion on climate change

Eco-Business

It says states have a legal responsibility to control them that goes beyond the Paris Agreement. Itlos became the first court in the world to produce such a document on climate change. “We Climate 14. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Energy 8. So far, I haven’t seen anything like that happening,” she admits.

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

GreenBiz

Climate scientists have unambiguously told us how to avoid the grimmest consequences of climate change: achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. And the Paris Agreement has given us a roadmap to get there through ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions. It supports electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption.

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The war of words over climate change

Corporate Knights

Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder, Covering Climate Now Too often, climate change coverage is locked in scientific abstractions, such as 1.5 Most people dont know about the Paris Agreement, let alone the significance of 1.5C. Right now, he says, that message needs to revolve around manufacturing jobs.