Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

In an eventful week, the words of climate scientists reverberated around the world. Released Monday , the Synthesis Report that concluded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment cycle confirmed much we already knew.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The world is not currently on track to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Targeted action by sector and region This year’s COP28 in Dubai sees the culmination of the first-ever UNFCCC Global Stocktake, which assesses progress made since the Paris Agreement. This political momentum is welcome.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

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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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 4, 2024

This is not surprising and shows that, for now, despite governments’ agreement at COP28 on the need to transition away from fossil fuels this decade, collective agreement on the who, when and how for the transition remains elusive – with some CERAWeek attendees cautioning against a speedy transition and touting fossil gas as a transition fuel.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A glaring improvement on the 2015 Paris Agreement, which didn’t mention fossil fuels, the treaty resolution proposes a global plan to halt the expansion of hydrocarbon production and then phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists.

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 13, 2022

But with the world still off-track to achieve the Paris Agreement, should governments intervene? For Giannini, pressures from investors, customers, staff, business peers and climate scientists should already be pushing most businesses to act, with this sense of urgency now reaching further than a select group of firms.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The IMO’s marine environment protection committee approved a proposal that will allow the shipping sector’s 1 billion tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions to keep rising for the rest of this decade — the very decade in which the world’s climate scientists say we must halve global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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