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TED Talk: 3 Rules for a Zero Carbon World

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

Here is one of our favorites: Stop feeling overwhelmed by the global effort to reduce CO2 emissions, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for the UN’s climate change conference COP26. The UN’s COP26 has developed toolkits for every sector of the global economy and published a roadmap of shared pathways.

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UN climate conference more productive than you think

Sense and Sustainability

Between the news media and the protests, it would have been easy to get the impression that this year’s United Nations climate summit, known as COP26, was all talk and no action. Highlights from the climate summit There was plenty of good news worth highlighting: Global methane pledge: The U.S. This is a welcome step.

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FABLE Consortium co-leads "Transforming food systems" chapter of the 2022 Emissions Gap Report

Sustainable Development Network

C by the end of this century Updated pledges since COP26 in Glasgow take less than one per cent off projected 2030 greenhouse gas emissions; 45 per cent is needed for limiting global warming to 1.5°C Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster.” C in place.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C Anything less is incompatible with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC.”

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