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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. However, only 2% of those wastes are currently being effectively managed. ” says David Newman, President of WBA.

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Three New Business Models to Achieve Carbon-Reduction Goals

3BL Media

This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can spur the clean energy transition. Most JCM projects involve renewable energy and energy efficiency, but there are also some waste-to-energy and transport projects. Model 3—Utility-Green Hydrogen Partnerships.

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Investment Firm Ramps up Clients' Sustainability Efforts

3BL Media

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Stockholm +50: Five Things You Need to Know

3BL Media

There was a lot of media attention around COP26 last year where world leaders gathered to continue the work to uphold the actions promised by the Paris Agreement, 2015. Climate change, waste and the loss of nature and biodiversity threaten the livelihoods and lives of billions of people. Why is Stockholm +50 important?

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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 This lack of progress leaves the world hurtling towards a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goal of well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C.

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Preparing for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Paris agreement. One solution might be carbon pricing, and the imposition of such a measure was Bordini-Staden’s “biggest hope” for COP26.

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Seven years after the Paris Climate Agreement: How action-focused are NDCs to transform food and land use systems?

Sustainable Development Network

Overall, the findings of our analysis are sobering: seven years after the Paris Agreement, countries still do not sufficiently and consistently include emissions from, and actions for, their food and land sectors.