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The biggest carbon losers

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This year, Corporate Knights set out to identify global companies that have decarbonized faster than their peers while simultaneously increasing revenue. Yet the pace and scale of their reductions is in the realm of what every company and country must do by 2030 to keep the faith of the Paris Agreement. Divestments (47%).

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

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The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

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Delaying those actions “would lock in high-emissions infrastructure, raise risks of stranded assets and cost escalation, reduce feasibility, and increase losses and damages.” But there’s still time to take action if countries pick the right decarbonization options and scale up fast. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C