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‘Extraordinary growth’ in clean energy is keeping the ‘narrowed’ pathway to 1.5 ?C open: IEA

Corporate Knights

trillion by the early 2030s in the latest net-zero roadmap published this morning by the International Energy Agency. C has narrowed in the past two years, but clean energy technologies are keeping it open,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, in a release summarizing the 227-page document. trillion in 2023 to $4.5

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Adapt to Survive: Why Oil Companies Must Plan for Net Zero and Avoid Stranded Assets

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

Corporate Knights

The policy won’t affect money that has already gone out the door or commitments that have already been signed, there is no published calculation of the future subsidies that will now be foregone, and the documents provide no cost figures for 129 non-tax measures that could be shifted as a result of this week's announcement.

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Energy Efficiency Must Move “Higher up the Agenda”

Chris Hall

Research by the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that a major push on energy efficiency could save the equivalent of China’s annual energy usage, as well as 33% of the total additional net zero emission reductions required by 2030. It is also a positive stimulator of growth.”

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Cost parity for sustainable shipping fuels achievable by 2035

Envirotec Magazine

iv In 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) set a target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Roger Holm, President of Wärtsilä Marine & Executive Vice President at Wärtsilä Corporation says: “Achieving net zero in shipping by 2050 will require all the tools in the toolbox, including sustainable fuels.

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. . They receive mixed signals from their stakeholders and regulators on the appropriate role carbon credits play in net zero strategies.” .

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

Corporate Knights

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 some meeting participants warned that those delays are baked into the process by some of the key assumptions in the IPCC’s modelling. Overshooting 1.5°C