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Pulling Hanoi from the pollution precipice

Eco-Business

Hanoi’s extreme air pollution is a roadblock to healthy living and to Vietnam’s ambitious agenda of attaining living standards consonant with high-income status by 2045, and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Chinese cities have demonstrated that GHG reduction strategies tackle both particulate and carbon emissions.

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. After a heated debate, they agreed that the goal should be to pursue net zero by midcentury. Indeed, they’ll be front and center at our upcoming Net Zero event.

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Fossil fuel expansion will be the litmus test for banks’ net-zero promises

Corporate Knights

Many of the world’s biggest banks face the enormous challenge of realigning their entire loans and investment operations in the coming years to put themselves on a credible path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “We C above pre-industrial levels – and tying compensation to progress on meeting the climate goals.

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SDSN Kenya Co-hosts Carbon Markets Clinic and Debate

Sustainable Development Network

On 25 March 2024, SDSN Kenya joined WRI Africa and other Kenyan partner organizations in co-hosting an interactive workshop and debate format entitled: ‘Carbon Markets: Which Way for Kenya? A Carbon Markets Clinic and Debate’.

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Fossil Fuels vs Renewables in the Race to Net Zero

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The race is on, proclaims the United Nations, to create a Net Zero economy (same amount of greenhouse gas /GHG emissions removed from the atmosphere as produced). Public conversations about Net Zero are usually about “fossil fuels vs. renewables” and the impact of each category on climate change.

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Yum China Launches Low-Carbon Environmental Protection Campaign to Drive Consumers to Embrace Low-Carbon Life

3BL Media

In December, KFC China launched an interactive section of "Natural 'Carbon Detection' and Going to Zero" on its super APP, infiltrating the concept of environmental protection and low carbon into consumers' daily ordering and dining behavior, and advocating consumers to participate in energy conservation and carbon reduction.

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American Airlines Makes Equity Investment in Universal Hydrogen

3BL Media

Because these segments represent two-thirds of aviation emissions — and with green hydrogen being a true zero-carbon fuel — these advances put aviation on a path to meet Paris Agreement emissions targets.

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