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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping. The global shipping industry's decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. Cecilia Keating. Tue, 10/20/2020 - 00:15. Faïg Abbasov, head of shipping at campaign group Transport & Environment, told BusinessGreen the proposal was "essentially an empty shell."

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The Olympics of Geothermal – WGC 2023 experience of African participants

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This year’s World Geothermal Congress held in Beijing, China was attended by geothermal professionals and researchers from 54 countries and regions from around the world. As such, a significant contingent of participants in the WGC 2023 came from Africa. It is heat that never sleeps as long as the earth exists.

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Atmospheric Rivers, Floods, And Drought: The Paradox Of California’s Wetter And Drier Climate Future

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Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Following years of severe drought across the western United States, atmospheric rivers began sweeping into the state last December, bringing intense rain and snowfall. Running ARkStorm 2.0,

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UK has passed on the COP baton, but it still has a responsibility to lead on climate

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There was a historic breakthrough in agreeing on a finance facility for loss and damage, but we failed to agree urgent action to help peak emissions in the middle of this decade and secure finance for an unprecedented ramp-up in renewable energy. So, where do we go from here? The UK must be agile in its post-Brexit international age.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping Cecilia Keating Tue, 10/20/2020 – 00:15 The global shipping industry’s decarbonization efforts once again face stormy seas. ” “To achieve 1.5 degrees [of warming] we need to decarbonize by the mid-2030s,” he explained.

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COP27: 10 things businesses have learnt from the Sharm El Sheikh Summit

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It was, as ever a highly eventful fortnight, characterised by shifting politics, surging levels of green investment, and escalating fears the climate impacts could be approaching catastrophic 'tipping points'. A major new fund really could be up and running in a little over a year. However, uncertainties remain.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Fleets don’t want to go electric at scale until they’ve done years-long pilots, but the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation will artificially constrict that timeframe. Therefore, electrifying them is critical to reducing emissions. Lots of fleets will be placing orders for heavy-duty EVs over the next few years.