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COP26: UK preps aviation climate coalition for global take-off

Business Green

The declaration would also commit countries to lobby for a strengthening of CORSIA, the UN aviation agency's flagship scheme for addressing aviation emissions through a new international carbon offset scheme. per cent of global carbon emissions.

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The Glasgow Climate Pact: What does it mean for Canada’s climate policy?

Clean Energy Canada

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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One in Three Directors at Australia’s Major Banks Have Ties to Oil, Gas, and Mining

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At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry.

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Global Briefing: Arrival arrives in US with new headquarters

Business Green

Brazil announces 'indicative' goal to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060. Brazil this week announced a new 'indicative' goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, ahead of this week's global Climate Ambition Summit. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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Michael Gove’s Climate Views Put Him on Collision Course With New Spectator Bosses

DeSmogBlog

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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'China always honours commitments': President Xi enhances 2030 green goals, as world leaders ramp up climate pledges

Business Green

President Xi, one of around 75 world leaders scheduled to speak at the virtual UN summit, reiterated his landmark pledge from September to peak China's carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. I welcome President Xi's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.