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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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An insider’s look at the Glasgow climate summit – talks intensify, amid grandstanding and anger outside

Renewable Energy World

There has been a shift at this year’s summit, from making pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050 to a focus on actions to cut emissions by 2030. C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. C, inside discussions on transparency and reporting on climate progress are stalled.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. Companies accelerated the route to sustainable mobility.

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The ranting critics of sustainability may have a point

Business Green

Remember when the profession of sustainability was largely a backwater activity inside companies, seemingly unrelated to the business of productivity and profits? Sustainability - and its finance-oriented cousin, ESG - are now mainstream, which means they are more widely seen and understood - and misunderstood. Subscribe here.

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Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal

GreenBiz

For more than a decade, this has been the time of year — the run-up to Earth Day — when I’ve surveyed the public opinion polls, of which there have been many, to assess consumer and citizen trends on environmental issues, notably related to shopping. Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal. Joel Makower.

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

Business Green

The hope will be that in a year or two covid-scarred economies will be on the mend and there will be more capacity to deliver Loss and Damage funding at a meaningful scale. But the flaws in their argument has not stopped them once again blocking the adoption of a more ambitious agreement.

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2020 was the year that…

AGreenLiving

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we’ve published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. But it was much, much longer than that. Remember 2019?