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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. ’s climate change board. China takes a big step.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has claimed Canadian LNG will replace ‘dirty coal in Asia.’

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Carbon neutral eggs

Business Green

There has, quite understandably, been an increasingly heavy focus on the role of human diets in climate change. Livestock is too often fed on diets heavy on soya, which has been linked to land-use change and deforestation in parts of South America and Asia.

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South Korea to push for carbon neutrality by 2050

Business Green

President Moon Jae-in announces climate ambition that sees world's 10th largest economy join growing momentum behind net zero. The plan to build a low carbon industrial economy will help to build "new markets and industries" and create jobs, he said.

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Can and Will China and the US Take Climate Change Seriously?

Climate 4.0

Carbon Neutrality, Sometime in the Future China’s government has pledged carbon neutrality by 2060. The US has pledged carbon neutrality by 2050. Its Congress has just passed legislation billed as the most significant in decades , even as it is littered with support of carbon-fuel power generation.

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China plans to go carbon-neutral by 2060

AGreenLiving

China, the world’s biggest source of carbon dioxide , is aiming for carbon-neutrality by 2060. Since world events and political tensions have stalled global climate negotiations, the general assembly had expected little progress on climate change until 2021. won’t address climate change.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.