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Global Briefing: Japan hints at coal export policy crackdown

Business Green

Japan to launch review of coal export policy. Japan looks set to beef up a key plank of its climate policy in the face of mounting calls from allies for the country to strengthen its decarbonisation plans ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this year. Plus all the top green business news from around the world.

Policy 53
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Event - Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Green Market Oracle

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The conference will appeal to scholars, social activists, business people, and policy makers.

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Global Briefing: UN summit sees $400bn pledged towards clean energy

Business Green

Released on Wednesday, the stricter guidelines - the UN body's first major air pollution policy update since 2005 - recommend new limits to protect health by reducing levels of six key pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. Study: Renewable energy could deliver 25 million jobs in Africa and Asia.

Energy 48
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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. In June of 1988 James E.