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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

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This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. Conference of the Parties (COP).

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Decade of delivery: How can businesses help keep 1.5C alive at COP26?

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The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. It is hard to fault the UN for naming the 2020s the 'decade of action'. threshold set out in the Paris Agreement. in the current decade? pathway by 2030.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

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As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.

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End of new coal power 'within sight' worldwide, report claims

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Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

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And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

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The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C is closing fast.