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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. This research builds on over a decade of science tracing heat-trapping emissions and impacts on a global scale to particular fossil fuel operations.”

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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And a majority of those actors have only expanded production in the intervening years. million barrels of oil.

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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the public about the consequences of burning fossil fuels. The long delays might have strengthened the legal arguments against fossil fuel companies. It’s really what the industry fears the most,” Johl said.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Business Green

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. A declining cap on fossil fuel consumption has a much larger set of unknowns regarding technology, resources, and other shifts that could affect the cost of compliance.

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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Whether these write-downs were accelerated significantly by Covid-19 or simply part of a longer ongoing trend, they clearly demonstrated that the risks posed by climate change and the net zero transition are now firmly on the radar of some of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree We need immediate action on energy.