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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.

Politics 101
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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. Energy poverty already has powerful implications today from a public health or productivity point of view, for example, as it may harm one’s ability to live a decent life or perform a job.

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Global Briefing: In-person COP15 biodiversity talks braced for delay to 2022

Business Green

The country's minister for maritime and investment affairs Luhut Pandjaitan told a seminar this week that he was optimistic the country could achieve net zero within 40 years, according Reuters. "I The focus should be on increasing health benefits, food and water security, and adapting infrastructure to anticipated climate impacts, she said.