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G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

A Greener Life

The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes.

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Making Waves for the Ocean at COP26

Ocean Conservancy

Climate change is here and is bringing with it impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and dwindling sea ice. The dialogue will provide opportunities to share lessons learned and challenges faced, as well as include ocean solutions in country commitments under the Paris Agreement. Time is running out.

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Opinion: At COP28, climate finance takes centre stage

A Greener Life

One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. But this number pales in comparison to what the latest research tells us is needed.

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Film review: An inconvenient sequel

Edouard Stenger

Whether in the US or around the world, rising sea levels, extreme weather events such as tornadoes, droughts and so on are increasingly unpredictable and destructive. Found on wikipedia, this is a 2009 figure so to-date numbers would be much much higher…). It is focusing on the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement.

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Opinion: We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

A Greener Life

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Under the Paris Agreement , nations agreed to set a new climate finance target by 2025 – a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). billion of the USD 115.9

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment.

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What is COP26 and why does it matter? The complete guide

A Greener Life

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?