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Three International Climate Priorities for UNGA and NYC Climate Week

Union of Concerned Scientists

That means we’ll need to quickly add additional clean energy policies and policies to phase out fossil fuels just to meet our 2030 goals. That goal was finally met in 2022, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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Canada joins historic commitment to end international fossil fuel finance by end of 2022

Enviromental Defense

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance. This was 2.5

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

–Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022. –Richard Diaz, Master of Public Policy candidate, 2022. [I]t –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022. –Alexander Morato, JD 2022. Thus far, climate policy and progress has really gone after the “low-hanging fruit.”

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Canada delivers on climate promise, takes significant step towards ending public fossil finance 

Enviromental Defense

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Investment in renewables reached record highs in 2022

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen The world invested a record-high amount in renewables in 2022, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. trillion in 2022 – this is up a whopping 19% compared to 2021 levels. trillion in 2022, another record-high.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization predict a 50:50 chance at least one year between 2022 and 2026 will exceed 1.5°C Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5°C

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” Available at SSRN 4198146 (2022). Ryan-Collins.