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The Climate Overshoot Commission Releases its Report

Legal Planet

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. Fossil interests will keep fighting, even it’s to stretch their demise out longer rather than to live forever. This boiled down to two jobs.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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European Green Deal - What is the Just Transition Mechanism?

Energy and Climate Law

In a nutshell, the European Commission acknowledges that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy will have economic and social impacts, especially on regions that rely on fossil fuels extraction and treatment (e.g. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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What is Our Ocean’s Role in the Transition to Clean Energy?

Ocean Conservancy

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The key will be ramping up our clean energy solutions and simultaneously and aggressively moving away from polluting fossil fuels.

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RePlanet Nederland letter to the EU Commission about the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

We consider it crucial for Europeans and indeed the world that the Taxonomy is amended to efficiently and effectively encourage the role civilian nuclear energy technology can and must play for sustainable development. Our review is intended to help you argue your case.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.” The problem is that it is partly a question of national will and national political economy changes and partly a question of the global architecture that actively prevents the realization of some of these goals.

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How can we peak emissions and fast forward towards Net Zero ?

Edouard Stenger

This is some political, social and economic conundrum, and it has to be solved fast. In parallel, how can we stop subsidizing fossil fuels to the tune of 7,000 billion USD a year ? Systemic changes are paramount if we are to collectively survive the 21st century and prevent a Mad Max future.