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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments. Between 2010 and 2018, Chevron is analyzed to have dedicated only 0.2%

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

Instead, environmentalists were mainly concerned about the ozone layer, nuclear meltdown and chemical industrial pollution, the erosion of biodiversity and population explosion. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4 I had to wait 37 years of my life until the world finally agreed to a global climate deal with the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level. Modeling has shown that coal power should be phased out entirely by 2030 if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets to limit global warming to 1.5