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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

The financial part of this Green Deal is the European Green Deal Investment Plan (EGDIP) , revealed on 14 January 2020. This programme should mobilise “at least €1 trillion of sustainable investments ” until 2030. Source: The European Green Deal Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism explained, EC, Brussels, 14 January 2020, p.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Moreover, as suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, renewable energy is much better than fossil fuels exploitation in terms of sustainable development (unlike someone in Moore’s movie suggested). Solar and wind.

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China’s would-be parents and their climate concerns

A Greener Life

At the end of 2020, we used an online questionnaire to survey 173 people in China who were concerned or alarmed about climate change. Some respondents also worried that climate change could create or worsen social and political crises. Out of 138 valid responses collected in 2020, 28.3% were positive, 22.5%

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Analysis: Green jobs take off in China

A Greener Life

The bump may be linked to China’s commitment, made in September 2020, to reach carbon neutrality before 2060. TikTok set up a Corporate Social Responsibility department around 2020, and employed staff in Europe and the US. of the total) published ESG reports in 2020. Many of these are emerging sectors, steadily creating jobs.

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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.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.5.22

PA Environment Daily

True Energy Independence Means Renewables [We’re Not Independent If Foreign Markets, Despots Set The Prices We Pay For Energy ] -- Financial Times: ExxonMobil Flags Highest Quarterly Profit Since The Boom Year Of 2008 When Russia Invaded Georgia [Anyone See A Pattern?