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The Year in Water, 2021

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2021. Water Crises Take Center Stage By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 9, 2021. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. Too little. Too polluted. For years these compact phrases, mantra-like in their repetition, have come to define the world’s water problems.

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STATEMENT: Big Oil’s testimony on emissions reduction misses the big picture 

Enviromental Defense

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Policy News: September 27, 2021

ESA

EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. The first briefing is titled Creating Policies, Coalitions, and Actions for Global Sustainable Development and will take place Oct. 2021 (Oct. USFWS – Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council Meetings for 2021 (Sept.

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Net Zero/Not Zero

Real Climate

Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance. Wherever the authors had made a reference to net-zero CO2 emissions, the Saudis (and sometimes China) tried to amend it to say net-zero greenhouse gases instead. 1/ — doreen stabinsky (@doreenstabinsky) November 11, 2021. Article 4, section 1.

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Investors Need to Know the Full Scope of Corporate Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chevron’s board of directors said that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.” For many companies and sectors, a greenhouse gas inventory that omits Scope 3 would be materially misleading to investors,” the letter states.

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

10 from IPCC (2021). 2 from IPCC (2021). in Canadell et al (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). in the underlying chapter; Canadell et al (2021)). in Canadell et al (2021). Source: Figure SPM.10

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‘La Acción de Cumplimiento’ as a Legal Mechanism to Implement Colombian Climate Change Laws

Law Columbia

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). Law 2169 of 2021 on carbon neutrality and climate resilience. Similarly, Law 2169 of 2021 established clear minimum goals and measures to reach carbon neutrality and climate resilience. of the national total. Law 1931 of 2018 on climate change action.