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

Enviromental Defense

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 billion in fossil financing towards accelerating the urgent implementation of climate goals.

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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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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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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 1.5Ā°C Based on the lifetime of currently operating fossil fuel power plants and planned plants, it is highly likely global warming will exceed 1.5Ā°C

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Climate Litigation in Latin America and the Caribbean:Ā  launching a regional Platform for Climate Litigation

Law Columbia

Corruption is a widespread and deeply rooted phenomenon, especially in multimillion-dollar industries such as fossil fuels and extractivism. Thereā€™s a risk that companies or governments might co-opt academics, and proving and battling corruption is extremely difficult and dangerous. And these are only some examples.

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Jayati Ghosh ā€“ Itā€™s not just analysis, itā€™s a call for action

Frontiers

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. Similarly, we need to move away from fossil fuels and encourage investment in green options, even if that means regulation.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planetĀ 

Frontiers

It must be the meeting when we start really showing credible pathways to phase out fossil fuels.ā€ Massamba Thioye , executive of the UNFCCC, captured these key areas when he said: ā€œWe will not be able to address the challenge of climate and sustainability if we do not do something with our inner development goal.

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