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In Glasgow, Financiers Vow to Shift Investments from Fossil Fuels to Renewables

Yale E360

Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Follow the money. Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.

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The new Global Methane Pledge can buy time while the world drastically reduces fossil fuel use

Environmental News Bits

climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. by Jeff Nesbit, Yale University There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N.

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Unrelenting Heat Requires Accountability and Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. It didn’t have to be like this The fossil fuel industry and its enablers are most to blame for the rising temperatures and increasing frequency and severity of heatwaves.

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Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Kicks Off Annual Meeting in Heart of the Amazon Basin

Legal Planet

Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause more climate warming emissions than the global transportation sector , and deforestation rates have increased despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here. Background on the GCF Task Force.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is drawing bio-based diesel fuel out of other states and putting California and federal fuel policies into a vicious cycle that is contributing to ever more unsustainable and expensive fuel policies. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

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Viewpoint: A top-ten climate-positive wishlist for 2024

A Greener Life

Chinese emissions to peak in 2024 Offshore wind to stabilise with installations across the world starting to pickup Significant scientific breakthroughs in solar PV New nature, biodiversity and rewilding projects announced More land onshore and offshore given protection status Making progress on halting deforestation The production of fossil fuels (..)

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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48 Extraordinarily, the data also showed that the 1.5C

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