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Will World Leaders Step Up to Deliver at the UN Climate Ambition Summit?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. On September 20, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders.

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Canada joins historic commitment to end international fossil fuel finance by end of 2022

Enviromental Defense

If honored, this commitment will likely unseat Canada as the worst-ranking in the G20 for international public financing to the fossil fuel sector. . After a wave of commitments to end international coal finance this year, this is the first international political commitment that also addresses public finance for oil and gas.

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Banking Against Science: Financial Institutions Continue to Fund Climate Destruction

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climate change said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. With COP 27 now concluded, fossil fuel investment remains the elephant in the room.

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

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A Year After the Deadly Pakistan Floods Began, Hard Lessons About Climate Loss and Damage

Union of Concerned Scientists

percent of cumulative global carbon dioxide emissions and yet is bearing this terrible toll from climate change caused primarily by emissions from richer nations and fossil fuel companies. Pakistan is responsible for just 0.3 Climate-caused disasters have a disproportionately harsh impact on the poorest people. percent in 2021.

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The Climate Overshoot Commission Releases its Report

Legal Planet

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. Fossil interests will keep fighting, even it’s to stretch their demise out longer rather than to live forever. This boiled down to two jobs.

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RePlanet Nederland letter to the EU Commission about the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

We consider it crucial for Europeans and indeed the world that the Taxonomy is amended to efficiently and effectively encourage the role civilian nuclear energy technology can and must play for sustainable development. Our review is intended to help you argue your case.