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COP25: The Path of Hope or the Path of Surrender

Green Market Oracle

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Global average levels of carbon dioxide reached 407.8

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. But first of all, does it pass the Thunberg test?

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UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision?

Business Green

It is in no way limited to political opponents and environmental activists whose jobs inherently require a degree of performative hostility towards government ministers. There are plenty more, a fair few of which are not fit to print. This time there is none of that. There is just cold fury, cut with a sadness deeper than any mine.

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