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Swedish EV maker declares intent to develop “a truly climate neutral car by 2030”

Envirotec Magazine

Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change. Offsetting is a cop-out,” said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. “By The firm appears to align with those who have warned that offsetting is not sustainable in the long run.

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Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog’s analysis shows that business attendees at this year’s biodiversity COP reached record levels, more than doubling compared to the previous summit two years ago, to reach a total of 1,261 delegates. What you see here are two COPs,” he said. The UN said it was important to bring private interests to the negotiating table.

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MPs call for UK ban on trade and financing of deforestation-linked goods

Business Green

This government can really show leadership on these issues ahead of COP26 and the biodiversity COP next year: I hope it steps up to the challenge," he said. But many food companies and supermarkets have said that the UK's law to halt deforestation doesn't go far enough in focusing on illegal logging, not all deforestation.

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Everything You Need to Know About Saudi Aramco

DeSmogBlog

trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Once known as the Arabian American Oil Company due to its original American owners, it is now owned by Saudi Arabia and is key to the authoritarian Gulf state’s seemingly never-ending prosperity.

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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out. But one way to help break the current political and policy log jam is to keep reiterating that this transition can be done, and is being done. If it were easy to generate such will, it would have been done already.

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'Glasgow & London': COP26 venue tensions rumble on, as government preps forest protection alliance

Business Green

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying.

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ChargerHelp guarantees no-excuses EV charging uptime for a fixed fee

Charged

Often when drivers phoned in, they would describe behavior of a station that I couldnt see in our log data. Charged : Thats a good point, and maybe when people say, Its because theres all these different companies involved, thats just a cop-out, because theyre not really identifying where the problem lies.