Too Big to Succeed?
Is a coalition of more than 500 financial firms fit to race against climate change? Willy Diddens looks at the form. In April 2021, the UN Special Envoy on Climate …
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Killer watts
Helen Thompson is a professor of international political economy who thinks that understanding energy can explain a lot (if not all as she is careful to say) that has happened …
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Beyond the pale?
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko talks to The Mint about the Brussels’ beyond-growth moment, the politics it sidestepped, and why “decolonise the climate” says what it means. When Lebohang Liepollo Pheko walked …
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Greenwashing concerns: Is Brazil paper company sustainable?
Members of the Curvelandia community in Brazil’s north-eastern Maranhao state used branches and palm fronds at the beginning of this year to create a barricade across the red dirt road that runs …
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Pivotal case against UK fossil fuel project gets its day in the Supreme Court
A legal challenge against an onshore oil project in Horse Hill, Surrey will be heard in the Supreme Court on 21 and 22 June. The years-long case challenges Surrey County Council’s failure …
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Are low-traffic neighbourhoods greenwashing? Here’s what the evidence says
Since the pandemic, a series of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) have been installed across the UK. LTNs are designed to curtail car use in residential streets and promote active modes of travel such …
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US: Renewable group shifts position, shakes up hydrogen debate
One of the nation’s largest renewable trade groups unveiled revised recommendations Thursday on how “green” hydrogen emissions should be counted under the Inflation Reduction Act, highlighting the challenge facing the …
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Net zero targets among world’s largest companies double, but credibility gaps undermine progress
Bonn, 12th June 2023: The globally-agreed mission to curtail climate change will be impossible unless national & sub-national governments and the largest companies urgently strengthen their targets, reports the Net Zero …
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India’s central bank sets a vision for a net-zero economy
India’s goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2070 raises important questions for policymakers regarding potential risks to the financial system and necessary policy reforms. These concerns are particularly relevant …
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Glencore a big winner of Germany’s Colombian coal binge
The German and Colombian governments both have detailed decarbonization strategies to take on climate change. Still, the real beneficiary of this green transition is actually based in Switzerland. Almost a year …
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