International Agencies & Studies
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CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDrive to 1.5Energy Access & EquityEnergy SubsidiesEuropeFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesOil & Gas
Global Development Banks’ Recovery Plans Must Omit Fossil Funding, Advocates Say
When 450 global development banks with their hands on US$2 trillion in public funds meet in November to chart their contribution to the pandemic ... -
SolarAid Raises $300,000 for Remote Clinics in Malawi and Zambia
London, UK-based international charity SolarAid has raised more than US$300,000 to supply thousands of free solar-powered devices to medical professionals fighting the coronavirus pandemic ... -
ICAO Changes Carbon Offset Rules, Gives Airlines a ‘Three- to Six-Year Free Pass to Pollute’
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) handed international airlines a concession valued at about US$15 billion last week, by agreeing to scale back the ... -
Air & MarineAuto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon-Free TransitionDrive to 1.5Energy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingOil & GasShale & FrackingSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Global Oil Demand, CO2 Emissions Likely Peaked in 2019 as Fossil Analysts Predict More Stranded Assets
A small parade of analysts stepped out last week with projections that global oil demand and carbon dioxide emissions likely peaked last year, with ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionDemand & EfficiencyDemographicsFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHealth & SafetyInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesUnited States
U.S. Dominican Nuns Raise $130 Million for ‘Holistic’ Climate Solutions Fund
Five years after Pope Francis delivered his acclaimed encyclical calling for environmental and climate justice, 16 congregations of Dominican nuns in the United States ... -
Week 26, June 29: Global Engagement
Unless every nation pulls its weight, global emissions will continue to rise and the climate emergency will cause an ever more disastrous future. -
Carbon-Free TransitionHealth & SafetyInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
U.S. Survey Shows Rising Concern Over Climate Health Risks
The past six years have left many more Americans believing the climate crisis brings increasing risk of physical harm from severe storms, flooding, heat ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageCarbon-Free TransitionFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingOil & GasSolarWind
Goldman Sachs See Renewable Investment Surging While Fossils Pay Huge Risk Premium
With global fossils paying the equivalent of a US$40 to $80 per ton carbon price to compensate for the heightened risk investors see in ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementEuropeInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingMethaneSupply Chains & Consumption
Carbon Pollution from World’s Top 13 Dairy Companies Equals UK’s
Emissions from the world’s top 13 dairy companies now equal that of the entire United Kingdom, while overproduction is driving small farmers into bankruptcy. ... -
BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionDemand & EfficiencyDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingSolarWind
Next Six Months Will Determine Success of Green Recovery, IEA Warns
The world’s governments can either spend the next three years and US$3 trillion entrenching the greenhouse gas emission cuts that accompanied the pandemic lockdown ... -
Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Heat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & Studies
Climate Models for Upcoming UN Report Show ‘Incredibly Alarming’ Risk of Runaway Warming
The climate community and the general public are in for some “incredibly alarming” worst-case scenarios as modelling for the United Nations’ next major climate ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCoalDemand & EfficiencyDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy Access & EquityEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationHydrogenInternational Agencies & StudiesOil & GasTransit
Government Stimulus Packages Lock In Fossil Growth, Squander Opportunity for Green Recovery, Global Assessment Warns
Too many governments are squandering the opportunity to build a green recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, directing dollars to technologies that ... -
Environmental Funds Go ‘Mainstream’, with Better Results than Traditional Investments
Environmentally sustainable funds have outperformed traditional investments—not only during the economic crunch brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the 10 years previous, ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionEuropeForests & DeforestationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatorySupply Chains & Consumption
Unilever Vows to ‘Zero Out’ Emissions by 2039, Put Climate Labels on 70,000 Products
Consumer goods giant Unilever NV has vowed to “zero out” its operating emissions—and those of its suppliers—by 2039, and to keep itself accountable by ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesFood SecurityForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryOceansOil & GasSub-National Governments
Week 24, June 15: Ecological Restoration
We face an ecological as well as a climate emergency. Because of our human influence, Earth is in the midst a mass extinction crisis: ...
