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CLEANaction Coalition champions protection of nature while renewable infrastructure scales up

[ad_1] Our world is in the midst of a growing a climate crisis. To help solve it, we must rapidly transform our global energy system from one reliant on fossil fuels to one powered by renewable energy. Changing our energy system is crucial to reduce emissions and protect people and nature from the worst impacts […]

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European Court of Human Rights decision on climate change welcomed

[ad_1] (GLAND, Switzerland) 9 April 2024 – Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a group of older women from Switzerland – the Klima Seniorinnen – who had brought the case arguing that their human rights were violated because their government had not done enough to tackle climate change. The Court

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Assessing corporate climate transition disclosures with AI

[ad_1] Many frameworks have been suggested to assess transition plans’ ambition, credibility, and feasibility. However, the lack of one clear reference framework paves the way for inconsistencies in transition plans and the risk of greenwashing. This working paper, produced and published by the University of Zürich and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment,

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CDP-WWF Temperature Scoring Methodology

[ad_1] Then join WWF and CDP’s public consultation for the updated open-source CDP-WWF Temperature Scoring Methodology (version 1.5) and contribute to the development and update of the method. What does the methodology do? The CDP-WWF Temperature Scoring method enables measurement of a financial portfolio’s, a company’s, or a company value chain’s contribution to global warming.

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Sign reading 'Earth is more valuable than money' at a climate protest outdoors.

International Court of Justice climate ruling should include legal duty to protect climate-stabilizing biodiversity

[ad_1] GLAND, Switzerland (16 July 2024): WWF has made a submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contribute to the formation of their advisory opinion on climate change. WWF’s submission emphasizes that countries also have a legal duty to protect and restore biodiversity, in addition to the obligation to tackle the climate crisis,

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SUSREG 2024: progress on climate in banking and insurance supervision but nature loss remains neglected despite dangerous “tipping” points

[ad_1] With the launch of its SUSREG assessment 2024 today, WWF´s Greening Financial Regulation Initiative (GFRi) urges the financial regulatory sector to take faster, collective action in the face of increasing nature loss that may trigger irreversible “tipping points”. The WWF Living Planet Report 2024 indicates a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of

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Emissions Gap: 1.5oC pathway rapidly slipping away due to climate inaction

[ad_1] (24 October 2024) – Unprecedented levels of climate ambition and action are required over the next five years if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5oC, according to the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2024. The report shows that current government plans and the pace of implementation are predictedto result in

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Emissions soaring and climate action stalling warns two major reports ahead of COP29

[ad_1] (Monday 28 October): Two major new climate reports present a double warning to the world. Greenhouse gas concentrations have surged to a new record in 2023 according to the World Meteorological Organization. At the same time, the UN’s NDC Synthesis report shows that current national climate plans would see emissions drop by just 2.6%

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