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Inspiring equitable transitions from fossil fuels after Covid-19

The fossil fuel production gap – the difference between national production plans and low-carbon (1.5°C and 2°C) pathways, as expressed in fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will continue to widen if countries return to their pre-COVID plans and projections for expanded fossil fuel production. Alternatively, strong green recovery efforts could put future fossil fuel production on a pathway much closer to Paris Agreement limits.

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Stockholm Environment Institute

December 7, 2022

India Chases Clean Energy, but Economic Goals Put Coal First

In the shadow of a retired coal-fired power plant in India’s capital, Meena Devi tries to make her family home — four brick walls with a tin roof — a safe place to breathe. Though the smokestacks at the plant went dormant years ago under a court order, there is no shortage of hazards in her air, ranging from vehicular exhaust to construction dust to ash from crop stubble burning in adjacent states.

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The New York Times

December 7, 2022

Traité international sur la pollution plastique : toutes les options sont sur la table (in French)

La première session de négociations sur le futur traité concernant la pollution plastique a permis un large passage en revue des options possibles. Sur le plan procédural, toutes les questions n'ont pas pu être tranchées.

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Actu-Environnement

December 5, 2022

L’économie, première victime de la pénurie d’énergie de 2023 (in French)

Qui sera frappé par la crise énergétique l’an prochain? Tous? Personne? Au Club de la presse ce lundi, aiguillonnés par Pierre Ruetschi, Christian Brunier, directeur des SIG, Peter Wooders, ancien directeur énergie de l’International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), le député PLR Adrien Genecand, et le vice-président des Verts, Julien Nicolet-dit-Félix, se sont livrés au petit jeu des pronostics lors d’une table ronde portant sur la crise et la question du retour du nucléaire.

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Tribune de Genève

December 5, 2022

Sortir de la dictature du PIB (in French)

Et si introduire de nouvelles mesures qui prennent en compte la qualité de vie permettait de mieux relever les défis environnementaux auxquels nous faisons face ? La réflexion est entamée.

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Le Devoir

December 3, 2022

Fish Forward is here to help

It has been an interesting two weeks since my last column with some good and bad news mixed in. On the good news front I was invited last week to attend the launch of a new organization called Fish Forward. The name itself had me intrigued since we already have a non-profit in Manitoba named Fish Futures. I was even on the original board when it formed in 1989.

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Winnipeg Free Press

December 3, 2022

Governments are subsidizing the destruction of nature even as they promise to protect it

When dignitaries from 196 countries converge in Montreal next week to rub shoulders and hash out a new global agreement to save nature, money will be on the agenda.

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The Narwhal

December 1, 2022

Shura attends preparatory meeting for Parliamentary Summit against Hunger

Doha: The Shura Council participated yesterday in the meeting that was held by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in cooperation with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in preparation for the convention of the 2nd Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition, which is scheduled to convene next year.

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The Peninsula

December 1, 2022

COMMENTARY: COP27 shows Higgs is out of touch with reality

The International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), and the UN Environmental Program issued separate reports with a common conclusion: limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires an immediate halt to new fossil fuel development.

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NB Media Co-op

November 29, 2022

Commerce des espèces menacées : la COP 19 prévoit de réglementer plus de 500 espèces supplémentaires (in French)

La 19e Conférence des parties à la Cites se termine sur un bilan plutôt positif en prévoyant de réglementer le commerce de plus de 500 espèces supplémentaires. Mais cela signifie aussi que le nombre d'espèces menacées augmente.

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November 28, 2022

Shifting the narrative on adaptation at COP27

At the "Adaptation COP" in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Adaptation Without Borders partnership led by SEI, ODI and IDDRI advanced the narrative that climate risk is a shared reality and adaptation must become a collective responsibility.

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Stockholm Environment Institute

November 28, 2022

Trevor Hancock: Why can't we use the 'F' words?

Last week, COP27 ended with ­agreement by all the countries in the world on the Sharm el-Sheikh ­Implementation Plan. The good news is that it includes, finally, an agreement to establish a "loss and damage" fund through which the high-income ­countries will provide funding and technical ­support to developing countries damaged by climate change.

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Times Colonist

November 27, 2022

Massutrotning på agendan efter COP27 (in Swedish)

Klimatdiskussionerna fortsätter på ännu ett stort möte, nu handlar det om biologisk mångfald. Ska vi käka benig fisk för klimatets skull? Och internationella experter tror att fossilanvändningen snart minskar.

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Svenska Dagbladet

November 25, 2022

Analysing India’s climate policy and the route post-COP27

As the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitting country, India is often criticised by the international community. However, it justifies itself by stating its minuscule per capita emissions and low historical emissions as compared to the developed world. This analysis explores whether India is playing its role in tackling one of the world's most pressing issues.

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Observer Research Foundation

November 25, 2022

COP 27 Dispatch: Climate hope is alive, but tough choices ahead

If you believe in an equitable response to the climate crisis, the hope is still alive, but the hard decisions are still to come. At COP 27, there was a promise of funding for loss and damage, but the equitable phase out of all fossil fuels remained elusive. This is unbalanced and thus doomed. Think about it: the more fossil fuels burned, the more loss and damage and adaptation costs we face.

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Sudbury.com

November 25, 2022

Indonesia's JETP Deal Will Only Succeed if Coupled with Radical Measures to Unblock Renewable Energy Pipeline

At the G20 Summit in Bali, a group of developed countries—led by the United States of America and Japan—pledged to mobilize US$20 billion (around Rp300 trillion) over the next 3-5 years to accelerate Indonesia’s energy transition through early retirement of coal power plants and deployment of renewable energy. The flood of new finance for renewable energy under the so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership agreement (JETP) is certainly welcome—but unless the critical barriers to renewable energy deployment in Indonesia are addressed, the deal will fail to deliver.

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Tempo

November 24, 2022

Carbon trading: A tool for reconciliation or colonization?

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger’s home community of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is in what she calls a “sacrifice zone.” The nation borders the oil production epicentre of Canada: the oilsands, which leak toxic chemicals and wreak havoc on local ecosystems.

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Canada's National Observer

November 23, 2022

COP27 ends with historic compensation fund to address climate change-induced disasters- Key details

COP27: The UN climate summit agreed to set up a "transitional committee' to decide how the money will be provided and who will contribute to the fund. Its recommendations will be discussed at COP28 next year.

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Zee News

November 21, 2022

Egypt summit decides to set up a fund for climate catastrophes, no other progress

After resisting it for years, the developed world finally caved in on the issue of loss and damage at the UN climate summit in Egypt, agreeing to the longstanding demand by vulnerable countries to establish a fund to pay for climate disasters that have been brought on by global warming.

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Mongabay-India

November 21, 2022

The world waited far too long for this, says India after COP27 ends with historic compensation fund

The UN climate summit in Egypt concluded on Sunday with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage, but the outcome on other crucial issues such as India's call for phasedown of all fossil fuels reflected little progress.

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Business Insider India

November 21, 2022