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Brazil Restoration & Bioeconomy Finance Coalition Launched to Mobilize $10 Billion for Forest Conservation and Bioeconomy by 2030

MANAUS, Brazil--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, on the margins of the G20, a group of public and private sector leaders launched the Brazil Restoration & Bioeconomy...

Global environmental activists protest against the gas industry during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan November 15, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Fragile countries make $20 billion climate finance push at COP29, letter says

"A flood situation in South Sudan or Somalia creates more catastrophe than it would in any other developing country."

Pumpjacks operate in a milo field, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Houston spew most greenhouse gas of world cities

One site in the Permian Basin, Texas, is by far the worst polluting site in the entire world.

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Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that

India currently imports over 95% of lithium-ion batteries as well as large amounts of nickel, cobalt and other rare earth minerals.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree speaks in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. In what's being billed as the result of "unprecedented" levels of collaboration between government, industry and Indigenous Peoples, the Northwest Territories will see $375 million flow into a fund that seeks to protect the environment and increase cultural revitalization in the region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Indigenous groups, government and industry launch $375M for conservation in Canada’s Northwest Territories

The fund being created in the Northwest Territories is the largest single investment in Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship in the territory.

Inger Andersen, Executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme speaks at the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
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Developing world faces multi-billion climate adaptation cash gap, U.N. report says

Developing nations need $359B yearly to adapt to climate change, yet funding in 2022 hit only $28B, a UNEP report shows.

FILE PHOTO: Damaged solar panels are seen after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo
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Renewable energy offers a cost and opportunity to insurance sector

Renewable energy insurance premiums have surged 20-40 per cent amid soaring claims from extreme weather, stressing insurers’ ESG roles.

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo
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COP29: What are the key issues at the UN climate summit in Baku?

COP29 in Baku aims to set new climate finance goals, address fossil fuel cuts, and define carbon market rules amid global tensions.

Steel anchors were rammed into the mountain to stop its summit collapsing (AFP)
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Austria’s Alpine refuges and trails crumble as climate warms

Experts say warmer temperatures across the Alps are accelerating glacier melt and thawing permafrost, the year-round ice that binds together giant slabs of...

FILE - A machine plants soybeans on a farm in a rural area of Sidrolandia, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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Brazilian state law overturns soy moratorium that helped curb Amazon deforestation

Mato Grosso ends incentives for the Soy Moratorium, challenging a key deforestation curb in Brazil’s Amazon since 2006.

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