Zero Breakthrough News Today

With less than a week until Christmas, edie recaps on a hugely busy year for sustainability stories, rounding up successes and failures in the global green recovery movement and reflecting on COP26.

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit. By fostering the fiction that others can be paid to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) instead, it undermines efforts to do so

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit. By fostering the fiction that others can be paid to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) instead, it undermines efforts to do so

COP26 in focus as UNGC gathers leaders at Nor-Shipping’s Ocean Now A broad spectrum of key ocean stakeholders will descend on Oslo, both digitally and physically, on 1 June to discuss how accelerating the move to sustainable ocean business can help the world deliver on the Paris Agreement. The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has teamed up with Nor-Shipping, which is running the Ocean Now initiative on 1-2 June, to host the “Driving Ambition for Shipping at COP26” panel debate. With f...

UN strategy paper sets strict 2030 AC energy efficiency targets Air conditioning systems are one of 20 priority areas for a new global strategy intended to begin realising short and long-term carbon reduction gains ahead of COP26 event  A global carbon reduction initiative has set a target of having one fifth of the world’s air conditioning equipment manufacturers offering affordable, more sustainable technologies for homes by 2025. The targets are among a number of commitments set out in an...