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Subscribe on LinkedIn to be notified of each new Daily Update—a curated selection of essential intelligence on financial markets and the global economy from S&P Global. When China announced to the United Nations in September that the world’s most pollutant economy intends to become carbon neutral by 2060, President Xi Jinping’s target was greeted with both praise and skepticism. Because China accounts for roughly 30% of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions, the country would have to confront a total transformation of its economy to achieve its goal. Since then, China has increas...

Carbon emission cut during pandemic but not enough to limit climate change India's continued expansion of fossil fuels could defeat solutions and sustainable development gains A number of global climate reports released recently have pointed to a “record drop” in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2020 because of reduced economic activities caused by the pandemic. The reports, however, have warned that the world is still heading towards a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century unless ...

The global COVID-19 lockdowns caused fossil carbon dioxide emissions to decline by an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 - a record drop according to researchers at Future Earth's Global Carbon Project.

COVID Lockdowns Reduce Global Emissions By An Incredible 7% How Long Until You Are Told WHEN You Can Drive?

UNDP launch the 30th Anniversary Human Development Report: the unprecedented turning point of the ‘Age of Humans’ Published on 11 December 2020 On Tuesday 15 December, the 2020 Human Development report will be published by the UNDP on ‘Widening horizons for people and planet: human development and the Anthropocene’. It considers the current era as the next frontier for human development where instead of the planet shaping humans, humans are reshaping the planet. This raises fundamental questions on what humanity should do to navigate this new age an...