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Carbon prices must treble by 2030, $6.6trn investor coalition urges


Carbon prices must treble by 2030, $6.6trn investor coalition urges
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, whose members manage $6.6trn of assets, is warning that the world won t decarbonise rapidly enough to deliver the Paris Agreement without a radical overhaul of carbon pricing.
According to the paper, some 80% of global annual emissions are not covered by carbon pricing mechanisms
In a new discussion paper published today (6 July), the Alliance sets out its vision for transforming global carbon pricing mechanisms in line with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C trajectory. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the world will have the best chance of delivering this aim if net global emissions are halved by 2030 and brought to zero by 2050. ....

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Shell, BP, and Easyjet: The Big Polluters Designing the Rules for Voluntary Carbon Offsets


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Jan 22, 2021 @ 05:41
Many of the world’s most polluting companies are being handed a “get out of jail free” card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaigners claim.
The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is due to publish its “roadmap for implementation” on Wednesday, four months after it was launched by former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who is now a UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.
Carney’s group wants to hugely scale up the existing market, making it “large, transparent, verifiable and robust”. This, it claims, will help private corporations meet the UK’s net zero target by 2050, in line with Paris Agreement targets to limit the worst impacts of climate change by restricting global warming to 1.5C or “well below” 2C. ....

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