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UN picks anti-greenwash squad – Climate Weekly

April 1, 2022
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Ban the UN from naming issues. I’m critical.

The Excessive-Stage Skilled Group on the Internet-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities must be a frontrunner for the worst jargon award of 2022. Worse, the press launch proposes shortening it to HLEG, essentially the most generic and redundant a part of the entire clunky formulation. Has there ever been a low-level knowledgeable group?

Which is a disgrace, as a result of it’s an vital initiative. As company web zero pledges proliferate, a lot of them stretching the “web” to breaking level, there may be an pressing want for rigorous, impartial requirements.

Enter Catherine McKenna, the Canadian former minister named to move up the UN’s anti-greenwash unit. The bullshit busters. The online zero flagbearers.

Nicely, let’s not get carried away. The group of 16 consultants from around the globe is barely going to develop and promote requirements, not identify and disgrace large companies that flout them.

McKenna is extensively revered as a champion of company local weather motion. However she additionally took half in a authorities that purchased an oil pipeline somewhat than inform the trade to maintain that oil within the floor.

The Trudeau Administration continues to keep away from confrontation with the oil and gasoline sector, whereas Canada’s emissions – uniquely amongst G7 nations – rise.

Nonetheless, H-leg deserves a greater identify. Ship us your strategies.

This week’s information…

Caught within the mud

After two weeks of negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, a worldwide pact to guard and restore nature seems to be as distant as ever.

China and Russia are resisting language on human rights and no new date has been set for the long-delayed Kunming summit to finalise a deal.

GCF tightens belt

The UN’s flagship local weather fund may need to scale down its challenge approvals because the US fails to ship on its overdue pledges.

Whereas the Inexperienced Local weather Fund has had its issues, campaigners again it as an important channel for help to growing nations. US stinginess doesn’t go down properly.

Supply: Climate Change News

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