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Tax breaks kick Pakistan's electric car shift into higher gearSpurred on by hefty new tax exemptions for electric vehicle imports, an ambitious policy to cut carbon emissions and urban pollution is picking up speed. -
Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environment: UN reportAround 87 per cent of the US$540 billion in total annual government support given worldwide to agricultural producers includes measures that are price distorting and that can be harmful to nature and health.
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To accelerate climate action, start with mandating climate education in schoolsTo achieve its carbon targets, Malaysia should work on a decarbonisation task force and mandatory climate education among other solutions, urged experts. -
Cut poverty and energy use to cool the climateTo cut poverty and energy use would cool the planet, build a more just society — but end dreams of economic growth.
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How to avert a climate catastrophe– Global efforts involving awareness-raising, nudging, and shaming are necessary but not sufficient to prevent a climate crisis. Addressing the problem more effectively requires international governance arrangements that amount to a new social contract on global public goods. -
Combating Covid-19 and ensuring no-one is left behind– If the world wants to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalisation and regional cooperation. -
It's time for those who caused climate change to pay for it– Asking nations hit by storms to buy insurance against them is like making victims of car accidents—rather than drivers—pay the costs.
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EVs abroad, pickups at home– Automakers are touting overseas investments in electric vehicles, even as they lobby for lower fuel standards in the United States.
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Stop pretending, climate change is not fiction: Leonardo DiCaprio– At the UN Climate Summit, Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio delivered a stern message to government leaders, telling them to stop ignoring the reality of climate change. Watch his speech here:
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