An international treaty on climate change adopted by 196 governments at the COP21 summit in Paris in 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Signatories agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the global average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels, and to pursue a goal of 1.5 degrees C.
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27 July 2026
On 17th July, the European Commission unveiled its much-anticipated legislative proposal to overhaul the EU’s compliance carbon market, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).
23 July 2026
Know Your Client is a security procedure used in the financial sector when contracting to do business with a new counterparty.
14 July 2026
A type of carbon offset project that protects forests against deforestation or degradation, and thereby earns carbon credits by reducing emissions compared...
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