The European Climate Law turns the European Green Deal targets into legal obligations: reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and reaching climate neutrality by 2050. Climate neutrality will shape the EU’s green recovery and a socially just green transition.

"I've heard the American Jobs Plan should be about roads and bridges, but not address climate change, and I would compare that to drawing up plans for a restaurant with no consideration for health, safety or cleanliness. It's already inevitably a climate decision as well." United States Secretary Buttigieg, in his testimony today before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the American Jobs Plan

Catching up on podcasts, with a listen to the latest from Climate & Capital on how Norway got so green (with a necessary re-watching of the Will Farrell ad for EVs from earlier this year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCy-a_E2I3s, and response to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3JQa1ynDw)

Still Only One Earth: Lessons from 50 years of UN sustainable development policy. Over-exploitation of natural resources harms the health of ecosystems and the wellbeing of people.

China must shut down nearly 600 of its coal-fired power plants in the next 10 years, replacing them with renewable electricity generation, to meet its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060.

In case you missed it: this event 'Key Green Transitions: How Systems Are Changing for People and Planet' centered on the need to decarbonize key sectors of the economy that account for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including energy, transport and food systems.

Everyone deserves a sustainable future. But solutions are most urgently needed in developing countries, where the investment gap is deepest and people are most disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis.

'Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation Are Underfunded — But Offer Big Benefits'
Nature-based solutions are key to advancing climate adaptation. But despite these extensive benefits, new research finds that as little as 1.5% of all public international climate finance has gone to support nature-based solutions for adaptation in developing countries.