BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 22 (TNStalk) -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing many of the world's largest companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and other global sustainability challenges, issued the following statement on Nov. 21, 2022: * * * As the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 27) ends, Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber reacts to the final agreement. "At COP27, the issue of helping small developing   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Insight white paper on the rail labor dispute and work stoppages (No. IF11409) on Nov. 21, 2022, by transportation policy analyst Ben Goldman: * * * On August 16, 2022, a three-person Emergency Board appointed in July by President Biden issued its recommendations to resolve a labor dispute affecting over 100,000 employees of six major railroads and many smaller ones. The two sides reached a tentative agreem  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (TNStalk) -- Foreign Policy for America issued the following agency statement on Nov. 21, 2022: * * * Two weeks of intense negotiations delivered a first-of-its-kind outcome at COP27 - an international agreement establishing a fund to address climate-related loss and damage. This represents a long overdue but transformational act to confront the tremendous costs borne by those who have contributed the least to climate change. Now the critical work of operationalizing and ca  more

EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut, Nov. 22 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement regarding Republicans' plans for Social Security. "Republicans continue to let us in on their dangerous plans for Social Security," said Larson. "In his recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-gop-midterms-election-fraud-voter-suppression-inflation-coal-energy-gas-climate-change-nati  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, ENR Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) sent a letter to Senate appropriators calling for $25 million in FY2023 funding for the Carbon Materials Science Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The initiative   more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Nov. 22 (TNStalk) -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2022: * * * "For two weeks, global leaders and negotiators have been in Sharm El-Sheikh to advance policies with the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius and building a more resilient world. Eleventh-hour progress on the thorny issues of Loss and Damage funding, and the Article 6 guidance on carbon markets, was enough to keep the goal of +1.5C alive for now - but only  more

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Nov. 22 -- The Global Reporting Initiative issued the following news: The draft work program of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which will guide GRI standard setting activities over the next three years, has been made available for public comment. Covering priorities from 2023 until 2025, alongside a project schedule for next year, global stakeholders are asked to provide their input to the proposed GSSB Work Program, with a consultation period now  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter to Senate appropriators calling for $25 million in FY2023 funding for the Carbon Materials Science Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The initiative was enacted to research converting coal and coal waste into raw materials necessary for advanced technologies and   more

BONN, Germany, Nov. 21 (TNSrpt) -- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change issued the following news release on Nov. 20, 2022: The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 closed today with a breakthrough agreement to provide "loss and damage" funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. "This outcome moves us forward," said Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary. "We have determined a way forward on a decades-long conversation on funding  more

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 21 -- The United Nations issued the following statement on Nov. 20, 2022, by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the conclusion of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: * * * I thank our hosts -- the Egyptian Government and the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change President Sameh Shoukry -- for their hospitality. I also want to recognize Simon Stiell  more