COP25 media wrap up: day 4

. Brazil walks back from funding demand – stating it will still negotiate and won’t block everything if it doesn’t get 10billion of the 100billion (As their crazy Environmental Minister stated before)

. EU lawmakers announced tighter regulations on green bonds. There will now be 3 levels of “green-ness” that should make green investing more transparent, especially for the divestment movement

. EU is pushing to increase its 2050 and maybe even its 2030 targets, but it is currently not on track to meet its 40% reduction target for 2030 – proving that the low-hanging fruits of emissions cuts may have largely been picked already

. Private sector report highlighted that 285 companies have implemented Science Based Targets – with combined greenhouse gas pollution that totals more than that of France and Spain put together – collectively, the list which includes McDonalds, Nike and Pepsi have committed to cutting 265 million tonnes of emissions – 

. Interesting angle – 800,000 protested in France yesterday as part of ongoing protests from transport workers. Interestingly, during the protest the environmental group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for trashing 3,600 electric scooters across French cities by obscuring their QR codes; calling electric scooters “ecologically catastrophic”.