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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The text of the agreement is actually a little loose. It says the Agreement aims to hold global-average heating “well below 2.0 Q: So, what happened with global temperatures in 2023?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 27, 2024
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The IEA World Energy Outlook 2023 , International Energy Agency’s annual report, which makes clear that without concerted action, current global energy choices are causing us to hurtle toward a 2.4˚C The first-ever Global Stocktake COP28 also marks the culmination of the first-ever Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement.
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
Guest Post by Kathryn Moore , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Cloud formation in the atmosphere requires aerosols To form a water droplet in the atmosphere, water vapor molecules, floating around as a gas, need to stick together. So how do we have clouds if water isn’t condensing?
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.
Law Columbia
MAY 8, 2024
In fact, the impact assessment supporting the Commission’s proposed 2040 target suggests that the EU may need to remove up to 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually by 2040, and significantly more to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.
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