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One Last Climate Warning in New IPCC Report: ‘Now or Never’

Inside Climate News

Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to limit global warming close to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit), as targeted by the Paris Agreement, the report says. degrees Celsius (2.7

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

the year on which the 20-year period 2025-2044 is centred, as stated in Table 4.5 On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. 2 of the Paris Agreement as “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”.

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What Does COP28 Mean for the Private Sector?

Capaccio

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. NDCs must be updated every five years, and the next round is due to be presented at the beginning of 2025 before COP30 in Brazil. What’s Next?

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Election 2024: Climate Action vs. Radical Deregulation

Legal Planet

This agenda was facilitated by the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank that also has a dark money-fueled activist wing called Heritage Action —under the name Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project. The think tank has published this game plan ahead of presidential transitions since the 1980’s.)

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Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants

Frontiers

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C.

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.”

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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now?

Law Columbia

Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Court rendered an opinion almost 19 months after the submission of the request. What can we expect?