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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The key question remains whether timing will allow these reports to inform the next UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST), expected to take place in 2028.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The key question remains whether timing will allow these reports to inform the next UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST), expected to take place in 2028.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

It’s also worth noting that local businesses use these tax credits for projects and investments that lessen greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health at the local level, and they now face the same restrictions and termination dates.) Commercial EVs. Geothermal and battery storage.

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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

These trends converged in Paris in 2015 when 195 countries signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to keep global temperatures from rising to more dangerous levels. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. EPA is renouncing its ability to even regulate greenhouse gases as a threat to human health.

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Statement in Response to New Hydrogen Handouts From the Federal Government

Enviromental Defense

Hydrogen is being presented as a key climate change solution because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas emissions. billion by 2028 and $17.7 Hydrogen’s global warming potential is 33 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. And it leaks a lot. billion by 2035.

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Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outline of a Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Since 2006, the IPCC has provided methodologies that governments around the world use to estimate their greenhouse gas emissions. The IPCC will issue a call for authors in the upcoming weeks with expected publication of the report in the second half of 2027.