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COP28 Global Methane Pledge Efforts Still Not Enough

Union of Concerned Scientists

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Last year I wrote how current efforts were insufficient and still ignored the largest anthropogenic methane source— agriculture — and unfortunately, this remains true today.

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Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country

Legal Planet

Jakarta is consistently near the top end of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas.

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Climate impacts of the #IRA

Real Climate

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 The study focused on the member states of the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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We Need an Agreement to Phase out Fossil Fuels at COP28

Union of Concerned Scientists

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. Particulate matter (PM2.5)

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How Post-War Justice Strategies Can Be Applied to the Climate Crisis  

Union of Concerned Scientists

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.