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Saudi Arabia echoes “Business as usual” as a key COP28 argument

A Greener Life

But to be able to cut emissions on a meaningful scale using this technology you would need thousands and thousands of projects established. The CCS technology is in its infancy, and not able to capture the full output of emissions from an industrial activity such as a power plant.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.8.24

PA Environment Daily

. -- Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Editorial: When A Current Conventional Oil & Gas Operator Buys Wells They Assume All The Liabilities, While Not Passing Costs Of Plugging To Taxpayers; State Could Pay Some (..)

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Latest IPCC Report Urges Us To Act On Climate Change

Edouard Stenger

We have seen it time and again, it’s not a technological problem, it’s an economical and sociological one. We have our work cut out for us and what we will collectively do in the next five years will define the climate for the next 50 if not 500 years. As climate scientist say, every tonne of greenhouse gases counts.

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More frequent El Niño events predicted by 2040

A Greener Life

ENSO is so influential that climate scientists have dedicated decades to tracking and predicting its irregular cycles. Researchers are also studying how ENSO will be affected by climate change. Modelling a future of more frequent extremes.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?

A Greener Life

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

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Big Oil can’t increase production and pretend it’s part of the climate solution

Enviromental Defense

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions? degrees , the “safe” threshold for global warming.