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The COP28 Halftime Report

Legal Planet

So have the many , many announcements and initiatives concerning new efforts to reduce methane emissions from the waste sector, agricultural operations, and oil and gas facilities that leak and vent the potent greenhouse gas. Second, and by contrast an area of significant continued disagreement, concerns the Global Stocktake.

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Future Shock

Legal Planet

The Paris agreement calls for capping warming as near as possible to 1.5° term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” Most of that discussion was at a very general level. It’s worth taking a closer look at some key findings and their policy implications. for avoiding dangerous warming. C in the near?

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Better policy monitoring required to underpin decarbonisation

Environmental Europe

The success of the Paris Agreement depends on the effective monitoring of climate policy measures. The signatories of the 2015 Paris Agreement not only agreed to limit global warming to well below two degrees, but each country also put forward concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gases and secure financial support.

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Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats “uncertain and unreliable”

Frontiers

Lead author Dr Phil Williamson, honorary reader in UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, said: “We have looked into the processes involved in carbon removal and there are just too many uncertainties.

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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

Legal Planet

They include, but are not limited to, altering rainfall and monsoon patterns, damaging the ozone layer, increasing global conflicts, and – most unacceptable of all – giving political cover for fossil fuel industries to continue polluting rather than cut greenhouse gas emissions. If we overshoot the 1.5

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

Methane is essential to control, since stabilizing climate requires reducing all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions to net-zero. Methane also has indirect effects on heating, due to chemical interactions by which methane changes the levels of other greenhouse gases. Isn’t this an Environmental Law blog? microns).

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Frontiers is gearing up for COP28 to address the climate emergency 

Frontiers

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. Embracing Open Science for the Climate Crisis: Collaborative Solutions for a Resilient Future The session will explore how various disciplines and stakeholders are navigating new frontiers of open science in the context of the climate crisis.