Yale E360
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.
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Yale E360
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Oil, gas, and coal exports are not counted when countries tally their greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement. This allows wealthy nations to report progress on emissions reduction goals, while shipping their fossil fuels — and the pollution they produce — overseas. Read more on E360 →
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
This wasn’t the first of these summits – but it was the first one that focused on the concrete actions governments are taking to phase out fossil fuels. We heard world leader after world leader say what has been only an elephant in the room until now – that we must phase out fossil fuels. It’s not complicated.
NRDC
APRIL 23, 2024
Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.
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