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Showing posts with label global. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global. Show all posts
Monday, January 15, 2024

Australia on track for 82 percent renewables target by 2030; IEA notes global acceleration in Renewables

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Looking at 2023 renewables achieved a 38.4 percent average share of the electricity grid in Australia. This puts Australia just about on tra...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

2023 set new global temperatures record at 1.48C anomaly above pre-industrial: Copernicus

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Last year, 2023, at 1.48C anomaly averaged over the whole year, came within a whisker of being 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. The E...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

70% chance that global greenhouse gas emissions start falling in 2024 if clean energy and EV trends continue.

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Ahead of the UN Climate Conference in Dubai, COP28, Climate Analytics researched when global greenhouse gas emissions may peak. There is a 7...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Emissions Gap Report 2023: Emissions dangerously increasing and heading for 2.9 degrees C global warming on current policies

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This is the 14th Emissions Gap Report. It is published ahead of the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Fram...
Friday, November 17, 2023

State of Climate Action Report 2023 finds World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions

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This is a major science based assessment of global efforts for climate action to reduce emissions. It found that Coal must be phased out sev...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Production Gap 2023 Report: Australia's disconnect on net zero emissions while expanding fossil fuel production

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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released the Global Production Gap Report on 8 November 2023. Governments in aggregate are pla...

Earth's hottest 12 month period with most of the temperature increase due to burning fossil fuels

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Analysis by climate scientists at Climate Central has highlighted we have just gone through the hottest 12 month period in recorded history ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Global Forests action failing says report with increase in deforestation in 2022 putting at risk 2030 Forests target

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In 2022, global gross deforestation reached 6.6 million hectares worldwide and was 21 percent higher than needed to eliminate deforestation ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Turning a corner on fossil fuels, but energy transition needs still to ramp up further to keep 1.5C alive says IEA

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its World Energy Outlook 2023 (IEA report)  Quick summary: Just based on current policy setti...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Climate Breakdown has begun warns UN Secretary General as world experiences hottest June-August period on record.

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You know things are serious  when the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres escalates the rhetoric. On 6th September he commented on the lat...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Climate signals: June 2023 heat records. We have a climate emergency

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Have you been watching earth's vital signs recently. I have. They are very concerning. But minimal mainstream reporting of all the signa...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Guest Post: Global carbon emissions at record levels with no signs of shrinking, new data shows. Humanity has a monumental task ahead

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  Marcin Jozwiak/Unsplash , CC BY Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East ...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Nitrogen Fertilizer Urea production Locking in Fossil Fuels greenhouse gas emissions for industrial Food production

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A new international report identifies Fossil Fuel fertilisers as an important growth area for coal and gas sectors  as part of the petroch...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Time to wake up to the climate emergency says Christina Figueres

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Extinction Rebellion and student climate strike movement civil disobedience actions receives support from Christiana Figueres to wake us u...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Paris Agreement Rulebook (mostly) delivered at COP24 but ambition still lacking

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Well The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice - COP24 - did give us a deal, it did provide the Paris Rulebook (mostly), bu...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Climate policies on the rise globally, but ambition level still lacking

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The latest assessment of country emissions and climate policies aggregated globally shows that there is still a substantial gap to meet, a...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Guest Post: Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high

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Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East Anglia ; Glen Peters , Center for International Climate and Environment Resea...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Ambitious plan to bend global emissions curve by 2020, while Australia continues Adani coal push

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At Google HQ in London an ambitious plan was launched by former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres to accelerate climate actio...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Guest Post: “We’ll always have Paris”

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This detailed, but succinct analysis of the United Nations climate conference at Marrakech, COP22, by the Heinrich Boll Foundation is well...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Guest Post: Global climate talks move to Marrakesh: Here's what they need to achieve

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As the Paris Agreement enters into force on November 4, 2016 this article provides a good summary of what the UN climate talks at Marrakec...