Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems
Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heat waves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.
Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heat waves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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The emissions pathways of most companies in high-emitting sectors are not aligned with the climate targets of the Paris Agreement. To better contribute to national and global sustainability efforts, corporate behavior must ...
Economics & Business
Dec 6, 2023
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With 2023 confirmed to be the hottest year on record by Europe's climate monitor, the temperature was also rising Wednesday on negotiators thrashing out the thorny issue of fossil fuels at COP28 in Dubai.
Environment
Dec 6, 2023
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It has taken decades, but the complex and increasingly urgent issue of "climate mobility" has gradually become central to international climate negotiations.
Environment
Dec 5, 2023
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The relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, and it has been unstable and sometimes under extreme stress in recent years. But a recent meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2023
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Writing in the journal Nature ahead of COP28, a team of Met Office scientists has emphasized that—surprisingly—there is currently no formally agreed way of defining the current level of global warming relevant to the ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
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In 2015, more than 140 countries signed up to the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. For countries in the global south this is a huge task. On the one hand, they have committed to low emissions. On the other their ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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A new study has made a compelling case for significantly expanding rail infrastructure in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LICs and LMICs), in order to reach climate goals and provide economic benefits.
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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As global temperatures records are smashed and greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs, a new report from the UN Environment Programme finds that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5°C–2.9°C ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a report with an unusually strong title for a UN body: "Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record—Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)". ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2023
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