By Jessica Corbett As a United Nations agency released new climate projections showing that the world is on track in the next five years to hit or surpass a key limit of the Paris agreement, authors of a new study warned Thursday that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is nearing a level not seen […]
By Jessica Corbett Even after the world’s largest economies adopted the landmark Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis in late 2015, governments continued to pour $77 billion a year in public finance into propping up the fossil fuel industry, according to a report released Wednesday. The new report, from Oil Change International and Friends […]
The U.K. government has proposed delaying the annual international climate negotiations for a full year after its original date to November 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The UNFCCC COP26, which was first delayed from November 2020 to early 2021, is the most important COP since world leaders met in Paris in 2015 because countries […]
The lockdowns imposed around the globe in response to the coronavirus pandemic led to a record drop in greenhouse gas emissions, according to research published in Nature Climate Change Tuesday. The researchers found that daily emissions fell by 17 percent during the height of quarantine measures in early April when compared with the same time […]
By Johnny Wood What does COVID-19 mean for the energy transition? While lockdowns have caused a temporary fall in CO2 emissions, the pandemic risks derailing recent progress in addressing the world’s energy challenges. The current state of the sector is described in the World Economic Forum’s Energy Transition Index 2020. It benchmarks the energy systems […]
Every country around the world would see economic gains from combating the climate crisis and trying to keep global heating within the bounds of the Paris agreement, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The straw man argument against taking action on the climate crisis is that the cost of limiting emissions and […]
The biodiversity loss caused by the climate crisis will be sudden and swift, and could begin before 2030. That’s the warning from a new study published in Nature Wednesday, which set out to determine how a variety of species and ecosystems would respond to rising temperatures over the course of the 21st century. “We found […]
With global air travel at a near standstill, the airline industry is looking to rewrite the rules it agreed to tackle global emissions. The Guardian reports that the airline is billing it as a matter of survival, while environmental activists are accusing the industry of trying to dodge their obligations. The governing body of the […]
The most important international climate talks since the Paris agreement was reached in 2015 have been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), originally scheduled for November of this year in Glasgow, the world’s nations were expected to up their emissions reduction pledges. Now, the conference is being pushed […]
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