2050 Fossil fuels Global warming Sea level rise 
Grist
APRIL 14, 2022
All 154 commitments included targets to cut emissions by 2030, and 76 included long-term targets stretching out to 2050 and beyond. The prime minister of Barbados, for instance, called 2 degrees of warming a “death sentence.”. The study assessed 154 pledges submitted by countries at the end of COP26. The difference between 1.5
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. She added, “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: Net zero by 2025.
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Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2021
Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 31, 2023
Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.
Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2021
Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C
Business Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, with temperature rise currently projected to overshoot the 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C
Business Green
MAY 23, 2022
Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.
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