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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. It has sensitive ecological and climatic systems and we have to monitor those systems.” . “We

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

The average level of atmospheric CO2 for the month of December 2019 at Mauna Loa was 411.76 That means we are less than 39 ppm below what is considered to be the redline of 450 ppm (Climate Change Research Centre [CCRC], 2007). An IPCC report (2018) indicates that all remaining gas and coal fired power plants need CCS technology.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. A decade later, in 2005 and 2007, EU heads of government would confirm this path. ” Key to this were the IPCC’s Second (1995), Third (2001) and Fourth (2007) Assessment Reports. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” C: the Closing Window.

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