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Tackling Scope 3 emissions: the key to keeping 1.5°C alive

Envirotec Magazine

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint. degrees Celsius.

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AstraZeneca promises to get to net zero 10 years ahead of schedule

Business Green

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. pathway - first announced in 2015 - by more than a decade. The far-reaching strategy outlines plans to invest $1bn in achieving the goals.

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Can the world overshoot its climate targets — and then fix it later?

Grist

Scientists are documenting changes that are “much more widespread” and “much more negative,” she said, than anticipated for the 1.09 degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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EVs sales may be soaring, but are carmakers really on the road to net zero?

Business Green

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing. per cent of total oil demand.

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Water, Air and Land Nexus: A Safe Space for Preserving Climate and Achieving Food Security

Unsustainable

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Biofuels: An Environmental and Economic Catch 22?

R-Squared Energy

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C