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'We urgently need to prepare': Green figures react to the CCC's climate risk warning

Business Green

That is the stark conclusion of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which warns that these impacts from climate change in the UK are now inevitable, regardless of the success of decarbonisation through to 2050. It's time for bold action to cut carbon and reverse nature decline.".

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). O boy, was I triggered. million b/d in 1986.

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Republicans Grasp for Climate Credibility With Plan to Plant Trees

GreenTechMedia

Republican representatives unveiled the “Trillion Trees Act” on Wednesday, the first of what they are framing as a three-part climate plan expected to include later installments focused on clean energy and conservation. A newly created task force would monitor progress. or even 2 degrees, this is on the list.