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For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

Grist

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

Some of the criticism was interesting and arguably justified - it is true the film had little to say about the world outside America and by extension matters of climate justice; for me, the decision to abort the attempt to save the world felt implausibly nihilistic. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6 And it gets worse.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Sea Ice extent is going down. Lot’s of Methane.

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How green hydrogen could completely reshape the global energy map

Business Green

And given the potential of hydrogen produced from renewable energy - known as green hydrogen - to follow a similarly swift cost-reduction trajectory to that of wind and solar in the coming years, its economic and political impacts could be monumental.