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Tortuous progress: Key takeaways from COP28

Envirotec Magazine

“It’s simply not true that to stop global warming we have to stop using fossil fuels: what we have to do is stop dumping the carbon dioxide they generate into the atmosphere.” “All Kusile Power Station, South Africa: The deal reserves a role for “transitional fuels” – widely interpreted to mean natural gas.

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Prevention: A profitable mindset when it comes to gas leaks

Envirotec Magazine

CFCs have a high chlorine content and have been linked strongly to ozone depletion and global warming. HCFCs were considered an improvement when they were first introduced, as they have lower chlorine and make a lesser contribution to ozone depletion and global warming. Green hydrogen. It is flammable and easily ignited.

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

Grist

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 Nature (2021). The future of natural gas is a bit more complicated. degrees Celsius (2.7 Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5C

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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit

Renewable Energy World

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

Grist

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 Small-island states will be teetering on the brink of destruction; heat waves in the Middle East and Africa will be lasting and intense.

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'Confidence boosting': How recent climate pledges have put 2C Paris Agreement goal within reach

Business Green

Moreover, under CAT's 'optimistic scenario' - which assumes full implementation of net zero targets set by countries that have set or are considering such goals - global warming could be limited to as low as 2C, for the first time bringing the world's decarbonisation trajectory within the threshold target of the Paris Agreement.

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The future of fossil fuels could be decided in Dubai

The Verge: Energy

A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course. And yet the Paris Agreement manages to omit the words coal, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuels.