Business Green
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1.
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The latest report from the Energy Transitions Commission has set out a roadmap for how the world can move on to a 1.5C warming trajectory over the course of the coming decade. The US and EU are planning to launch a Global Methane Pledge at COP26 which has already won the backing of several other nations, including the UK.
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Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). In addition, globally, over 22,000 companies disclosed environmental data – with a focus on business emissions – to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the same year.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 11, 2022
In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.
Business Green
APRIL 4, 2022
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
Business Green
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. SDG 15 to the rescue?
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