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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 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” degrees.). “It

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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The IPCC Synthesis Report: Ten key takeaways for business

Business Green

Regardless of whether governments heed Guterres' advice, business leaders would be foolish to assume climate targets established in the early 2020s will age well as temperatures rise, extreme weather events intensify, and climate predictions become even more frightening. or the more dangerous 2C, the IPCC warned.

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. When I started on the commission, the first thing that came along was the model curriculum developed as a result of the Education and the Environment Initiative law. But humans have incredible ingenuity.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., They are our lighthouse.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).