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Working out how a capital city can be climate neutral by 2050
April 15th, 2013 by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Berlin aims to be climate neutral in the year 2050. A team of experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), on behalf of the Berlin Senate, the executive body governing the city of Berlin, will work to show how this goal can be achieved. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK director, said “if the German [...]
WWF report on EU achieving 100% renewable energy supply by 2050
February 14th, 2013 by WWF
The WWF has produced the report ‘Putting the EU on Track for 100% Renewable Energy‘, which shows where Europe needs to be by 2030 in order to reach a fully renewable energy system by 2050. It is comes just as the European Commission is beginning to consider post-2020 climate and energy plans. By 2030, the [...]
Current atmospheric C02 level must be reduced to protect coastal cities
January 3rd, 2013 by National Oceanography Centre
By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present of nearly 400 parts per million (ppm) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels. The [...]
OECD report looks at ways to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation
November 27th, 2012 by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Worldwide, 62 billion tons of natural resources – minerals, wood, metals, fossil and biomass fuels, and construction material – are extracted. On average, that’s almost 10 tons for every person on the earth. Of that, about one fifth ends up as waste and must be reused, recycled or disposed of in a way that is [...]
Energy & Climate Change Secretary hopes more countries will pledge at Doha to reduce carbon emissions
November 26th, 2012 by HM Government Department of Energy and Climate Change
Speaking in advance of the UNFCCC COP18 climate change negotiations in Doha, starting on Monday 26 November 2012, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey said “a global effort is needed if we are to achieve our climate goals – we need to pave the way for the new global deal while delivering more action [...]
Biggest barrier to tackling climate change threat is collective and individual failure of political will
November 25th, 2012 by WWF
Governments are falling far short of their commitment to keep global average temperature rise below the accepted 2°C goal, putting the world on the brink of climate catastrophe. The UN Environment Program’s Emissions Gap Report 2012 identifies a huge gap between current pledges to cut polluting greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 and the benchmark of [...]
World’s largest investors ask governments for ambitious climate and clean energy policy
November 24th, 2012 by European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Doha, it is clear that global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise, increasing the risk of dangerous and disruptive climate change. This letter is addressed to the governments of the world’s largest economies, in their roles as domestic policymakers, as important stakeholders in ongoing international negotiations [...]
Green economy provides way out of economic and environmental debt
November 22nd, 2012 by United Nations Environment Programme
Action on climate change needs to be scaled-up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance of keeping a global average temperature rise below 2° Celsius this century. The Emissions Gap Report, coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, and involving 55 scientists from more [...]
World Bank President says a 4°C warmer world must be avoided
November 20th, 2012 by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Humans’ emissions of greenhouse gases are breaking new records every year. These emissions are setting the atmosphere on a path towards an average 4°Celsius increase probably by 2100. This would cause risks beyond the experience of our civilization – including heat waves, especially in the tropics, a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, [...]
PWC shows that decarbonisation of global economy far too slow to limit global warming to 2° Celsius
November 5th, 2012 by PwC
The annual rate of reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP (or the carbon intensity of the economy) needed to limit global warming to 2°C, has passed a critical threshold according to new analysis from PwC. The carbon intensity of an economy is affected by a country’s fuel mix, energy efficiency, and the proportion [...]
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