You Can Change The (Polluting) Shipping Industry By Switching To Renewables
The shipping industry burns the world’s dirtiest fuel to move cargoes and passengers around the world. That will soon change.
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Carbon Capture’s Global Investment Would Have Been Better Spent On Wind & Solar
Each year we are building wind and solar capacity that will displace roughly 9,000 million tons of CO2, over 100 times the total global carbon capture history. IPCC reliance on carbon capture is misplaced.
Science Based Targets Initiative Announces Updates In Line With IPCC Special Report On 1.5°C
The Science Based Targets initiative announced on Wednesday that it was rolling out new updates to its target validation criteria to enable companies to set greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in line with the latest science enshrined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, published in October 2018.
Coal Giant Glencore Announces Plan To Cap Coal Production At Current Levels
One of the world’s largest coal miners, Glencore, announced on Wednesday that it plans to cap its coal production capacity to current levels and is developing long-term targets in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Key To The Success Of The Paris Agreement? A Clean Energy Transition.
Two-thirds of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originate from the energy sector, and most of this is wasted. “We don’t need more, we need better.”
Climate Action Can No Longer Wait
For over 30 years, a coalition of fossil fuel companies and their supporters – politicians as well as businesses who gain from maintaining the status quo – have been fighting the scientific community and their environmental supporters in the battle for and against climate change.
COP24: People Power Versus Carbon Bombs
Despite warnings from the latest IPCCC report on the emergency to transition to clean energy, new fossil fuel infrastructure projects threaten global climate safety.
Oceans Are Warming 40% Faster Than Predicted
The latest research shows ocean temperatures are rising faster than predicted just 5 years ago. Should we be concerned?
Climate Policy In 2018 Centers On IPCC Warning & Continued Global Growth
As the year draws to a close it is only natural to look back at what has been, and forward at what might be. This is doubly important for the global clean energy industry and the policies which support its efforts to combat climate change and enact the core target of the Paris Climate Agreement.
COP24 Begins To Devolve As Key Countries Block IPCC 1.5 Report
The 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as COP24, currently underway in Katowice, Poland, is quickly beginning to devolve into chaos after two key aspects of negotiations have incensed participants and observers alike and left any potential unanimity more fragile than when we began.
