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Emissions Should Be Plummeting. Instead, They’re Breaking Dangerous New Records
Next week, world leaders will head to Dubai for the Conference of the Parties—the United Nations’ annual climate meeting—to finalize the first “global stocktake,” assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement’s goals. The UN Environment Programme is not mincing words about how far from those goals nations are. Today, ahead of COP28, it is releasing a […]
Pandemic Lockdowns Did Cut Air Pollution—however With a Catch
Last April, as individuals world wide sheltered in place towards the Covid-19 pandemic, The Indian Express newspaper published a photo that had gone viral on Twitter, displaying a barely hazy deep blue sky over Uttar Pradesh, essentially the most populous state in northern India. Above a backyard trellis, the angular, white peaks of the Himalayan […]
In Europe, Backlash Heats Up Over Garbage Incinerators
What’s extra, Vähk warned, the EU’s purpose for international locations to landfill not more than 10 p.c of municipal waste by 2035 will unintentionally bolster incinerators’ attraction. “There’s a lot of pressure on minimizing landfill,” he mentioned. That’s worrying, “because we don’t want to move from landfilling to incineration.” It all comes because the EU […]
How Steel Might Finally Kick Its Coal Habit
This story initially appeared on Grist and is a part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Coal’s grip on the worldwide electrical energy sector is loosening as extra utilities and corporations spend money on renewable power. But one main coal client—the metal trade—is discovering it tougher to kick its behavior. Steel corporations make practically 2 billion […]
What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
This story initially appeared on Grist and is a part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, Burlington, Vermont, the birthplace of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and the stomping grounds of Senator Bernie Sanders, introduced that it had reached an energy milestone. The metropolis of 42,000, which hugs the shore of Lake Champlain, produced […]
Can the Paris Agreement Still Avert Climate Chaos?
Laurence Tubiana, France’s high diplomat on the talks, stated one other key innovation was what she termed “360-degree diplomacy.” That means not simply working by means of the usual authorities channels, with ministerial conferences and chats amongst officers, however reaching out far past, making companies, native authorities and metropolis mayors, civil society, teachers, and residents […]